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Art Class: screening and Q&A with Andrea Luka Zimmerman
May 14 @ 7:00 pm
Join us for a screening of Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film Art Class (2020) and conversation with Andrea.
Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award-winning artist and filmmaker whose multi-layered practice explores fragile refusals and counter memories, itinerant lives, human and otherwise, in relation to structural and political injustice.
Art Class (2020, 49 mins) is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title. It uses the tropes of scholarly presentation and personal confession alongside extracts from the artist’s work, guest interventions, martial arts and meditation exercises and evidentiary found material.
The film tests the limits of access that working-class artists have to cultural production and to the relevant institutions circulating these outcomes. Alternately playful and provocative, serious and satirical, Art Class favors wit over weaponizing and reflection over rhetoric but does not pull its punches when it comes to the real obstructions to working class creative progress, or to the strategies necessary to overcome such outmoded hindrances.
The event will take place on Tuesday, 14th May, at 7pm at the Main Hall of the Feminist Library, where people are invited to join us in seeing Andrea’s film Art Class, which will be followed by a friendly discussion with Anne Robinson and the audience, talking about the intersections of these two notions. There will be drinks and snacks available.