ArtBabble: Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems: "The Kitchen Table Series"

Art21 — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:27:12 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #138: Filmed in her Syracuse studio, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses the impetus for her work "The Kitchen Table Series" (1990), a photographic investigation of a single domestic space in which the artist staged scenes of "the battle around the family" between women and men, friends and lovers, parents and children.

Carrie Mae Weems: "Roaming"

Art21 — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:56:35 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #119: Carrie Mae Weems describes the impetus for her series Roaming (2006). An investigation into “the edifice of power,” Weems performed a series of photographic actions throughout Rome, Italy, contrasting her body with grand architectural structures and monumental surroundings.

Carrie Mae Weems & David Alan Grier: In Conversation

Art21 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:34:37 +0000

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Carrie Mae Weems and David Alan Grier have an intimate discussion on a range of topics including childhood idols, the definition of blackness, race and politics during Obama's presidency, and a desire to make work that addresses not only personal identity but also the broader human condition. With the pitch and timbre of an accomplished storyteller, Carrie Mae Weems uses colloquial forms-jokes, songs, rebukes-in photographic series that scrutinize subjectivity and expose pernicious stereotypes.

Carrie Mae Weems: Thirteen Questions for Wynton Marsalis & Cornel West

Art21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:18:22 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #078: As part of a panel discussion moderated by Baraka Sele at the 20th National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, artist Carrie Mae Weems poses thirteen questions to musician Wynton Marsalis and professor Cornel West, followed by an impromptu song and dance by the participants and audience.

Carrie Mae Weems: Season 5 Preview (October 2009)

Art21 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:33:30 +0000

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This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Compassion premiering on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

Compassion features three artists—William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems—whose works explore conscience and the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.