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Opening Reception — Jia Wang: Residual Imprint

Join us for an opening reception of new work by Jia Wang. On view through Oct. 20.

Jia’s work explores the traumatic memories that are prevalent in a family. Examining and displaying how trauma is revealed through complex family relationships and how it alters an individual and a family’s identity when visualized. Her work addresses both a personal and cultural perspectives, through site-specific installation comprised of video, collage, and photographic images.

In Jia’s work, she exploring domestic violence and sharing her visual inquiry into trauma through personal storytelling. These stories are both past’s future and future’s past, physically and psychologically speaking. In traditional Chinese culture, the family is the most basic unit and many aspects of Chinese life can be tied to honoring one’s parents or ancestors. Family practices, such as interactions between family members and disciplinary actions, are passed down from one generation to another. Family is the most intimate relationship but also the most confusing as love and hostility can be difficult to separate.

About Jia Wang:
Jia Wang was born in Lanzhou, Gansu Provence, China. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China and an MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Jia has exhibited internationally including in the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China, the Yeiser Art Center, Pauducah, KY, and the PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary. Her art work has published in Art Maze Mag, UK, ArtAscent Magazine, USA, and the PhotoWorld magazine, China. Residences include the Chanorth Residency Program and the Crosstown Arts Residency Program. In Fall 2019, Jia will participate in the Bronx Museum’s AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) Program.

 

Shoot & Splice: Southern Music Documentaries

Please join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for a Shoot & Splice panel discussion on Southern Music Documentaries.

Panelists include filmmakers from The Southern Documentary Project, Mary Knight (SINGING OUT), Rex Jones (BEAUTIFUL JIM), and John Rash (NEGRO TERROR). Moderated by photographer and producer Andrea Morales, the panelists will discuss various aspects of producing music documentaries; from building relationships with musicians to representing diversity in music in the south. To learn more about The Southern Documentary Project, please visit southdocs.org.

Shoot & Splice is a monthly filmmaking discussion presented collaboratively by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.

Doors at 6:30 pm | presentation at 7 pm

About the panelists:
Andrea Morales is a documentary photographer based in Memphis, Tennessee and a producer with the University of Mississippi’s Southern Documentary Project. Her photojournalistic work has been commissioned and published by outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Intercept, and NBC News. She also works with MLK50.com: Justice Through Journalism.

Mary Stanton Knight is a graduate of the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture with an MFA in Documentary Expression. She earned her Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism with an emphasis in Integrated Marketing Communications from UM’s School of Journalism. Mary received the North Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance Film Grant through the Oxford Film Festival and the Mississippi Film Alliance Emerging Filmmaker Award both in 2018 for her short documentary film, Dear Hubert Creekmore. Her films have been selected by the Oxford Film Festival, the South Georgia Film Festival, and the UM Film Festival.  Her short music documentary, Singing Out, was selected to open for filmmaker John Rash’s screenings of his award-winning feature documentary NEGRO TERROR on his North Carolina tour in the summer of 2019.

Rex Jones is a filmmaker with the Southern Documentary Project at the University of Mississippi and an instructor in the MFA in Documentary Expression program at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.  Rex’s body of work includes FLAG FLAP OVER MISSISSIPPI (2018), LA FRONTERA (2017) and LONGLEAF: THE HEART OF PINE (2016), which were broadcast on select PBS stations nationwide. BEAUTIFUL JIM (2014) won the Programmers’ Choice Award at the Crossroads Film Festival, A TIME TO ALL THINGS (2014) won the Heritage Award in Preservation Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust, and A PICKUP LOAD OF PIGS (2011) won the Award for Outstanding Media Product from the Wildlife Society. Rex is also the co-author of LECILE: THIS AIN’T MY FIRST RODEO (2015), which was the winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Excellence in Western Literature.  Rex’s current film, CAMILLE: THE ORIGINAL MONSTER STORM (2019), will make its broadcast premiere in August.