Exhibition Finale: Artist Smita Sen in Conversation
* Please note: This event is now VIRTUAL, due to our wish to keep all attendees safe. Please join us online at the link above. Thank you!
We welcome you to the closing event for the exhibition Smita Sen: The Manipura Sanctum, a live conversation with exhibiting artist Smita Sen, and fellow artists Ezra Benus and Yo-Yo Lin. All of the artists center their work in the studio and in community around principles of care, mutualism, and reciprocity, offering a framework for care in relationship and daily life. Situated in public space, the conversation will consider how public and private space constrain or free up ways that we collectively show up for each other, and how the current pandemic realities have guided and deepened aspects of their artistry and working methods.
The conversation will be situated inside of and surrounding the Sanctum, a sculptural installation by Sen in the Grand Lobby. Registration and masking are required and capacity is limited. The event will be taped.
About the Artists
Smita Sen is an artist working with sculpture, dance-based performance, and advanced technology to research how the body internalizes its environment and significant life events. With installations, such as her current exhibition at BPL's Central Library, Sen attempts to reimagine sites of care and creates environments for the body to enter states of meditative healing.
Ezra Benus is an artist, educator, and curator whose work addresses a range of themes such as constructions of time, relationships of care, pain as a portal, and the mundaneness of illness. Ezra’s practice is cradled by embedded Jewishness, queerness, and sickness as purviews and navigational tools in this world. Social, political, and spiritual forces collide through reflections on bodily knowledge and social constructions around values of normativity in their art
Yo-Yo Lin 林友友 is a Taiwanese-American, interdisciplinary media artist who explores the possibilities of self-knowledge in the context of emerging, embodied technologies. She often uses video, animation, live performance, and lush sound design to create meditative ‘memoryscapes.’ Her recent body of work reveals and re-values the complex realities of living with chronic illness and intergenerational trauma.
* Please note: This event is now VIRTUAL, due to our wish to keep all attendees safe. Please join us online at the link above. Thank you!
We welcome you to the closing event for the exhibition Smita Sen: The Manipura Sanctum, a live conversation with exhibiting artist Smita Sen, and fellow artists Ezra Benus and Yo-Yo Lin. All of the artists center their work in the studio and in community around principles of care, mutualism, and reciprocity, offering a framework for care in relationship and daily life. Situated in public space, the conversation will consider how public and private space constrain or free up ways that we collectively show up for each other, and how the current pandemic realities have guided and deepened aspects of their artistry and working methods.
The conversation will be situated inside of and surrounding the Sanctum, a sculptural installation by Sen in the Grand Lobby. Registration and masking are required and capacity is limited. The event will be taped.
About the Artists
Smita Sen is an artist working with sculpture, dance-based performance, and advanced technology to research how the body internalizes its environment and significant life events. With installations, such as her current exhibition at BPL's Central Library, Sen attempts to reimagine sites of care and creates environments for the body to enter states of meditative healing.
Ezra Benus is an artist, educator, and curator whose work addresses a range of themes such as constructions of time, relationships of care, pain as a portal, and the mundaneness of illness. Ezra’s practice is cradled by embedded Jewishness, queerness, and sickness as purviews and navigational tools in this world. Social, political, and spiritual forces collide through reflections on bodily knowledge and social constructions around values of normativity in their art
Yo-Yo Lin 林友友 is a Taiwanese-American, interdisciplinary media artist who explores the possibilities of self-knowledge in the context of emerging, embodied technologies. She often uses video, animation, live performance, and lush sound design to create meditative ‘memoryscapes.’ Her recent body of work reveals and re-values the complex realities of living with chronic illness and intergenerational trauma.