Return to Valhalla, video with the artist

[April 22, 2025, 6-7pm EST] Through salvaged artworks, travel videos, and recuperative actions, Return to Valhalla is an essay film that traces the scale of the personal against that of the epic. It has a particular sense of lost time, and of blurred boundaries between realities lived, imagined, and hypothesized. An obsession is lived out in pursuit of the elements of a 30 year old trauma: can what seems fated be rewritten through some digging in history, or language, or location?

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Koloto Siraji: NABBUZANA, the melting Moon

[December 14, 10–11 a.m. ET] This live performance will take place in Jinja, Uganda and will be broadcast live via the Franklin Furnace LOFT. "Nabbuzana" is an exploration into the depths of African traditional rituals, particularly the hwambula ritual in Uganda, which seeks to liberate spirits ensnared by human constraints.

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American Aria: screening

[January 6, 2025, Film Screening 2:00–8:30 PM ET, Followed by Q&A Until 9:30 PM] American Aria is a 6-hour, 11-minute durational video installation that invites audiences to reflect on the transgressive events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. This event is presented in collaboration with Oakwood Arts/OAJet Productions.

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Breaking the Code – Vernon Fisher Film Premiere

September 18th, 6pm ET. "Breaking the Code" explored the life and career of Vernon Fisher, featuring interviews with Dave Hickey and Frances Colpitt, the film, winner of "Best Historical Film" at the 2023 Dallas International Film Festival.

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Dragging the Archive Virtual Tour

A virtual tour of the exhibition Dragging the archive: Re:Encounters with Franklin Furnace’s cyber beginnings by Elly Clarke, on view January 19, 2023 through April 6, 2023 onsite at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library and online via Zoom

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