How can photographs make visible the invisible? How do artists conjure the absent or the deceased in their images? How can we engage with such work during the current pandemic?
This program, organized by BRIC and The Green-Wood Cemetery, begins with artists Corinne Botz and Sarah Sweeney sharing how their respective art practices engage with the history of photography and its relationship to mortality, the invisible, and remembrance. From lactation rooms, to haunted domestic spaces, to the homes of individuals with agoraphobia, Botz photographs spaces with layered invisible, marginalized and traumatic histories. Sweeney creates digital interventions that inject the unseen and unspoken into photographs—making visible desire, anxiety, fantasy, and loss—shared narratives that have been exiled from our memory objects and archives.
Afterward, Bethany Tabor, who leads Green-Wood’s Death Cafes, will divide attendees into small groups and facilitate discussion about how our photographs take on new meanings in this time of social distancing and isolation.
Participants will be encouraged to share a photograph that is meaningful to them in small groups.
Free. A Zoom link will be in your confirmation email upon registration.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Corinne Botz (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based photographic artist, filmmaker, and educator. From lactation rooms, to haunted domestic spaces, to the homes of individuals with agoraphobia, Botz photographs spaces with layered invisible, marginalized and traumatic histories. Botz is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Photographer Sarah Sweeney (she/her) creates digital interventions that inject the unseen and unspoken into photographs—making visible desire, anxiety, fantasy, and loss—shared narratives that have been exiled from our memory objects and archives. She is Associate Professor of Art at Skidmore College and the creator of The Forgetting Machine, an iPhone app commissioned by the new media organization Rhizome.
ABOUT THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY
Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood was one of the first rural cemeteries in America. Spread across 478 spectacular acres of hills, valleys, glacial ponds and paths, the Cemetery boasts one of the largest outdoor collections of 19th- and 20th-century statuary and mausoleums. Throughout the year, visitors are welcomed to explore Green-Wood through art installations, concerts, book readings, outdoor film screenings, death education programs, and tours.
