I’ll start out by saying that Sanford Biggers is a very complex artist, and while I liked the obvious involvedness of his work, it was hard to take notes at his lecture.
Sanford Biggers came to talk to us this week from his home in New York. With a culmination of sculpture, video, music and other media, Bigger’s work mixes African culture with hip-hop and pop culture in America. His complex pieces are made in heavily involved processes, in order to communicate ideas of race, social standings of the past and black culture.
One of the first pieces we got to see was a break dance floor that he colored with a design. This piece has been displayed in galleries and danced on within the galleries as well. To comment on how a space becomes its own and how its treated, Biggers filmed dancers from above the tiled break dance floor and articulated how it was a sacred space to those dancers, like their own place for spirituality. I thought this was really awesome because I feel like I was talking about this in my post on H. Bosch!
Mandala of the B-Bodhisattva II, Sanford Biggers. Hand colored rubber tiles, 16x16 feet. http://www.sanfordbiggers.com
During the lecture, Biggers shared a video he made in collaboration with a white artist. Together they combined similar home movies of their families and created a whole different movie. It was an obvious comment that although they’re of different races, they’re no different from each other.
A Small World, Sanford Biggers, in collaboration with Jennifer Zackin. 6:30 minute silent color DVD. http://www.sanfordbiggers.com/
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