Art and Entertainment
How Do I Tell You I Remember: Screening + Q&A with Crystal Z Campbell
March 21, 2024 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm EDT
401 Harrison Street, Everson Museum Auditorium
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Join Light Work’s Urban Video Project for How Do I Tell You I Remember, a screening of short works by experimental filmmaker Crystal Z Campbell, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Light refreshments from Recess Coffee & Roastery.
This event is FREE & OPEN to the public.
How Do I Tell You I Remember is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Crystal Z Campbell: Makahiya, which will be on view in the plaza following the indoor event.
Makahiya
2024
Makahiya is an original video by Crystal Z Campbell commissioned by Light Work for the UVP architectural projection. Campbell was in-residence at Light Work in June 2023.
Makahiya, a Tagalog word that translates to “shame” or “shyness”, is the latest short experimental film from Crystal Z Campbell. Rooted in botanical research on a plant that displays the unusual trait of thigmonasty, or touch-induced movement, Campbell’s film is structured like intertwined vines. Digital video filmed on a recent trip to their mother’s ancestral homeland in the Philippines mingles with hand drawn animations, manipulated photographs, and archival news coverage of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo and its aftermath. Makahiya explores this seemingly sentient plant’s paradoxical identity, from rampant “invasive” weed to medicinal plant, reflecting on photosynthesis, memory, and the violent colonial impetus of regimented forgetting.
Makahiya is an excerpt from Campbell’s longer, forthcoming film project, Post Masters. This body of work is drawn from Campbell’s familial history––a Black military father formerly stationed in the Philippines and Filipinx mother hailing from the archipelago, who both retired from the US Post Office. Campbell explores both explicit and implicit traces of labor, landscape, love, and bodies as intimate agents, modes, and witnesses of empire ripe for decolonizing through the unraveling of sound, image, and cinematic time.
ON VIEW:
February 22 – June 1, 2024
Thursday – Saturday, dusk – 11pm
Everson Museum Plaza
401 Harrison Street
This event was published on February 16, 2024.
Event Details
- Category
- Art and Entertainment
- Region
- Greater Syracuse
- Open to
- Public
- Organizer
- Light Work
- Contact
- Cali Banks
cali@lightwork.org
- Accessibility
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- Parking
- Free parking is available to Museum visitors in the small lot in front of the Museum on Harrison Street. This lot offers a small number of handicapped accessible parking spots. Reduced-rate parking is available for Museum visitors in the Oncenter parking garage and open lot, accessible from State Street. Metered parking is available along Harrison and State Streets. On-street parking is free on Sundays and after 6:00pm.