Visiting Artists Lectures (VALS) present, as Part 3 of Spring 2024 Art Alumni Film Festival:

The Tuba Thieves, by Alison O’Daniel

Respondent: Fatimah Tobing Rony, Professor of Film and Media Studies, UCI

Tues, May 14, 2024
6-8 p.m.

Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)
Colloquium Room, 3rd Floor
University of California, Irvine

Alison O’Daniel, a visual artist and filmmaker, is the director of The Tuba Thieves, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023, and went on to screen at CPH Dox, MOMA Doc Fortnight, SFFILM, IDFA and other international festivals. O’Daniel is d/Deaf and builds a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary in her work that reveals (or proposes) a politics of sound that exceeds the ear. She is a United States Artist Disability Futures Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her artwork has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Art in General, New York; Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Argos Center for Audiovisual Arts, Brussels and many other international museums and galleries. O’Daniel has received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Field of Vision; ITVS; Chicken & Egg; SFFILM. She has attended residencies at the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program; Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2019 25 New Faces of Independent Film issue. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council Gallery in Los Angeles and is an Associate Professor in the Film Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

For more information or questions, please contact Prof. Simon Leung at leungss@uci.edu