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The Image and The Object: An Introduction with Michelle Dunn Marsh

February 1 @ 1:00 pm

Join Michelle Dunn Marsh, curator of Charles Peterson’s Nirvana and co-founder of Minor Matters, for the first of a two-part series on photography as an artform. Drawing from her three-decade career working with American photographers nationally on publications, exhibitions, and public programs, Michelle will highlight key practitioners of the twentieth and twenty-first century, the “why” behind choosing regional photographers published through Minor Matters, and discuss her abiding love for prints.

Michelle will present the second lecture in this series on February 8th at 1:00pm in the TAM Event Space.

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Reading Photographs with Michelle Dunn Marsh

February 8 @ 1:00 pm

Join Michelle Dunn Marsh, curator of Charles Peterson’s Nirvana and co-founder of Minor Matters, for the second lecture in this two-part series. This talk will focus on visual literacy and specifically learning to read photographs. Part photo history, part personal history, part brain science, this interactive discussion may change how you perceive the world around you.

Tickets are free for members, $15 for non-members.

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Still/Life: Photography in the Cinematic Imagination (TAM Cinema)

February 13 @ 6:00 pm

TAM Cinema is a moving image series exploring the interrelation of photography and cinema, each in turn operating as an apparatus of memory and index of experience. Works in this series, Still/Life, form a conceptual reflection on the space opened up between photography and performance iterated in Charles Peterson’s Nirvana. Still / Life explores a certain tension across the related mediums’ claims to real and imaginary realms, to empirical and subjective states, from historic to ecstatic truths. Image-making is presented in varying, and often seemingly opposing, forms: as both inference and reference, instance and eternity. 

 Curated by David Dinnell and Jay Kuehner 

TAM Cinema is a free event, but donations are welcome.

Still / Life: Photography In The Cinematic Imagination (TAM Cinema)

March 6 @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Still/Life presents three works of cinema that take the still image as a starting point for inquiry into memory, the passage of time, the intertwining of the political and the personal, and the nature of the medium of cinema itself. In Ulysse (1982, 22 min), Agnès Varda revisits a mysterious photograph she had taken in 1954 of a naked man, a child, and a dead goat on a beach, and follows up with the man and boy thirty years later. Printed Matter (2011, 29 min) depicts photographs, presented in contact sheets, by the late photojournalist André Brutmann (the artist’s father), who covered pivotal and historic events of the Israel-Palestine conflict over two decades. Off-screen we hear Andre’s partner and fellow journalist Hanne Foighel as she recalls the events photographed while tenderly interweaving memories of their concurrent personal and familial life.  Standard Gauge (1984, 35 min), an incredible work of conceptual art, is a continuous 35 minute static shot (filmed on 1000 feet of 16mm film) where artist Morgan Fisher presents fragments of strips of 35mm film frames he acquired while working as a commercial film editor in Hollywood. Fisher wryly narrates the origin of these pieces of film and their personal meaning, creating an examination of the material of film and the institutions that produce it.

Curated by David Dinnell and Jay Kuehner 

TAM Cinema is a free event, but donations are welcome.

Still / Life: Photography In The Cinematic Imagination (TAM Cinema)

April 10 @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Still/Life presents three films by artist Rebecca Baron that explore still photography and its relationship to the moving image. In okay bye-bye (1998, 39 min), Baron’s chance discovery of a fragment of Super 8 film found on a sidewalk in San Diego, leads her to reckon with the history of Cambodia from the vantage point of southern California. Detour de Force (2014, 29 min) explores the incredible world of Ted Serios, a charismatic Chicago bell hop who, in the mid-1960’s produced hundreds of Polaroid images from his mind. Photographs of the final moments of three polar explorers from over a century ago are presented in The Idea of North (1995, 14 min), which investigates “the limitations of images… as a means of knowing the past and the paradoxical interplay of film time, historical time, real time and the fixed moment of the photograph”.

Curated by David Dinnell and Jay Kuehner 

TAM Cinema is a free event, but donations are welcome.

Still / Life: Photography In The Cinematic Imagination (TAM Cinema)

May 1 @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

This month’s installment of Still/Life features two deeply personal ruminations on the rapport between the image, both still and moving, and the flux of memory, from eminent artists Chris Marker and Danny Lyon.

Curated by David Dinnell and Jay Kuehner 

TAM Cinema is a free event, but donations are welcome.

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Still / Life: Photography In The Cinematic Imagination (TAM Cinema)

June 5 @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

The June instance of Still/Life is a two-part program formally cleaved yet cumulatively syncretic in its attempt to mediate between the still and moving image: from the inert to the kinetic, from analog to digital, silence to sound, portraiture to performance.