The Counselor for Press and Culture Affairs Ed Kulakowski is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Sanford Biggers as part of the US Embassy’s America Presents program on September 16, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. The presentation titled "The Afro-Futurist Handbook" will be held at the KinoLab of the Center for Contemporary Art (Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej) in Warsaw at Ujazdowski Castle (Al. Ujazdowskie 6).
The program is organized in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Art.
Sanford Biggers, a native of Los Angeles, California, and a resident of New York since 1999, has been exhibiting his work since the mid 1990s. Influenced by his two-year tenure in Nagoya, Japan, Mr. Biggers borrows from the study of ethnological objects, popular icons, and the Dadaist tradition to deal with cultural and creative syncretism, art history, and politics. Also an accomplished musician, Mr. Biggers often incorporates performative elements into his sculptures and installations; the end results are multilayered works that act as anecdotal vignettes, at once full of wit and clear formal intent. Mr. Biggers has won several awards including the Pennies From Heaven/ New York Community Trust Award (2004), the Tanne Foundation Award (2003), Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award Grant (2001), James Nelson Raymond Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999), and a Camille Hanks-Cosby Fellowship (1998).
RSVP: Please let us know by September 15 if you will attend.
E-mail: AmericaPresents@state.gov. Phone: 504-2395.
Please enter at between 5:45-5:55 September 16.
We hope to see you all there!
America Presents Coordinator.
U.S. Embassy web site: http://warsaw.usembassy.gov
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