The group exhibition Ethnographies of the Future sets the stage for a discussion on the construction of identity. On April 16 the BRIC Rotunda Gallery presents a screening of film and video works by several artists, among them Norwegian Lene Berg.
4/14/2008 :: Ethnographies of the Future brings together artists with diverse historical reference points. What they all share, is that their works present a critical relationship to post-colonial identity politics. In installations, videos, and mixed-media works, they suggest an ever-shifting discursive field where the possibilities for defining ethnography are unending. With the artists diverse background, the exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn addresses colonial rule from a contemporary, global perspective.
Lene Berg is the Norwegian contributor to the exhibition, when her film is screened at the gallery on Wednesday, April 16. Berg was educated a film director from Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, and works as an artist with video, installations, photo and text. She was the Norwegian ISCP fellow in New York in 2007.
In her work, she mixes medias and fictions within the same project, and uses both people and events as points of departure in her projects. She has participated in a number of group shows, and realized multiple solo shows and projects. Berg's contribution on the Wednesday screening is called "The Weimar Conspiracy". In this video work, Weimar is used as an example of established ways of presenting and remembering European history and culture.
Among the other artists at the BRIC exhibition, that is curated by Sara Reisman, you will find Elia Alba, Rajkamal Kahlon, Seung Young Kim and Hironori Murai.
When: Video screening Wednesday, April 16 at 7pm. The exhibition last from March 18 - May 5, 2008.
Where: BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn
Info: The Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 12 to 6pm. Admission is free. For more information, visit the gallery's website.