The Grandmother Hypothesis is an essay film by Buzz Slutzky that explores the artist’s relationship to their Jewish Texan family history, inherited trauma, and artistic practice. Using voiceover narration, family interviews, archival footage, images from instructional manuals and family scrapbooks, and drawings,Slutzky tells the story of their grandmother Sylvia, or “Syb,” and her life as an artist, educator, and parent with a lifelong injury resulting from possible child abuse. The film draws together witches, intuition, hands, paper, and what our ancestors leave behind.
Buzz Slutzky (they/them) is a non-binary/transgender and Jewish multidisciplinary artist, educator, writer, filmmaker, and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work uses intimacy and humor to bring juiciness into historical research and autobiographical narrative. Buzz’s practice juxtaposes text and image through video, drawing, performance, pyrography (woodburning) and other mediums. Slutzky has exhibited work at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Assembly Room, Cooper Union, MIX Film Festival, and Dixon Place, all New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and Haverford College, both PA; Boston Center for the Arts, MA; Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA); and Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Slutzky was an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center and NARS Foundation and participated in the Triple Canopy Publication Intensive and the Creative Capital Summer Intensive. They currently teach at The New School and SUNY Purchase. Slutzky received their BA from Sarah Lawrence College and their MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design.
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24 авг 2022
