News, March 18, 2025
Upcoming Events
Luis Valdovino and Daniel Boord: Special Screening Event
A Problem with the GPS
Selected Video Works by Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino
April 1, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
University of Colorado, Boulder
Sponsored by: The Art & Art History Department, The Brakhage Center for Media Arts and The Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media
Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino have been collaborating since 1990. Working at the fringes of art, ethnography, and documentary, they have invented their own form for their journeys: part travelogue, part essay, part scrapbook, and part poetry. They favor an open road, wandering through everyday life and feeling their way through cultural histories, visible “in the soil” but rapidly vanishing. For example, in Contigo we spend a Sunday afternoon in San Antonio listening to a song sung by the son of one of the pioneers of conjunto music. In Not Enough Night, past and present converge in Longmont, Colorado, on the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, as a small 1937 gas station, mentioned in the book, is moved to a new development in the suburbs. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen was prompted by the auctioning off of the largest antiquarian bookstore in the United States in Archer City, Texas, where The Last Picture Show was written and filmed. And in their video Standards they tour the 20th century to bid it farewell.
Their work has been widely exhibited, including at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany; Robert Flaherty Film Seminar; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. They have been nominated twice for a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Emily Brady
After spring break — Mark your calendar!
Monday, March 31, 2025 4pm to 5pm
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20 (lower level)
Lecture: Environmental Art as Commoning and Resistance: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Community
Emily Brady is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching interests span aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental ethics, eighteenth-century philosophy, environmental humanities, and animal studies. She has published seven books as author, co-author, or editor, including, Between Nature and Culture: The Aesthetics of Modified Environments (co-authored with Isis Brook and Jonathan Prior, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018) and The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Image: Patricia Johanson, Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility, Petaluma, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition: Group 1
Spring 2025
Andrea Caretto, Sierra Grove, Asa Mease
CU Art Museum
Exhibition dates: April 5-17, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, 4-6 PM
(Image: Asa Mease)
Group 2
Emily Moyer, Ana González Barragán, Alejandra Saldivar, Hannah Purvis
CU Art Museum
Exhibition Dates: April 26-May 10, 2025
Opening reception: Friday, April 25th from 4-6 PM
