THE GAME IS NOT THE THING: SPORT AND THE MOVING IMAGE
Curated by Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
October 11 – November 8, 2024
No time for winners (or losers)! Spanning 13 decades of filmmaking, from pre-cinema to post-internet, guest curators Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere’s six-part screening and performance series challenges the idea that the worlds of sports and art are mutually exclusive. The Game is Not the Thing offers an antidote to commercial documentary and mainstream feature film narratives, looking instead to the creative and critical approaches that artists and amateurs bring to the “sports film.”
Artists: Haig Aivazian, Santiago Álvarez, Ottomar Anschütz, Pamela Belding, Skip Blumberg, Jon Bois, Torika Bolatagici, Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Claude Fournier & Claude Jutra, Mark Bradford, Pedro Burns, Tintin Cooper, Charles Dekeukeleire, William K.L. Dickson, Doplgenger, Thomas A. Edison, Köken Ergun, Nicole Franklin, Bonnie Friedman, Haile Gerima, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Ana Hušman, I AM A BOYS CHOIR, Internet, Takashi Ito, Adam Khalil & Adam Piron, Guy Kozak, Iyabo Kwayana, Karen Luong, Louis Malle, Gao Mingyan, Babeth Mondini-VanLoo, Darius Clark Monroe, Antoni Muntadas, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Nam June Paik, C.F. Partoon, Sondra Perry, Pied La Biche, Keith Piper, Rachel Rampleman, Macon Reed, Fethi Sahraoui, Markus Scherer, Lillian Schwartz, Ashley Hans Sheirl & Ursula Pürrer, Shen Jie (Central News Documentary Film Studio), Martine Syms, Salla Tykkä, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, dana washington-queen, Zhang Qing
Related Essay: “No Time for Winners”
Program Info: https://walkerart.org/calendar/2024/series/the-game-is-not-the-thing-sport-and-the-moving-image