Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
Series produced by Fraser McCallum
Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power is a polyvocal art project initiated by Constance Hockaday that takes up and subverts the model of the Presidential Address. The Blackwood has commissioned 21 artists, thinkers, performers, and writers to create audio addresses that perform power in new and different ways, and together compose a rousing collection of imaginative proposals for the leadership we need in this moment of global crisis and possibility.
Initiated by Hockaday in 2020, a previous iteration of Artists-in-Presidents was presented alongside the 2020 US presidential election campaign, produced in partnership with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance and Stanford Live Arts. Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 brought together fifty artists to assume authority over our collective future and to address the nation over radio, podcast, social media, and in a virtual gallery. Now, commissioned in 2021 with the support of the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power continues to expand and reimagine vernaculars and aesthetics of power with the bodies and voices of brilliant thinkers, artists, writers, performers, and musicians—calling on them to assume... Show full description
26 Pieces
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- Length: 03:51
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- Added: Nov 18, 2021
- Length: 11:46
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 07:36
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- Length: 08:51
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- Added: Oct 07, 2021
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- Added: Sep 20, 2021
- Length: 09:53
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- Added: Sep 02, 2021
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 1
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- Added: Aug 27, 2021
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 1