PAST CONVERSATION
‘The Adventures of Manboy and Bushie’ Extended Cut – Screening and Talkback with Tatiana Florival and Linda Ryan
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PAST CONVERSATION
‘The Adventures of Manboy and Bushie’ Extended Cut – Screening and Talkback with Tatiana Florival and Linda Ryan
Please join us at Baxter St on Saturday, February 03rd at 4PM for a screening of 2023 Baxter St Artist-in-Residence, Tatiana Florival’s, film, The Adventures of Manboy and Bushie: Time-Traveling Detectives, followed by a talkback with video artist Linda Ryan.
In The Adventures of Manboy and Bushie: Time-Traveling Detectives, two brothers go on a Space-Time Mission instead of being drafted to the Vietnam War. In this work, Florival pointedly draws on her grandfather’s Black American experience by riffing on old Western films. The work recalls her grandfather’s love for watching Westerns, while also critiquing the genre’s inherent racism and colonialism.
For the artist’s grandfather, watching the films ignited a desire for an imagined, ahistorical past. In the suspended reality of The Adventures of Manboy and Bushie, Florival’s grandfather reaches toward that desire to insert himself into any time or place, existing without violence, while black, throughout the history of America. In this extended cut, viewers will be able to watch the full narrative plot of the film, and follow Manboy and Bushie through their origin story, and various adventures through time.
Linda Ryan’s video- and dance-based performance pieces demand an intimate connection between performer and viewer. She uses GoPro cameras to explore physical embodiment through digital means. Other performances have included velcro suits and choreography based around found objects. Ryan’s explorations of digital and physical connection are anchored in the gaze, and her work is oriented by, though not always explicitly about, her experiences with visual impairment.
Ryan (she/her) has performed at the Tank, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Mark Morris Dance Center, all New York, NY; Dance Place, Arts Club of Washington, and the National Building Museum, all Washington, DC; PlySpace Gallery, Muncie, IN; and has had video work shown at the Burchfield Penney Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. She has had residencies at Nimbus Dance, the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, Keshet Dance+ Center for the Arts, and PlySpace, Muncie Arts & Culture Council. Ryan holds a BA from The George Washington University, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design.
Tatiana Florival is an artist-filmmaker based in New York City. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018. Her work has been shown in galleries such as Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), Cohen Gallery (Alfred, NY), Kunstraum Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and Woods-Gerry Gallery (Providence, RI). She has also screened her work in theaters such as the YoFi DMAC (Yonkers, NY) and the Bijou Theater(New Haven, CT).