Transatlantic Legacy: Full Circle

Transatlantic Legacy: Full Circle
Providence premiere of works by artist Tony Ramos

October 6th – 9th, 2015

The work of Tony Ramos as a pioneering performance and media artist is framed by his sojourns from Rhode Island to Cape Verde. It spans a forty year trajectory of recording, documenting, and creating a narrative that connects dots and points of space, time, history, and memory. In this the reconstitution of forgotten and overlooked stories is the legacy. The Rhode Island return of the artist and his work 40 years later brings full circle a unique and important transatlantic legacy, connecting a body of work that is local, global, and universal.

Schedule

On Display: Exhibition of Works by Tony Ramos
September 25 – October 18, 2015

Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Lower Lobby Gallery, Ground Floor, 154 Angell Street

Tuesday, October 6th
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium, Ground Floor, 154 Angell Street

Youth Program & Film Screening
Students, teachers, and members of the public​ interested in attending should email cssj_youthprograms@brown.edu.

3:30 PM
Snacks
CSSJ, 94 Waterman Street

4:30 PM
Film Screening: About Media

5:30 PM
Panel: Sustainability and Preservation
Tony Ramos, Rebecca Cleman, and Claire Andrade-Watkins

Following the screening, Ramos will be on a panel with Rebecca Cleman, Distribution Director of Electronic Arts Intermix, a New York City -based media center that archives and distributes Ramos’ video art and Claire Andrade-Watkins, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Director of the Fox Point Cape Verdean Project and is spearheading the restoration of the reel to reel footage from Cape Verde. The panelists will discuss these works and their role of preservation and distribution in keeping alternative stories and circulating.

7:30 PM
Screening of Decent Men

8:30 PM
Q&A, Moderated by Rebecca Cleman, Director of Distribution of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

Wednesday, October 7th
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium, Ground Floor, 154 Angell Street

4:00 PM
Matinee screenings:
Cape Verde Independence July 5, 6 1975
Some Aspects of Cape Verdean Culture
Balloon Nose Blow-Up
Plastic Bag Tie-Up

6:00 PM
Formal talk by artist Tony Ramos

Keynote Screening: Nor Was This All By Any Means

Reception to follow
CSSJ, 94 Waterman Street

Friday, October 9th, 2015
Rochambeau Library, Community Room, 708 Hope Street

3:00 – 4:30 PM
Screening: Mao Meets Muddy
Filmmaker in attendance: Anthony D. Ramos

Co-sponsored by: Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, the Brown Center for Students of Color (Black Heritage Series), the Creative Arts Council at Brown University, Electronic Arts Intermix, Spia Media Productions, Inc., and Providence Community Library.