EIU Tarble Arts Center

Force Majeure

Shirin Neshat, Rapture, 1999, Film still | © Shirin Neshat; Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels

Hannah Black, micha cárdenas, Shirin Neshat, Pipilotti Rist, Janaina Tschäpe, and Carrie Mae Weems

September 24–December 4, 2021

Main Galleries and Outdoors

This exhibition traces the history of video and technology as media that amplified the voices of feminist discourse from second- to third- and fourth-wave aesthetics and strategies. The significance of the title Force Majeure is threefold: it recognizes the power of historical and contemporary demands for voice and visibility; it suggests the ways that nature and the landscape appear within the works in the exhibition; and it acknowledges contingency, as in the force majeure clause that is common in contracts. The exhibition presents a focused selection of influential contemporary video and media works installed throughout the Tarble's gallery and outdoor spaces.

Resource guide by Booth Library

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