The Ocean After Nature film screening: Rene Green, Endless Dreams and Water Between, 2009 and The Otolith Group, Hydra Decapita, 2010 FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2018 AT 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium (Room N101), Sheila C. Johnson Design Center<http://events.newschool.edu/anna-maria-and-stephen-kellen-auditorum>66 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003 For more information: http://events.newschool.edu/event/the_ocean_after_nature_film_screening_rene... As part of the exhibition The Ocean After Nature<https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/all-exhibitions/?id=17179877729>, the SJDC presents a screening of Renée Green's Endless Dreams and Water Between and The Otolith Group's Hydra Decapita. Endless Dreams and Water Between, 2009 70 min. Endless Dreams and Water Between captures a journey across dispersed sites: California, Manhattan and Majorica, held together by epistolary and oceanic exchanges among four fictional female characters who dream aloud about one day gathering in an imaginary place together. The film explores how islands shape our understanding of place in the world through conceptual, spacial, and historical positioning. Hydra Decapita, 2010 31:41 min. Hydra Decapita is a meta-documentary of an imaginary world based on the concept albums of Detroit based techno duo Drexciya. The myth of Drexciya is based on an underwater country populated by the evolved species of unborn children of pregnant women thrown overboard during the middle-passage of slave ships across the Atlantic. Amidst commenting on globalization, slavery, capitalism and climate change, the film is interrupted by high-contrast tight shots of flickering water, an intentionally abstract depiction of the perspective of the sea looking back at us. *************************** The Ocean After Nature considers the ocean as reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world. Featuring work by 20 artists and collectives in a variety of media - including photography, video, sculpture, and design - the exhibition explores new ways of representing the seascape as a means to identify and critique land-sea divides, the circulation of people and goods, and the vulnerabilities of ecosystems. In the past 15 years, global technological and economic shifts have triggered new concerns and understandings of the ocean. Invoking personal themes of identity and migration, alongside more universal concerns related to tourism, trade, and the exploitation of natural resources, the internationally established and emerging artists in The Ocean After Nature respond to the intertwined factors that define this new understanding of the ocean. The show proposes that seascapes do not only reflect power but can be instruments of power themselves. Featured artists include Ursula Biemann, CAMP, Yonatan Cohen & Rafi Segal, Mati Diop, Drexciya, Peter Fend, Manuel Gnam, Renée Green, Peter Hutton, Hyung S. Kim, An-My Lê, Manny Montelibano, The Otolith Group, Maria D. Rapicavoli, Carissa Rodriguez, Allan Sekula & Nöel Burch, Supersudaca, and UNITED BROTHERS. The Ocean After Nature is a traveling exhibition curated by Alaina Claire Feldman, a curator and Director of Exhibitions at Independent Curators International <http://curatorsintl.org/> (ICI) since 2011, and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, in collaboration with the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with the generous support from ICI's International Forum and the ICI Board of Trustees.?