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Blue/Blue Double Feature Screening: Blue Description Project (BDP) & Notes on Blue
September 19, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Jacobs Hall
Free
This event is wheelchair accessible via our main entrance and an accessible seating area is available inside Jacobs Hall. For any specific accommodation please e-mail info@mcasd.org. There will be ASL Interpretation for the duration of this event provided by Deaf Community Services of San Diego.
Join us for Blue/Blue, a double feature screening of The Blue Description Project (BDP), 2024, by Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Jones, created in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Hayden of Voices in the Gallery, and Notes on Blue, 2015, by Moyra Davey.
We encourage arriving early to grab refreshments from The Kitchen before entering the museum. No RSVP required. Entry will be first come first serve.
Schedule
5PM: Doors Open
5:30PM: Introductions
5:50PM: Screenings begin.
Christopher Robert Jones, Liza Sylvestre, Sarah Hayden, Blue Description Project, 2024. Digital movie, captions, 1h20m
7:25PM: Break
7:35PM: Screenings resume.
Moyra Davey, Notes on Blue, 2015. Color video with sound, 28m
About The Blue Description Project (2024)
The Blue Description Project (BDP) is an audio description and captioning project—produced by Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts in collaboration with Voices in the Gallery— that engages Derek Jarman's Blue (1993) via expanded and critical accessibility. As Jarman wrote in Chroma (1994): “If I have overlooked something you hold precious—write it in the margin.” BDP takes up this invitation by creating a new, experimental iteration of Blue on the 30th anniversary of its release and Jarman’s death. The BDP iteration features creative captions and audio descriptions that have been sourced from numerous contributors. It attempts to convey, express, engage, respond, evoke, articulate, replicate, translate, transmogrify, channel, and transcend what Blue is/was/could be.
Audio Description Only version: HERE (PW: 5JGEfbWgFN62GNP)
About Notes on Blue (2015)
Moyra Davey's 28-minute video is a lyrical film essay that interweaves various biographies-including those of Derek Jarman, poet Anne Sexton, writer Jorge Luis Borges, and the artist herself-to explore blindness, color, and identity.
Moyra Davey, Still from "Notes on Blue," 2015. Courtesy the artist, greengrassi, London; Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York. © Moyra Davey.
Funders
For Dear Life is among more than 60 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art
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Top: Christopher Robert Jones, Liza Sylvestre, Sarah Hayden, Still from "Blue Description Project," 2024. Courtesy of the artists.