Lecture: Bill Arning "Chantal Ackerman - Moving Through Time and Space"

Bill Arning, Curator of the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, to Discuss the Works of Filmmaker Chantal Ackerman at Roger Williams University

The School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation presents Bill Arning, well-known art critic and curator, on Wednesday, March 12, at 6:00 PM in the School of Architecture.
The event is free and open to the public.
Bill Arning has been curator since 2000 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where he has organized Cerith Wyn Evans–Thoughts Unsaid, Now Forgotten . . . (2004), AA Bronson’s Mirror Mirror ( 2002), Son et Lumière (2004), and, with co-curator Ian Berry, America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler (2006). As director and chief curator of the alternative space White Columns from 1985 to 1996, Arning organized the first New York exhibitions for many significant artists of the period and was a frequent writer on art for Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Parkett, and Art in America.
has been curator since 2000 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where he has organized (2004), 2002), (2004), and, with co-curator Ian Berry, (2006). As director and chief curator of the alternative space White Columns from 1985 to 1996, Arning organized the first New York exhibitions for many significant artists of the period and was a frequent writer on art for , , and

has been curator since 2000 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where he has organized (2004), 2002), (2004), and, with co-curator Ian Berry, (2006). As director and chief curator of the alternative space White Columns from 1985 to 1996, Arning organized the first New York exhibitions for many significant artists of the period and was a frequent writer on art for , , and

has been curator since 2000 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where he has organized (2004), 2002), (2004), and, with co-curator Ian Berry, (2006). As director and chief curator of the alternative space White Columns from 1985 to 1996, Arning organized the first New York exhibitions for many significant artists of the period and was a frequent writer on art for , and
He will discuss the work of Chantal Akerman, a Brussels-born and now Paris-based filmmaker, world famous for her deconstructive style, pessimistic humor and corrosive observations of identity, sexuality, and politics. Akerman’s films have been called the single most important and coherent body of work by a women director, and her film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975) was praised by the New York Times as ”the first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of cinema”. In addition to her many short and feature films, Chantal Akerman has produced documentaries and video installations.
J. Hoberman of the The Village Voice has described Ackerman as, “Comparable in force and originality to Godard or Fassbinder, Chantal Akerman is arguably the most important European director of her generation.”