German-Japanese American artist Kota Ezawa looks to the news, popular culture, art history, and cinema to source material for his work, which explores how recording technologies mediate our understanding of current events and images. Beginning with his 2002 video The Simpson Verdict, in which the artist used digital drawing software to animate footage of the O.J. Simpson trial, Ezawa has received critical acclaim for his videos, lightboxes, and works on paper that distill found imagery into his characteristic pared-down style. Ezawa joins Hirshhorn associate curator Marina Isgro to discuss his process of translating iconic media moments into opportunities for reconsideration and reflection.

Catharine Clark Gallery’s online debut of Nina Katchadourian’s "Orientation Video" (2020) tells the compelling and complex story of the artist’s 45-year engagement with the book Survive the Savage Sea, the true story of the Robertsons, a family of farmers in England who sold all their possessions to buy a sailboat, with the intent of sailing around the world for several years. In June 1972, the Robertsons lost their sailboat in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean when a pod of Orca smashed the hull, leaving the four adults and two children adrift for 38 days; Katchadourian’s "Orientation Video" tells the family’s story, as well as the artist’s own creative response to the book’s core themes of isolation, uncertainty, and survival.

Multidisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian walks through her solo exhibition To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World via Zoom with special guest Douglas Robertson, the oldest son of the shipwrecked Robertson family featured in the true-life story Survive the Savage Sea (1973). E-mail Anton Stuebner, Director, for advance registration.

On the occasion of the opening of Ross Simonini's first US solo show at Et al., we are hosting a talk between Simonini and Et al. co-director Aaron Harbour in which they will speak about repetition, language, the subconscious, refusal, the miracle of soil, and more, or maybe less.

In conjunction with 4x8-bridges, Haines Gallery presents an exclusive online screening of Kota Ezawa's 2004 animated video, Lennon Sontag Beuys. Lennon Sontag Beuys is based on existing footage of impassioned public speeches addressing notions of peaceful protest.

A virtual roundtable presentation with four artists from Oakland’s artist-run Mercury 20 Gallery. Kathleen King, Chris Komater, Mary Curtis Ratcliff and Johanna Poethig introduce themselves, present a sampling of their work, and talk about inspiration, process, and connection.

Mercury 20 Gallery artist Christine Meuris is your guide on a virtual walkthrough of our annual, holiday-season group show, this year titled 2020 RE:VISION. The gallery is filled with work that researches questions arising from tumultuous change and responds to this year’s simultaneous feelings of doom and liberation, collapse and possibility.

San Francisco based sculptor Charlie Leese and New York based multi-disciplinary artist Ellie Hunter will discuss their studio practices and whatever else comes to mind.