Staff Tour at Usdan Gallery
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Bennington staff are invited for a special tour of the Usdan Gallery exhibition Carmen Winant: Double Jeopardy.
Exhibition curator and Usdan Gallery director Anne Thompson will discuss works on view, Winant's overall practice, and the process of collaborating with the artist during exhibition design and installation.
With a practice anchored in archival research and the re-imagination of feminist material histories, Winant is celebrated for large-scale installations that re-contextualize existing photographic imagery. Double Jeopardy is her first exploration of video as both medium and historical subject matter.
Drawing on VHS tapes from the archive of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), as well as documents from the personal archive of activist Yolanda Bako, Double Jeopardy examines the formation of the domestic violence movement during the 1970s and ’80s—a period when feminist organizing, survivor advocacy, and new technology converged under urgent political and social pressures.