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Live Performance: ‘Ghost Work’ by EL Putnam

January 27, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

Join Emerson Contemporary for a live performance of Ghost Work by video and performance artist EL Putnam. Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri define ghost work as the hidden human labor that powers our digital systems. In the performance of this title, Putnam acts as the human mediator between two generative animation systems, making visible the labor that responds to and produces data, as her body acts as the database of lived experience.

EL Putnam is an artist-philosopher working in performance art, video, sound, and digital media. Her practice focuses on borders and entanglements, particularly the interplay of the corporeal with the machinic. Through her artistic practice, she is interested in exploring hidden histories and emotional experiences, testing the limits of their un-representability as she takes the familiar and makes it strange. In particular, she probes our gestural relationship to digital technology using wearable electronics in live performance, through the creation of responsive multimedia installations, and the crafting of short moving image and sound pieces.

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Date:
January 27, 2023
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
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Website:
https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/live-performance-ghost-work-by-el-putnam/

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Emerson Contemporary
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617-824-8667
Email
contemporary@emerson.edu
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