The Space Between: Animate/Inanimate, Alive/Dead, Animal/Human

This lecture features Professor Bivens's original artwork, created from video, animation, sound, and sculpture. This work explores documents that pose a quandary about our relationship to the natural world, and, on another level, our relationship to ourselves. Investigating a natural phenomenon such as the calcium-rich diet of opossums or the homing ability of pigeons, or historical documents such as George Washington's Rules of Civility or Darwin's travel journals, Bivens’s projects pose questions about lived political, social, or psychological spaces that are situated in liminal or "between'' spaces -- spaces that include the distrust of women in power, the long-lasting effects of invisible labor, and the effect of being rendered mute or put into a category of unrepresentability. Who lives in "the between," and how can art help us to ask and answer?

Emily Bivens is a professor of Time-Based Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work has been shown at Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia; DEMO Project, Springfield, IL; Press Street for Prospect 3+, New Orleans; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara; The Texas Biennial, San Antonio; Currents: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival and the Lawndale Art Center, Houston. 

Free and open to the public, but registration is required.