Ericka Beckman
Artist Talk
live and digital
US artist and video pioneer Ericka Beckman (* 1951 in New York) talks to our director Adam Budak about her work and personal experience with gentrification in New York.
The exhibition "Fair Game" at the Kestner Gesellschaft presents the animated multimedia installation "Nanotech Players" (1988) and two films by Ericka Beckman that play a central role in her work: her first 16 mm film "You the Better" (1983) and her latest film "Reach Capacity" (2020), which will be shown for the first time in Germany. The films are separated by almost 40 years, and yet both deal with a current topic: the use of games as a means of structuring capitalist society.
Ericka Beckman lives and works in New York. With the groundbreaking exhibition The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (2009), Beckman became known as one of the protagonists of the Pictures Generation. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2019) and at the Secession in Vienna (2017), among other venues. In 2018, Kunst Werke Berlin presented a four-day screening of her works. The artist was represented in the 2019 group exhibition "Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts" at the Kestner Gesellschaft.
In addition to the on-site event, the conversation will be streamed live on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84680887491?pwd=OU52N29tZm0vWEcrRWM2RFBaWkt3dz09
Meeting-ID: 846 8088 7491
Identification code: 447887
Register for the event: kestner@kestnergesellschaft.de or Tel. 0511 - 70 120 0.
The 2G+ rule applies (vaccinated, recovered and current official Corona test). Please wear an FFP2 mask.