Doors 6:30p
Program 7:00p

UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY

We’re delighted to welcome artist and filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland for a performance-lecture around her work Extramission: The Capture of Glowing Eyes. Through a rich interplay of thermal imaging, archival photography, and conservation footage, Rinland explores the intersections of vision, technology, and colonial histories of collection and relocation.

Drawing on early theories of sight and the pioneering work of wildlife photographer George Shiras 3rd, the project interrogates the duality of documentation—as both an act of preservation and an echo of past violences. From taxidermy restoration at London’s Natural History Museum to the return of endangered species to Argentina, Extramission considers the ways contemporary care practices reveal historical entanglements.

This performance offers a unique opportunity to hear Rinland discuss the research, methodologies, and critical questions that shape her practice, rooted in ideas of conservation and the politics of looking. Don’t miss it!

Bios

Argentine-British artist filmmaker, Jessica Sarah Rinland is a recipient of numerous prizes including Best International Film at Cinéma du Réel, and Documenta Madrid for COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE, Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival for THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER, and MIT’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts.

Her most recent solo exhibition was at Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain, subsequently traveling to Katoenhuis, Rotterdam. Previous exhibitions include University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, Taipei Biennial, Somerset House and New Contemporaries. She has had retrospectives of her films at Flaherty Film Seminar, Anthology Film Archives, Open City Documentary Film Festival, Doc’s Kingdom, London Short Film Festival, among others.

She has participated in residencies including Film Studies Center at Harvard University, Somerset House Studios, MacDowell, and Ikusmira Berriak. Her films are held at the British Film Institute.

Jacob Lindgren is a graphic designer, writer, and programmer working with and against the ways knowledge production, politics, and visual language are mediated by storytelling technologies. This usually happens through publishing, film screenings, and archival work, often around themes of self-organization and ecology. Together with friends he co-runs Inga, a bookshop in Chicago.

Previous work includes ZOO Index Reader, a book questioning the relevance of zoos and how they shape our gaze towards nonhuman animals (and ourselves); Camera Trappings, a film and dialogue series examining the anthropocentric desire to “capture” animals; and Seizing the Means of Projection, an ongoing publishing and archival effort of interviews, writing, and screenings around revolutionary filmmaking in El Salvador and international solidarities during the 1970s and 80s.