The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art’s public gallery hours for fall 2020 are: Thursdays + Fridays: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Effective September 17 – November 20 Strict COVID-19 protocols will be in place to help keep the Halsey Institute galleries safe for all visitors!
Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home is designed to be an online exhibition, but we know that the Halsey Family has missed the galleries as much as we have. We have created a modified version of the exhibition for the galleries. Using projectors, QR codes, and large text panels, our curators organized an in-gallery experience that approximates the in-depth possibilities of the comprehensive Dis/placements website, displacements.org
In accordance with the College of Charleston’s COVID-19 precautions, all gallery visitors and Halsey Institute staff will be required to wear a cloth face covering while on the College of Charleston campus, including inside the Halsey Institute’s galleries.
The staff member at the reception desk will welcome guests from behind a Plexiglas barrier. There will be a maximum of 10 visitors inside the gallery spaces at any one time. We ask that visitors remain six feet away from others. Any exhibition information will be printed large format on the walls and available by QR code to allow for proper distancing between visitors.
Our Biblioteca reference library and the Joanna Foundation Video Cavern will remain closed until at least January 2021.
Join us for an online screening of Hamid Rahmanian’s film version of Feathers of Fire, a dazzling shadow puppet play based on the Persian epic, Shahnameh. Hamid Rahmanian is one of ten artists featured in Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home.
The vibrant graphics, derived from the visual tradition of the Middle East, are rendered as puppets, costumes, masks, scenography and digital animation, all of which come to life in a “live animation” shadow casting technique performed against a cinema-size screen.
Feathers of Fire is a cinematic shadow play for all ages. It tells the action-packed tale of Zaul and Rudabeh, two star-crossed lovers of old Persia. Zaul is raised by a mythical bird in the wild. Rudabeh is the granddaughter of the dreaded Serpent King. Their deep love for each other enables them to triumph over inconceivable odds.
A Q&A with designer and director Hamid Rahmanian will follow on Zoom directly after the screening.
Join us on Facebook Live to hear Hamid Rahmanian and Mark Sloan in conversation. Rahmanian and Sloan are one of the ten artist-respondent pairs in Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home.
Viewers will be able to ask questions via comments on Facebook Live. If you do not have a Facebook account, send your questions to halsey@cofc.edu. The video will be archived on the Dis/placements website and shared on our social media channels.
The event will occur on the Halsey Institute’s Facebook page, and there is no need to RSVP. Make sure you follow the Halsey Institute on Facebook!
Image credits
Top banner image (on event page): Hamid Rahmanian, Hero, 2006. From the Multiverse: To Myself with Love series. Archival digital print, 31” x 22” Image courtesy of the artist
Right: Hamid Rahmanian, 2500 Years Later, 2006. From the Multiverse: To Myself with Love series. Archival digital print, 11” x 17”. Image courtesy of the artist
Join us on Facebook Live to hear Renée Stout and Thetyka Robinson in conversation. Stout and the late Dr. Ade Ofunniyin are one of the ten artist-respondent pairs in Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home. Dr. O passed away on October 7, 2020. Thetyka Robinson was asked to step in and lead the conversation on Stout’s work in the Dis/placements project.
Viewers will be able to ask questions via comments on Facebook Live. If you do not have a Facebook account, send your questions to halsey@cofc.edu. The video will be archived on the Dis/placements website and shared on our social media channels.
The event will occur on the Halsey Institute’s Facebook page, and there is no need to RSVP. Make sure you follow the Halsey Institute on Facebook!
Image credits
Top banner image (on event page): Renée Stout, Slow Voyage from the Land of Cosmic Slop, 2005. Mixed media with wood, resin, bugs, 4″ x 12″ x 6″. Image courtesy of the artist
Right: Renée Stout, Master of the Universe [detail], 2011-2012. Found, altered, and assembled objects, glass, rhinestones, and organic materials, 48″ x 18″ x 18″. Image courtesy of the artist
Join us on Facebook Live to hear Hung Liu and Katie Hirsch in conversation. Liu and Hirsch are one of the ten artist-respondent pairs in Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home.
Viewers will be able to ask questions via comments on Facebook Live. If you do not have a Facebook account, send your questions to halsey@cofc.edu. The video will be archived on the Dis/placements website and shared on our social media channels.
The event will occur on the Halsey Institute’s Facebook page, and there is no need to RSVP. Make sure you follow the Halsey Institute on Facebook!
Image credits
Top banner image (on event page): Hung Liu, Bride V, 2010. Cast resin mixed media on box, hand painted by the artist, 20.5 x 20.5″. Image courtesy of Trillium Graphics
Right: Hung Liu, Important the Soldier’s Task, 2011. Cast resin mixed media on box, hand painted by the artist, 41 x 68″. Image courtesy of Trillium Graphics
Join us on Facebook Live to hear Lonnie Holley and Dr. Ted Rosengarten in conversation. Holley and Rosengarten are one of the ten artist-respondent pairs in Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home.
Viewers will be able to ask questions via comments on Facebook Live. If you do not have a Facebook account, send your questions to halsey@cofc.edu. The video will be archived on the Dis/placements website and shared on our social media channels.
The event will occur on the Halsey Institute’s Facebook page, and there is no need to RSVP. Make sure you follow the Halsey Institute on Facebook!
Image credits
Top banner image (on event page): Lonnie Holley, Sold: But We Have Others, 2017. Lawn jockey, rope, sold sign. Image courtesy of the artist
Right: Lonnie Holley, After the Revival (Vox Humana III: The Strength of Music Lives After the Instruments are Destroyed), 2017. Destroyed organ and musical instruments. Image courtesy of the artist
