After Hours Film School: Suneil Sanzgiri
Monday, February 20, 2023, 7–9:30pm
After Hours: Alison Nguyen
Multiples
Alison Nguyen, history as hypnosis, 2023, single-channel video, color, sound, 30 min.
About the workshop
This workshop will take place in person, at Wendy's Subway.
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Time: 7–9:30pm EST
Capacity: 15 participants
Cost: $25–$75 (Sliding scale)
No one turned away for lack of funds
Register here.
*No prior filmmaking experience required
After Hours Film School is a workshop series devoted to new currents in cinematic practice. The series invites moving-image makers to share new work or work-in-progress and engage with participants in a seminar-style discussion around methodology, production, and key questions animating their work. After Hours is organized by Kirsten Gill and Rachel Valinsky.
This season, After Hours considers the "take," construed broadly, as framing device and critical angle.
This workshop, led by Alison Nguyen, will explore moving image work as a living and endlessly mutable set of parts. In her practice, Nguyen has gravitated toward a methodology of “versioning,” creating variations from a single work that exists in different forms across physically distinct sites. The workshop considers such “versioning” as a counter-mythological practice that, through the figure of the avatar or the double, for instance, takes up cultural history through the lens of a self at once individual and multiple. Together, we will think through the aesthetic and political possibilities for the refusal of a distinct identity or “master copy,” and for the unfixing of selves and moving images, as acts of protest against structures of power.
About the instructor
Alison Nguyen is a New York-based artist whose work spans video, installation, performance, and new media. Her work has been presented at MIT List Center for Visual Arts, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, The Everson Museum, The Dowse Art Museum, The International Studio & Curatorial Program, AC Gallery Beijing, Half Gallery, Signs and Symbols, La Kaje, and Hartnett Gallery, among others. She has screened work at The Museum of Modern Art, e-flux, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival Oberhausen, CPH:DOX, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, True/False Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, The Jewish Museum, and Microscope Gallery. Nguyen received her MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and her BA in Literary Arts from Brown University. She is a 2023–2024 artist in the Whitney Independent Studies Program.