Feb 25, 2021

A film screening and conversation at University of Colorado, Boulder

Turo: A Film Screening and Conversation with Anton Ginzburg.
With the Participation of Ksenia Nouril, Anastasiya Osipova, and Jeanne Liotta
Thursday, February, 25, 2021
4 PM MST // 6 PM EST

https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96836335301



Anton Ginzburg, a New-York based, Russian-born artist and filmmaker, will introduce his artistic practice and research into the Soviet modernism and screen Turo (2016, 35 minutes), a film exploring post-Soviet geography, Constructivist architecture, and the significance of Soviet avant-garde modernist legacy and its dreams of universalism for American culture today. The screening will be followed by conversation between Ginzburg, art curator and scholar of Eastern European and global contemporary art Ksenia Nouril, filmmaker Jeanne Liotta (Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, CU Boulder), and scholar Anastasiya Osipova (Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at CU Boulder).

Anton Ginzburg (b. 1974, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a New York-based artist, known for his films, sculptures, paintings, and text-based printed work that investigates historical narratives and poetic studies of place, representation, and post-Soviet identity. He earned a BFA from The New School's Parsons School of Design and MFA degree from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

His work has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Canada, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns in New York, Lille 3000 in Euralille, France, and the first and second Moscow Biennales. His films have been screened at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Soluna), Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and New York Film Festival/Projections among others.
www.antonginzburg.com
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Jeanne Liotta is an Associate Professor, Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts and an Associate Director for Graduate Studies, MFA in Film at CU Boulder. She is an artist and filmmaker. Her work has been seen in The Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum Dreamlands exhibition, The New York Film Festival, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Exploratorium of San Francisco, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Centre de Georges Pompidou Paris, CCCB Spain, MCA Denver, and The Menil Collection Houston among others. Awards include NYSCA, The Jerome Foundation, The Museum of Contemporary Cinema and The Orphans Film Symposium’s Helen Hill Award. She has written a monograph on her research into the Joseph Cornell Film Collection at Anthology Film Archives and is a long-time faculty member at the Bard MFA Program. Liotta is represented by Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, and her work is collected by The Museum of Modern Art, The Austrian Film Museum, The European Media Arts Collection, The New York Public Library, Harvard and Duke Universities.
 
Ksenia Nouril is an art historian, curator, and writer specializing in global modern and contemporary art. She is the Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center in Philadelphia. Previously, she worked at the Bruce Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art, where she co-edited and contributed to Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (2018) and Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov: Stories About Ourselves (editor and contributor, Rutgers University Press, 2019).. She holds a BA in Art History and Slavic Studies from New York University and an MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her writing appears frequently in exhibition catalogues and other publications, including ARTMargins Online, The Calvert Journal, and OSMOS.
Anastasiya Osipova is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she teaches and writes on Soviet and post-Soviet culture. She is also a co-founder and editor of Cicada Press, an imprint that pursues contemporary Eastern European politically engaged poetic texts.

Anastasiya Osipova is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she teaches and writes on Soviet and post-Soviet culture. She is also a co-founder and editor of Cicada Press, an imprint that pursues contemporary Eastern European politically engaged poetic texts.

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The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder.