Artist talk and screening
Admission starts at $5
May 23, 2023, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, May 23 at 7pm for history as hypnosis, an artist talk by Alison Nguyen. The talk will include a screening of a rough cut of Nguyen’s recent film of the same name, and will be followed by a discussion with the artist moderated by Selby Nimrod and Lukas Brasiskis.
history as hypnosis (2023)
The film follows three women, programmed by artificial intelligence, whose memories from their previous existence have been erased. In search of a man named “X,” the trio venture from the California desert to gas stations, gritty strip malls, starchitect-designed buildings, and underground enclaves. Interweaving subtle references to past violence associated with the US war in Vietnam, the film offers a complex take on how memory, consciousness, and historical narratives merge into a shared cultural imaginary produced, and reinforced, through cinematic images.
The program is organized in conjunction with the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where the exhibition List Projects 26: Alison Nguyen is on view from February 23 to June 25, 2023.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.