Tuesday April 01: Artist Talk

1:00-2:00pm Artist Talk in Chase Hall Lounge

Join artists Nadav Assor and Tirtza Even for a joint artist talk about their respective artist practices and their collaboration on Chronicle of a Fall. With students of MUS/THEA/AVC310: Immersive Media Installation (open to all)

Thursday April 03: Opening Reception & Discussion

3:00-5:00pm Exhibition Opening in Coram Library, IMStudio

Join us for the opening reception for the exhibition Chronicle of a Fall in the IMStudio at Bates.

5:00-6:00pm Discussion in Chase Hall Lounge

Following the opening, join the artists Nadav Assor and Tirtza Even for a discussion about the installation and notions of home and im/migration in the contemporary moment. Pizza will be provided.

EXHIBITION HOURS

+The exhibition will be open 1pm-7pm Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays between April 4-May 2, with the exception of April 10 and April 11.

About Chronicle of a Fall

Chronicle of a Fall, a feature-length immersive installation, depicts the fragmented, in-transit, experience of a group of immigrant cultural workers primarily from the Middle East and Global South, scattered around the contemporary US. Paying homage to the classic ‘Chronicle of a Summer,’ the project updates the Cinema Verité approach using emerging technologies such as parallel body worn cameras, volumetric capture, and projection mapping. Visitors to the installation are immersed in a pointillized 3D world created from the interconnected fragments of our participants’ shifting domestic spaces as well as the public environments they navigate. Within these semi-abstract, intertwined, and constantly slipping spaces and soundscapes, the viewers encounter close-up videos of intimate conversations and reflections around the central questions of home and migration, love, loss, and longing.

Links & Press

• Chronicle of a Fall website
• Exhibition Trailer
• Exhibition walk through
• Exhibition website for Gallery 400, Chicago, May 27 – August 1 2022
• An in-depth review on Hyperallergic of the Gallery 400 exhibition, June 2022
• Selected for “Best Chicago Art Exhibitions of 2022” by the Chicago Tribune, December 2022

About the Artists

Nadav Assor, Co-Producer, Co-Director

Nadav Assor creates layered videos, sound works, installations, and performances engaging real and imagined places through embodied, polyphonic personal narratives, utilizing intimate connections and fragmented perspectives. Assor’s work has appeared internationally at venues including Transmediale Berlin, Oberhausen Film Festival, Fridman Gallery NYC, Gallery 400 Chicago and Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, with reviews in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Haaretz and the Chicago Tribune among others. He is an Associate Professor at Connecticut College, where he directs the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, and was an MIT Open Documentary Lab fellow (2019–2022). Many of his video works are distributed by Video Data Bank, Chicago.

nadassor.net | 

Tirtza Even, Co-Producer, Co-Director

A documentary maker and video artist, Even’s video-work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Canada and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight (NY), RIDM Festival (Montreal), and Rotterdam Film Festival. Her work has won numerous grants and awards including Artadia Awards (Chicago), Jerome Foundation’s Media Arts Award, 3ARTs Visual Arts and Next Level Awards, Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, and multiple NYSCA and DCASE Individual Artist Grants; and has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY) and Harvard University’s Carpenter Center, among others. A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department, Even has been a featured speaker at programs such as MIT Doc Lab, the Whitney Museum Seminar series, SXSW Interactive Conference, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, ACM Multimedia and many more. Even’s work is distributed by Heure Exquise (France), Video Data Bank (U.S.), and Groupe Intervention Video (Canada).

tirtzaeven.info |

Stefan Oliveira-Pita, Editor

Born 1983. Film Editor, Lecturer. Diploma at Film University Konrad Wolf, Potsdam. Since 2009 Oliveira-Pita has carried out numerous collaborations on international features, documentaries and art installation works. Selections include: Atlas (German Film Award Nominee), Furusato (Golden Dove), Lamento (First Steps Award), Portraits of German Alcoholics (Prix Dialogue Berlinale), Civil Servants (Grimme Award Nominee), Only a Day (German Film Critics Award), Family Business (NRW Film Award). Since 2014 he has been a lecturer at DFFB, Bauhaus Uni Weimar, HS Mainz. Alumni of Berlinale Talents 2016. His work has won the best Editing Award for Lamento at Sehsüchte 2014. Oliveira-Pita lives and works in Berlin.

oliveira-pita.com |

Julian Flavin. Sound Designer

Julian Flavin is an artist and educator who joins L4E as the Associate Director of the Critical Media Lab. His projects spanning documentary filmmaking, installation, music, and writing have been featured at SXSW, Osheaga Music Festival, The Tinguely Museum, The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, and NYU’s Gallatin Galleries among others. Films and installations featuring his post-production sound work have screened at MoMA, IFFRotterdam, Cinema du Réel, the Viennale, DOK Leipzig, RIDM, Mostra São Paulo, Gallery 400, Union Docs, Visions du Réel, and Art of The Real. His most recent feature-film project “In The Sweet Arms” asks how our relationship to music shapes our politics, our deepest-held aspirations, and our language for understanding our position in the world. He is interested in the role art plays in experiences of mutuality and difference, and in the political interpretation of such experience. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has taught courses in filmmaking at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

https://www.l4ecozoic.org/julian-flavin |

Institutional support: this project was developed in part through a fellowship with MIT Open Documentary Lab, 2019-2021, with additional support from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Connecticut College, The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, and the City of Chicago.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Bates Learning Associates Program.