May 23 — Film Screening, Wright Hall, Main
Theatre
Teknolust (2002, 82 min.) and Logics Paralyzes the
Heart (2021, 13 min.)
4-7 p.m.
Tilda Swinton stars in the feature
film Teknolust as a geneticist who creates a
formula allowing her to place her DNA into her own cyborg
creations. A 61-year-old cyborg narrates the short
film Logic Paralyzesthe Heart, and
discusses the body’s integration into digital and military-based
systems of control. Hershman Leeson wrote, produced, and directed
Teknolust while working in the UC Davis Department of
Art and Art History. The screenings are followed by a Q&A
with the artist.
May 24 – Film Screening, Wright Hall, Main
Theatre
!Women Art Revolution (2012, 83 min.)
Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film
and video footage, !Women Art
Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused
free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed
the art and culture of our times. The body’s integration into
digital and military-based systems of control. Written, directed,
edited, and produced by Hershman Leeson.
The screening is followed by a Q&A with the artist.
Teknolust is rated R for sexual content and nudity.
Films may contain sensitive content, including trauma, hunger and
body dysmorphia, divorce, and childhood physical and sexual
abuse.
Both screenings are organized by The Manetti Shrem California
Studio in the Department of Art and Art History.
UC Davis is hosting two internationally acclaimed artists who
will give public talks, screen films and work directly with
students in May. Lynn Hershman Leeson and Shimon Attie are
presented by The Manetti Shrem California Studio in the
Department of Art and Art History, housed in the College of
Letters and Science. The California Studio is part of UC Davis
art studio and underwritten by a gift from Jan Shrem and Maria
Manetti Shrem.
