Blue Box Seminar Series

Department of Geography Presents

IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT: Artist talk with Fred Schmidt-Arenales

Fred Schmidt-Arenales is an artist and filmmaker. His projects attempt to bring awareness to unconscious processes on the individual and group level. He has presented films, installations, and performances internationally at venues including SculptureCenter, The Bronx Museum, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), Links Hall and The Logan Center for the Arts (Chicago), The Darling Foundry (Montreal), LightBox, The Institute of contemporary Art, and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, Artspace (New Haven), The Museum of Fine Arts and FotoFest (Houston), Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien (Graz), and Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna). His film Committee of Six was awarded a Jury Prize for Best of the Festival at the 2023 Onion City Experimental Film Festival.

In this presentation Fred Schmidt-Arenales introduces filmmaking practices and show clips from previous films using participatory filmmaking methods, which invite people to engage in process based encounters around issues that materially impact their lives. Past projects engage historical and current dynamics of gentrification, governance, land grabs, privatization, and climate change adaptation. The presentation ends with an introduction to a new work in progress on wind energy development in Newfoundland.

When: Friday, November 15, 2024, 3 - 4 pm

Where: SN2018