Event - ONLINE: Systemic (il)logics: Cameron A Granger & Kara Güt in Conversation

ONLINE: Systemic (il)logics: Cameron A Granger & Kara Güt in Conversation

01.12.25, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

A black hooded figure emerges from within a crate. Their right hand is on the outside of the crate, while their left hand shows us a snake skin.

Detail of Cameron A. Granger, "Hollow Folk #1 - The Resurrection of Henry “Box” Brown," 2024, Wooden crate, cast silicone hands, charcoal, stainless steel swords, 4x cotton hoodie from Grae & Owen, snake skin, dried flowers, twine, shop rags, laser printer. Photo: Hai Zhang

Join Cameron A. Granger and Kara Güt online in an artist-built Lego Fortnite playscape as they expand upon the constructed systems of power explored in Cameron A. Granger: 9999. Heat up your Sunday dinner and explore Granger and Güt’s constructed village as they discuss gaming architecture’s parallels to discriminatory urban design, modding as a mechanism of imagining beyond constraints, and defined systems of play.

 

To join this program, please download Lego Fortnite on your preferred gaming device. Alternatively, you can tune in through YouTube Live. Please check back for a stream link. 

 

About the Artists:

 

Cameron A. Granger (b. Cleveland, OH, 1993) is an In Situ Artist Fellow at the Queens Museum. He attended Euclid, OH public schools and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Granger has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions at No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH (2022); Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2019), and Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (2018), among others. He has shown in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2022), Jack Shainman The School, Kinderhook, NY (2022), and The Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE (2021), among others. Granger was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2022). His film, Before I Let Go, was awarded Best Experimental Film and the Audience Award at the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival. Granger’s work can be found in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. He is a member of MINT Collective & ACRE Residency. Granger lives and works between Columbus, OH and Queens, NY.

 

Kara Güt (b. 1989, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary focus is image-based, digital media. Her work investigates the new shape of human intimacy formed by internet lifestyle, constructed detachment from reality, and the power dynamics of the virtual. Güt received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. Solo shows include Presence at IRL Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Crystal Magic Weapon at Open Space, Baltimore, Maryland. Recent group shows include Daily Rush: Season 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and The Retreat at Arebyte Gallery, London, England.