Across Common Grounds: Media Installations with the Museum of Art

An image of the schedule for two media installations during the week of October 21, 2024

October 22 – 25, 2024

Video works by Amber Imrie and Shey R铆 Acu Rivera R铆os will play throughout this week at IM Studio in Coram Library.聽Mano de Obra, Rivera鈥檚 piece, is an immersive expanded version of their gold annotated photograph of their family home in Puerto Rico, bringing viewers into the image. Amber Imrie鈥檚聽Queering Redneck听蝉别谤颈别蝉 are video performances of the artist using their body and queer identity to challenge the myths and stereotypes attributed to the ‘Redneck’ persona. Guests are welcome to drop in at any time while these videos are playing.聽

Tuesday, October 22:

  • 9-12,听Mano de Obra
  • 1-4,听Queering Redneck

Wednesday, October 23:

  • 9-12,听Queering Redneck
  • 1-4,听Mano de Obra

Thursday, October 24:

  • 9-12,听Mano de Obra
  • 1-4,听Queering Redneck听蝉别谤颈别蝉

Friday, October 25:

  • 9-12,听Queering Redneck听蝉别谤颈别蝉
  • 1-4,听Mano de Obra

About the Artists

  • Amber Imrie uses their background growing up in a back-to-the-lander family in the Arkansas Ozarks to intertwine practices of textile arts with photography to address concepts of labor and leisure, and 鈥渜ueer鈥� the landscape by suggesting alternative forms of care models. 
  • Shey R铆 Acu Rivera R铆os, who is from Puerto Rico and currently lives in Rhode Island, uses interdisciplinary works to connect communities suffering from the impacts of overarching colonial and capitalist narratives by drawing in aspects of home and belonging