December and January Target Free Thursday Nights feature Mario García Torres films and an Opening Night Celebration for Out There 2019
Target Free Thursday Nights
December 6, 13, 20, 27
January 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Start the weekend early with a healthy dose of art gazing and pop-up activities, all for free. Switch up your routine this fall with Target Free Thursday Nights from 5 to 9 pm.
FREE EVENTS
Video Works: Mario García Torres
Thursday, December 13, 5pm
Bentson Mediatheque, Free
A selection of García Torres’s short films will show in the Bentson Mediatheque throughout the evening. In addition, an extended playlist of the artist’s moving image work will be available for self-selection through February 17.
The Many Sides of Rabih Mroué: Out There Opening-Night Celebration
Thursday, January 10, 5pm
Walker Cinema and Gallery 2
Free
Witness other dimensions of Rabih Mroué’s creative output at the Out There 2019 opening-night celebration. Experience his brilliant Sand in the Eyes, a lecture-performance on the image politics of Islamist recruiting videos in contrast to images shot by drones (Walker Cinema, 7 pm), followed by an audience discussion. Then join a reception with the artist. The evening also marks the official opening of Mroué’s latest cycle of artworks, presented within the exhibition I am you, you are too. And don’t miss the premiere of Borborygmus, January 11–12.
Program Schedule
5–9 pm Exhibition rotation opening
7–8 pm Sand in the Eyes lecture-performance
8–8:30 pm Q&A with Rabih Mroué
8:30 pm Reception with the artist
Mario García Torres: Tea
Thursday, January 17, 7pm
Walker Cinema, Free
“The outcome of a gesture, an art gesture, is always unpredictable.” —Mario García Torres
In 1971, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti opened a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan—a creative project he continued until 1977. Thirty-three years later, Mario García Torres travels to Kabul from Mexico to trace the artistic idea of Boetti’s One Hotel, incorporating his own reflections to explore new gestures, parallel histories, overlapping relationships, and the unpredictable nature of art-making. 2012, 35mm film transferred to video, 64 min. Presented with the exhibition Mario García Torres: Illusion Brought Me Here.
Free tickets available from 6 pm at the Main Lobby desk.