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The Influence of
Influence: Early Works
and Recent Takes by
Romuald Karmakar
February 4–28
The Influence of Infl
u-
ence gave viewers insight
into two early documentaries
by the filmmaker
Romuald Karmakar—Sam
Shaw on John Cassavetes
(1990) and Hellman Rider
(1988)—that explore the
nature of artistic inspiration
through conversations
with influential fi
g-
ures of American film and
Hollywood. The exhibit
also featured a new clip
every day, 19 Clips
for 19 Days, which examined
the continuing
“influence of infl
uence”
and the people and places
from which inspiration is
drawn.
Karmakar was a David
and Roberta Logie Fellow
and a Radcliffe-Harvard
Film Study Center Fellow.
BOB O’CONNOR
DAVID LEVINE CREATED
A NEW VIDEO FROM HIS
FATHER’S FILM AND
AUDIO RECORDINGS,
AND HE INCLUDED
IN THE EXHIBIT
SCATTERED PIECES OF
EVIDENCE.
Square of Paranoia
May 9–May 31
The artist David Levine’s work explores the conditions of performance and spectatorship across a variety of media, including theater,
video, pedagogy, and visual arts. His exhibit attempted to make sense of cassettes, black-and-white negatives, Super 8 footage, and scattered
pieces of evidence that he found in late 2010. The films and recordings were made by Levine’s father—an anthropologist—who
was implicated in an art-world scandal in 1970. Levine’s parents divorced in 1973, and his father died when Levine was 10. The exhibit’s
title is drawn from a hallucination his father experienced on his deathbed.
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