OUTSIDER SCIENCE AND PERVERSIONIST ART: AN EVENING WITH NIETO
Dir. Nieto, 2006 – 2016.
In French, Russian, and Spanish with English subtitles.
MONDAY, JULY 11 – 7:30 PM // Director in attendance!
FRIDAY, JULY 15 – 10:00 PM
Inspired equally by the obscure South American Perversionist art movement, the pseudo-scientific tradition, and the latest technologies in manipulating the filmed image, Colombian-French artist Nieto operates in a dizzying expanded cinema where reality and artifice, experiment and provocation, and even film and performance collide in an elaborate personal mythos. For one night only, Nieto will take us deep into this startling universe. It may be up to us to find our ways back out afterwards.
Surely included will be his documentary following the efforts of an enterprising Japanese science team to move beyond classic projects to teach language to non-human primates, by teaching them, instead, the language of cinema. What else? Soviet experiments in animal resurrection, the musical properties of fleas on an ordinary cat, and the secret history of Perversionism, perhaps, as well as much more. Nieto, just off a major solo show of video installation and sculptural cinema in Paris, will be presenting key moments from over a decade of work, and there’s no telling what exactly might be included. All that is certain is that it will be impossible to forget. Or at least impossible to unsee.