Remis Auditorium, MFA

Over the past few decades, the traditional space of the archive—physical and dusty— has sparked alternative knowledge and possibilities to contest history in the hands of visual artists and cultural activists. The archive has been mined and interrogated as actively for what it misses and hides as for what it displays and protects. More recently, following a desire for democratization, supported by a wide and effective dissemination of information and technologies to upload and store data, the static authority of the archive has been redirected to a participatory and mutable status. The production and use of contemporary digital archives problematizes notions of copyright, accessibility and permanency, offering a new form to connect with our past.

Speakers
Alloy Orchestra, Man With The Movie Camera
Jessica Borusky, Feminist Inquiry, Artistic Practice, and the Archive
Bonnie Donohue, Killing Mapepe: Sex and Death in Cold War Puerto Rico
Marianne Hirsch, Connective Memories, Digital Archives
Mike Mandel, They Came to Baghdad
Susan Meiselas, Aka Kurdistan
Chantal Zakari, They Came to Baghdad

Introductory remarks will be given by Carla Herrera-Prats, Graduate Program Director, SMFA.
Attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the MFA to gain admittance.

November 16–December 7, 2012 
SMFA Mission Hill building
160 St. Alphonsus Street
Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120

Wisecrack, irony, and tact are a few words that characterize the work in "WIT," the final show of 2012 season at SMFA's Mission Hill Gallery on view November 16–December 7, 2012. Juried by Randi Hopkins, independent curator and former associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), the works make tangible the often elusive realm of humor and include everything from political, tongue-in-cheek satire to subtle, comical incongruities. Join the artists and keep your wits about you—or lose them—at the closing reception Wednesday, December 5, 5–7 pm.

Exhibiting artists: Caroline Board , Allison Cekala, Chelsea Coon, Jenna Deluca, Gage Delprete, Ario Elami, Claire Elliott, Laura Fischman, Suje Garcia, Kimberlie Garg, Kate Gilbert, Laura Harrison, Sun Yong Hwang, Paul Ishi, Tiara Jenkins, Cody Justus, Muge Karamanci, Charlotte Lewis, Maia Lynch, Katrina Majkut, Monica Lynn Manoski, Courtney McClellan and Julia Eve Preston, Tim McCool, Cathy McLaurin, B Milder, John Neylan, David Richmond, Connie Sawyer, Molly Segal. Andrew Slezak, Gianna Stewart, Garima Tripathi, Rebecca Williams, Toshiki Yoshiro and Esther Zabronsky.