BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS (BCA) AND PAO ARTS CENTER JOIN FORCES FOR INTERCITY ARTIST CONVERSATION
Artists explore migration, home, and community as part of Mimi
Bai: HIDE AND SEE
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| Mimi Bai. |
Drawing from different regions of the Asian diaspora, each artist utilizes varying conceptual approaches to explore themes of migration, home, and community through their work. Their overlapping and contrasting practices in video, photography, mixed media and public art raise anthropological and sociological questions around assimilation in new geographies.
After the conversation, take a short walk from Pao Arts Center
to the Mills Gallery, and join artist Mimi Bai for an artist walkthrough
of her solo exhibition, HIDE AND SEE. Artist gallery hours start at 4 pm that Saturday. This program is organized by Pao Arts Center and Boston Center
for the Arts (BCA) in connection with HIDE AND SEE, a solo exhibition by Mimi Bai, curated by Amanda Contrada. On view at the BCA Mills Gallery from Friday, December 16 to
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Curator
Amanda Contrada
The following week, on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 4:00pm in the BCA Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts will host a film screening of Hide and See with an accompanying live score. Hide and See is an experimental narrative film collaboration between Sam B. Jones and Mimi Bai that activates Bai’s clay and textile sculptures, transforming them into shrouds for two ghostly figures. For this special screening, the film’s composer Zain Alam (Humeysha) will perform a blended live and recorded score, followed by a conversation with Mimi Bai, Zain Alam, and Sam B. Jones.
Agenda for Jan. 28, 2023
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| Mimi
Bai, Track-makers, nylon webbing,
plastic buckles, 4 Y-shaped sticks, 10 x 6 x 4.5 inches |
4 PM |Mills Gallery, at Boston Center for the Arts, South End
|Walkthrough with the artist Mimi Bai of her show HIDE AND SEE
Agenda for Feb. 4, 2023
4:00pm | BCA Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts | Film Screening with live score followed by a Q/A with the film’s directors Mimi Bai and Sam B. Jones, and composer Zain Alam (Humeysha).
Quote from Julia Szejnblum Associate Director of Exhibitions, Boston Center for the Arts
This Artist Conversation is the first collaboration between Boston Center for the Arts and Pao Arts Center, two artist and community-driven organizations. We're proud to align our missions with our neighbors from Pao Arts Center for an intercity conversation connecting Mimi Bai, NYC-based artist of this exhibition, with Boston-based artists Gohar Dashti & Ngoc-Tran Vu, multi-disciplinary artists and activists in our own city dedicated to themes around migration, assimilation, and home.
Quote from Leslie Condon, Visual Arts Manager, Pao Arts Center
Pao Arts Center is a distinctive Chinatown neighborhood space that uplifts critical AAPI-centered narratives through dynamic cultural programming while providing important arts enrichment for the greater community. We are excited to host a conversation by artists Bai, Dashti, and Vu that connects their contemporary practices with broader community efforts and dialogues. By bringing these intercity discussions to the forefront, we hope to bring more visibility to the way that the arts can contribute to vital community-informed social action.
About the Artist: Mimi Bai
Mimi Bai is a visual artist born in Xi’an, China, and based in Brooklyn, NY. Working across sculpture, drawing, installation, and film, her work examines camouflage, labor, assimilation, and survival as both a lived reality and fantasy. Bai has presented work at Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC, Project for Empty Space, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her films have screened at Rooftop Films, the Rockaway Film Festival, and the Maryland Film Festival. Bai was a SIP Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop as well as a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for Interdisciplinary Work and a recipient of two Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at organizations including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Bai was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program and is a graduate of Alfred University (MFA, Sculpture) and Wesleyan University (BA, Sociology).
Website: https://mimibiyaobai.com/
About Gohar Dashti
Gohar Dashti received her M.A. in photography from the Tehran
University of Art in 2005. For the past 16 years, she has been making large
scale photography with a particular focus on social issues. Her work references
history and contemporary culture, as well as the convergence of anthropological
and sociological perspectives; employing a unique, quasi-theatrical aesthetic,
she brings to bear a diverse intellectual and cultural experience to illuminate
and elaborate upon her perception of the world around her.
In her most recent works, Dashti has explored, through her highly stylized, densely poetic observations of human and plant-life, the innate kinship between the natural world and human migrations. Fascinated with human-geographical narratives and their interconnection to her own personal experiences, Gohar Dashti believes that nature is what connects her to the multiple meanings of ‘home’ and ‘displacement’, both as conceptual abstractions, and as concrete realities that delineate and contour our existence. The result is a series of quirky landscapes and portraits, as lush as they are arch, inciting questions about the immense, variegated, border-eschewing reach of nature – immune to cultural and political divisions – and the ways in which immigrants inevitably search out and reconstruct familiar topographies in a new, ostensibly foreign land.
Website: https://gohardashti.com/
About Ngoc-Tran Vu
Ngoc-Tran Vu is a 1.5-generation
Vietnamese-American multimedia artist and organizer whose socially engaged
practice draws from her experience as a cultural connector, educator, and
lightworker. Tran threads her social practice through photography, painting,
sculpture and audio so that her art can resonate and engage audience with
intentionality. Her work evokes discourse of familial ties, memories and
rituals amongst themes of social
justice and intersectionality. She is currently an adjunct faculty in Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Tran works across borders and is based in Boston's Dorchester community.
Website: https://www.tranvuarts.com/ | @TranVuArts
About Boston Center for the Arts:
Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to community, and has for over five decades engaged the creative community for public good. While the organization’s physical residence is in the historic South End, BCA touches every part of Boston’s cultural ecosystem. A leading force in the city’s cultural community, BCA has supported thousands of individual artists, small organizations, and performing arts companies, who add depth and dimension to the Boston arts ethos. Through residencies and programming, BCA serves as an epicenter for an expanding cohort of artists working across all disciplines, and has catalyzed careers by providing fertile ground for experimentation and artistic risk-taking.
To learn more about Boston Center for the Arts, visit www.bostonarts.org
About Pao Arts Center
Pao Arts Center was established in 2017 as a visionary program collaboration between Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) and Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC). Located at 99 Albany Street in downtown Boston, Pao Arts Center is Chinatown’s first arts and cultural center
Pao Arts Center represents the belief that investing in arts, culture, and creativity are vital to the health and well-being of individuals, families, and vibrant communities. Through its innovative approach, Pao Arts Center empowers creativity, connection, learning, and support.
Visit paoartscenter.org to learn more.
More information:
· Exhibition details: https://bostonarts.org/experiences/exhibitions/mimi-bai-hide-and-see/
· Artist Conversation Event Page: https://www.paoartscenter.org/events/2023/mimibaitalk
· HIDE AND SEE Film Screening with Live Score: Saturday,
February 4, 2023 https://bostonarts.org/event/film-screening-mimi-bai-hide-and-see/
· Images for Use: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A62KsQO7dzvi8RoGjNWFs_xF4_lL2CRE&authuser=0&usp=drive_link
· About the 1:1 Exhibition Series at BCA: https://bostonarts.org/1-1-exhibition-series/
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