Among others, there have been many wonderful tributes to Mr. We in the Hamon Arts Library were saddened by the news that our friend Professor Emanuel Borok passed away on January 4. Thus, when faced with the necessary closure of the SMU campus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic-like the many artists whose exhibitions were suddenly put on hold-Corris was quick to adapt the work to a digital environment.Ĭontinue reading “The Hawn Gallery Presents: Michael Corris: Incidents on a Page: Dallas-Venice Dreamscapes: 1976-2020” Categories: Exhibitions, News Tags: Art, Art History, digital exhibition, Exhibitions, Hamon Arts Library, Hawn Gallery, Michael Corris, Online Exhibition Leave a Comment on The Hawn Gallery Presents: Michael Corris: Incidents on a Page: Dallas-Venice Dreamscapes: 1976-2020 Remembering Emanuel Borok Over the course of his career Corris’s work has taken many forms, including but not limited to essayistic writing, graphic design, curation, public intervention, community activism and organization, and education, responding to the needs of a given circumstance or lived situation. His expansive practice is not easily distilled into distinct categories or media, but rather maintains a sustained engagement with and critical analysis of the conditions of production and dissemination of art. Subsequently, he began teaching art criticism and art history in England, and eventually came to Dallas as Chair of the Division of Art at SMU in 2009. Corris has been active as an artist since the early 1970s, first as a member of the collective Art & Language in New York, and later, as a founding editor of the publications The Fox and Red Herring. The Hawn Gallery is pleased to present an online exhibition, Incidents on a Page: Dallas-Venice Dreamscapes, 1976-2020, of new works by artist, writer and SMU professor of art, Michael Corris. Michael Corris: Incidents on a Page: Dallas-Venice Dreamscapes: 1976-2020 Michael Corris, Incident on a Page XI: Self-Help (2016). The results were provocative and enlightening on a number of levels.Ĭontinue reading “Footage Found – SMU student collaborative project between Meadows and Jones Film and Video Collection” Categories: Guest Blogs, News, Special Collections Leave a Comment on Footage Found – SMU student collaborative project between Meadows and Jones Film and Video Collection The Hawn Gallery Presents: Michael Corris: Incidents on a Page: Dallas-Venice Dreamscapes: 1976-2020
This project was a fascinating opportunity for students to gain experience of working directly with an archive while also learning what it can mean to make a new artwork from existing materials.
The students were provided footage from the WFAA TV News Film archive, part of the Jones Collection’s holdings, to create new works from and which resulted in a screening at Top Ten Records hosted by the D/FW Experimental Film Society (DEx). William Jones Film and Video Collection at SMU. William Jones Film and Video Collectionįootage Found was a collaborative project between students in the Video Art course (ASPH 3315) in the Meadows Division of Art and the G. Original footage from WFAA Newsfilm Collection, G. Hobbes Reynolds, Media Supervision, 2020.