May 7
MATTER MATTERS: GROWING IS GRIEVING, Artist Talk with Jodie Mack
We are proud to welcome Jodie Mack to campus!
Jodie Mack is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things.
Join us as Jodie Mack gives an Artist Talk titled MATTER MATTERS: GROWING IS GRIEVING.
Animators are gardeners. The very definition of animation illuminates the medium’s capacity to bring things to life. In this artist talk, Jodie Mack shares her latest explorations using plants and other natural materials to center animation as a site that resists taxonomical classification and the rigidity of natural history in favor of illuminating the ineffable.
This visit is made possible by Cinema and Media Studies Department, Calvin-Blodgett Fund, Office of the Provost, Distinguished Women Visitor’s Fund, International Film Forum, Music Department, Theater and Dance Department, and the Christopher U. Light Lectureship in the Arts.