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Learn about media artist Peggy Ahwesh’s films and videos, which span technologies, styles, and genres.
In her video and filmmaking practice, Peggy Ahwesh incorporates found footage, sound, and an interest in obscurity and aesthetics. At the Wex, she will share how her work combines the political and the social, humor and absurdity, and performance to ask questions about feminism, cultural identity, narrative structures, and the arc of meaning over time. Ahwesh will also speak about creating gallery installations. These works consider space, scale, and viewing from the perspectives of filmmaking and editing, as well as composition and frame. A Q&A follows the program.
IMAGE CAPTIONPeggy Ahwesh.
Peggy Ahwesh, Kansas Atlas.
Peggy Ahwesh, She Puppet.
Peggy Ahwesh, The Wayfinders; image courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery, New York.
Peggy Ahwesh, The Falling Sky.
Peggy Ahwesh is a Brooklyn-based media artist who began as a Super 8 filmmaker in the Pittsburgh punk underground. Her survey exhibition Vision Machines was presented in Bristol, England, and Norway. Recent exhibitions include Ahwesh in Focus at the Women Make Waves International Film Festival in Taiwan; Undesirables, San Telmo Museum, Spain; Heart_Land, JOAN, Los Angeles; Cleave, Microscope Gallery, New York; and Verily! The Blackest Sea, the Falling Sky, Berwick Media Arts Fest, UK. Film retrospectives include presentations at Filmmuseum, Brussels; British Film Institute, London; and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Her work was also shown in several Whitney Biennial exhibitions. Ahwesh is Professor Emeritus at Bard College and represented by Microscope Gallery.
This event is copresented with Ohio State’s Department of Art Visiting Artist Program and sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs.
The Ohio State University Greater Columbus Arts Council Orange Barrel Media Ohio Arts Council Wexner Center Foundation Board The Columbus Foundation CampusParc With special thanks to our members
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