March 10th, 2013

Film and Exhibition Explore Personal and Impersonal Issues with Illegal Immigration

Free Film Screening on Tuesday, March 12, at 7pm
in the Helmut Stern Auditorium @ UMMA

As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children. Director Rebecca Cammisa tracks the journey of several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the US on a freight train they call “The Beast.” Two short films on undocumented migration precede the main screening.

The screening is presented in conjunction with the UM Institute for the Humanities exhibition State of Exception which curates objects from Jason De León’s Undocumented Migration Project, the largest assemblage of migrant artifacts in the country. The exhibition is a collaboration between De León, UM assistant professor of anthropology, artist/photographer Richard Barnes, and IH curator Amanda Krugliak, and runs at the IH Gallery (202 S. Thayer Street) through March 12, 2013.

Jason De León and Amanda Krugliak will lead a guided tour and Q&A of State of Exception at the Institute for Humanities immediately following the screening.

To learn more about the exhibition, State of Exception, check out the article “Curating the Traces of Illegal Immigration” on hyperallergic.com

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December 5th, 2012

Time, Narrative and Voyeurism in Video Panel Discussion

Y. David Chung, Osman Khan, Lily Cox-Richard, and Amanda Krugliak 
Wednesday, December 5, 2012; 5:30PM
UMMA Multipurpose Room, 525 S. State

As part of their exciting new Hub lecture series, the Institute for the Humanities offers a visit to UMMA’s exhibition Jesper Just: This Nameless Spectacle (on view through December 9), followed by an engaging discussion about time, narrative, and voyeurism in video with Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design professors Y. David Chung, Osman Khan, and Lily Cox-Richard, and Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak. 

Audiences are invited to enjoy the exhibition in the New Media Gallery from 5:30 to 6pm. The discussion will follow in the Multipurpose Room.

Image: Jesper Just, This Nameless Spectacle, 2011
Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, and Galleri Nicolai Wallner
©Jesper Just 2011

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July 11th, 2012

Creative Catalyst: Detroit and the Abandoned Packard Plant
Artist perspective on decay vs creation within Detroit.
Featuring artists Scott Hocking, Paul Kaiser, and Amanda Krugliak.
Interview footage shot and recorded by Sarah Nesbitt.
Edited by Sharad Kant Patel

Each year U of M’s Institute for the Humanities invites a variety of scholars, writers, artists and performers from outside the university for residencies. During their residencies, visiting fellows contribute creatively and diversely to the intellectual community of the institute, the university, and the community by giving talks, meeting with students and colleagues, as well as working on their own projects.

Detroit artist Scott Hocking and Paul Kaiser (of OpenEndedGroup) have both participated in the
Visiting Artist Fellowship program at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities.

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