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Zoe Beloff at MoMA
Filmmaker talks Coney Island exhibition, more at Modern Modays
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The Museum of Modern Art’s “Modern Mondays” series continues January 18, 2010 with “An Evening with Zoe Beloff”. The night will include a talk with filmmaker and innovator Zoe Beloff as she discusses her works including The Influencing Machine of Miss Natalija A, The Somnambulists and Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle 1926–1972, which is currently on exhibition at Coney Island. Beloff is known for her work examining the bridge between seemingly disparate worlds—the living and the dead, truth and fiction, the real and the imagined—and artistically representing this fusion. Specifically, Beloff attempts to investigate the unconscious processes of the mind and record these mental states. The work is as innovative as it is awe-inspiring, and the artist will be on hand to discuss it all.
Particularly of interest to New Yorkers is Beloff’s recent work Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle 1926–1972. The exhibition, which begins at Sigmund Freud’s visit to the Coney Island amusement park a century ago, fits perfectly in the annals of the Zoe Beloff collection. Examining the nation analysis craze at the turn of the century and conscious and sub-conscious notions in general, Dreamland offers a slice of New York City history through the lens of Zoe Beloff, who will also be screening a selection of “Dream Films ”from the exhibition.
“An Evening with Zoe Beloff” will be held at Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2 at MoMA January 18, 2010 at 7:02 pm. For more information or to purchase tickets please visit www.moma.org.