ArtCenter/South Florida & O Cinema Wynwood invite you to the opening reception of Transmission, an exhibition by Laurencia Strauss and Fifty-Fifty. Enjoy a light brunch with mimosas and the film screening of Le Maison en Petits Cubes and Thule Tuvalu, followed by a participatory event.

During the film screenings, the artists will encourage people to doodle. After the films, they will open a discussion and ask people to write or draw an experience of Miami that they would want to share with the fish who will eventually live in our city. The stories will be collected and become part of the larger print-based installation in the exhibition space at O Cinema Wynwood. These will also be part of a video of the artists telling the stories, by reading or describing them, to fish off the coast of Miami.

FILMS
Le Maison en Petits Cubes
12min | Animation, Short, Drama | 2010
Director: Kunio Kato; Writers: Kunio Kato, Kenya Hirata

Thule Tuvalu
1h 36min | Documentary, News | 2015
Director and writer: Matthias von Gunten

ABOUT THE PROJECTS
Laurencia Strauss and Fifty-Fifty present a pair of projects that navigate hope and doom to materialize personal and collective responses to sea level rise.

In Strauss’ Talking to Satellites, a series of photographs spell a phrase. Each letter is formed as video and GPS track her bicycle movements on an ocean pier. The project connects the impending transformation of an individual’s life with that of a Florida island landscape.

Fifty-Fifty (an art collective formed by Lisa Bulawsky and Laurencia Strauss) presents a new project, Stories for Fishes, which includes film screenings, public dialogue, and collective visual responses that will be shared underwater with fish and other sea creatures – the eventual heirs to the land we now call home.

Free & Open to the public.