Last Things by Deborah Stratman

Last Things is presented in collaboration with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series, where Deborah Stratman will present an artist’s talk. This event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, Apr 9, 1 pm, free
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Auditorium 150
2501 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis

Deborah Stratman makes films and artworks that investigate power, control, and belief, considering how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. Recent projects have addressed surveillance, raptors, levitation, sisterhood, and faith. She has exhibited internationally at venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Biennial (New York); Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Tabakalera (San Sebastian, Spain), Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), Yerba Buena Center (San Francisco), and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). She has done site-specific projects with venues including the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Temporary Services, Hallwalls, Mercer Union, and Ballroom Marfa. Stratman’s films have been featured widely at festivals and conferences, including Sundance, Viennale, Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Oberhausen, Yamagata, True/False, TIFF, Locarno, Rotterdam, the Flaherty, and Docs Kingdom. She is the recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim, and USA Collins Fellowships; an Alpert Award; Sundance Art of Nonfiction Award; and grants from Creative Capital, Graham Foundation, Harpo Foundation, and Wexner Center for the Arts.

Andy Graydon is an artist and filmmaker originally from Maui. His work is concerned with natural and social ecologies and with sound and listening as creative practices. Recent projects have focused on island ecologies and the imaginal and narrative forms employed by the natural sciences. His projects frequently engage structures of music, such as the ensemble, the score, improvisation, and variation, and techniques of the voice. Graydon’s work has been presented internationally including shows at the New Museum, New York; Mass MoCA; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; and the Honolulu Biennial. Grants and fellowships include the McKnight Foundation Fellowship in Media Arts, the MacDowell Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects, Film Study Center at Harvard Fellowship, NKD Nordic Artists‘ Center Residency, and the Headlands Center for the Arts Residency. Graydon has collaborated widely as a sound artist and composer, including work with Jennifer Walshe, Ernst Karel, Michael Pisaro, Delia Gonzalez, Stephen Vitiello, France Jobin, Cecilia Lopez, John Hudak, and Jan St. Werner.

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