VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970, October 18, 2008 – January 4, 2009.

Collaborating with The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Cinema Remixed & Reloaded is the first exhibition to examine the critical contributions of black women film and video artists to the field of contemporary art.

Featuring projections, installations, interactive CD-ROM projects, experimental film and video work the exhibition spans across generations and geographic boundaries to present work by more than 40 artists.

Works by established artists who began working with the medium in the 1970s such as Adrian Piper, Carroll Parrott Blue, Senga Nengudi, Julie Dash, and Howardena Pindell, are presented along side of works created by mid-career and emerging artists such as Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Bernie Searle, Kara Walker, Marìa Magdelena Campos-Pons, Elizabeth Axtman, , Zoë Charlton, Jessica Ann Peavy, Tracey Rose, Lauren Kelley, Lauren Woods, and Xaviera Simmons.

A significant catalogue co-published by The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, accompanies this exhibition and functions as an essential reader on the subject of black women artists and the moving image since 1970.

The exhibition has been made possible by grants from the Fulton County Arts Council under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council and Peter Norton Family Foundation; the Friends of The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and by the patrons, benefactors, and donors of Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's Major Exhibition Fund. The accompanying catalogue has been made possible by a grant from The Brown Foundation Inc., of Houston.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS
All the following events are free and open to the public and take place at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston unless otherwise noted.

Opening reception: Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970
Friday, October 17, 9:00-11:00 PM
Celebrate the opening of Cinema Remixed & Reloaded, a groundbreaking exhibition chronicling the contributions that black women have made and continue to make to video art. This historic exhibition includes almost fifty works by forty artists and spans three decades.

Artists/Scholars Talk: Valerie Cassel Oliver and Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D.
Saturday, October 18, 2:00 PM
Join us for a dialogue with the co-curators of the exhibition: Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., director, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta.

Artists/Scholars Talk: Carrie Mae Weems*
Saturday, November 1, 2:00 PM
*Special location: Freed Auditorium, Glassell School of Art, 5201 Montrose Blvd
Carrie Mae Weems, exhibiting artist, discusses her work. Cosponsored by the Core Program.

Artists/Scholars Talk: Carroll Parrott Blue and Neema Barnette
Saturday, November 15, 2:00 PM
Carroll Parrott Blue, author, filmmaker, and exhibiting artist, in dialogue with Neema Barnette, filmmaker, Emmy Award-winning director, and visiting assistant professor, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

Family Day
Sunday, November 16, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
The whole family can participate in educator-led tours of the current exhibitions and in hands-on art activities.

Artists/Scholars Talk: Lauren Kelley and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Saturday, December 13, 2:00 PM
Exhibiting artists Lauren Kelley and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum discuss their work.

Pictured: Bernie Serle, video still from Its AMatter of Time, 2003, DVD projection, run time 3 min. 30 sec, looped. Courtesy the artist and Michael Stevenson Gallery, Capetown South Africa.