Filament is a moving image series at TAM conceived in dialogue with the exhibition Soft Power – a cinematic response to and reflection on the multivalent themes, both latent and tangible, in the textile-based artwork.
Thursday, May 23, 6pm
Quality Control
by Kevin Jerome Everson
US, 2011, 71 minutes, 16mm transferred to digital, b/w
Quality Control consists of a series of 16mm b/w single take shots of the fine folks of Alabama producing a superior product. Filmed in a dry cleaners in Pritchard, Alabama, Quality Control exhibits the acts as well the conditions around labor. The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2011 and was featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2012.
movie still: ©Kevin Jerome Everson; courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures
Quality Control appears courtesy the artist and Picture Palace Pictures
Kevin Jerome Everson (b. Mansfield, Ohio. Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA) is the Commonwealth Professor of Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Recipient of the Guggenheim, Heinz Award, Berlin Prize, Alpert Award, Rome Prize, and Creative Capital, Everson’s art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film, 12 award-winning features and over 200 solo and collaborative short form works that screen regularly at international film festivals, cinemas, galleries, museums and art biennials.
Everson’s work has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern/Film, London, Highline, NYC, Cinema du Reel/Centre Pompidou, Paris, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Canada (in association with Media City FF), Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Austria, MMCA, Seoul, Harvard Film Archive and was featured at the Whitney Biennial (2008, 2012, 2017), the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International, the 2023 Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Belgium and the 2024 Thailand Biennale.
A3 DVD Boxed Set, Broad Daylight and Other Times, was released by Video Data Bank (U.S.) in 2011 and a DVD dedicated to films focusing on the rituals and gestures of labor, I Really Hear That: Quality Control and Other Works was released by VDB in 2017. The two disc blu-ray How You Live Your Story: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson was released by the UK based boutique label Second Run DVD in Fall 2020.
photo: Sandy Williams III
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