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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Greetings from FAR,</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Please join us this Fall for two great artist events. All events are free, remote and open to anyone who registers via the Eventbrite links below.</span></p>
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/far-away-presents-keioui-keijaun-thomas-tickets-172163484617"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="923" height="208" id="x_Picture_x0020_3" alt="/var/folders/pq/hvsg5wss0wxb_y71kvt81pr4ty3g5w/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/cidimage001.png@01D7AEEA.7176F280" style="width:9.6145in; height:2.1666in" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:image001.png@01D7AEEE.C0CB5700"></span></a></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; color:black"><a href="https://artsresearch.fsu.edu/far-away-presents-keioui-keijaun-thomas/"><span style="color:#954F72">Keioui Keijaun Thomas</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; color:black">October 12<sup>th</sup><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>@ 7pm</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">(b. 1989, based in Brooklyn, New York) creates live performance and multimedia installations that address blackness outside of a codependent, binary structure of existence. Her work investigates the
histories, symbols, and images that construct notions of Black identity within black personhood. The materials employed by Thomas function as tools, objects, and structures to compose a visual language that can be read, observed, and repeated within spatial,
temporal, and sensorial environments.<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Through movement and matter, Thomas deconstructs, and reconstructs notions of visibility, hyper-visibility, passing, trespassing, eroticized, and marginalized representations of black bodies in relation
to disposable labor, domestic service, and notions of thingness. Her performances combine rhapsodic layers of live and recorded voice, reciting her own poetry and slipping between various modes of address, to explore the pleasures and pressures of dependency,
care, and support. Thomas underscores the endurance and intimacy that care work demands from those expected to perform it — predominantly black women, black femmes, and people of color. By centering self and communal care in real-time, Thomas’ practice aims
to build bridges of understanding, and community, to create safer spaces for black people and people of color.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Q+A Session to follow artist presentation.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt; text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/far-away-presents-keioui-keijaun-thomas-tickets-172163484617"><span style="color:#954F72">Register
Here!</span></a></span></b></p>
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/far-away-sonnenzimmer-tickets-176406485547"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif"><img border="0" width="625" height="187" id="x_Picture_x0020_2" alt="/var/folders/pq/hvsg5wss0wxb_y71kvt81pr4ty3g5w/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/cidimage002.png@01D7AEEA.7176F280" style="width:6.5104in; height:1.9479in" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:image002.png@01D7AEEE.C0CB5700"></span></span></a></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://artsresearch.fsu.edu/far-and-away-presents-sonnenzimmer/"><span style="color:#954F72">Sonnenzimmer</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:#333333">Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:#333333">November 9<sup>th</sup><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>@ 7pm</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">Sonnenzimmer is the collaborative practice of artists Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi. Their work investigates and challenges preconceived notions of
the graphic arts. Their experimental studio was established in 2006 in Chicago. Together, they explore the physical and psycho-physical nature of visualization through image-making, sculpture, writing, publishing, exhibitions, design, music, and performance.
While they move through an array of media, their focus is on triangulating a deeper understanding of graphic expression at large.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Their research during their residency at FAR revolves around the concept of the Holographic Principle.<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; font-weight:normal">The
Holographic Principle</span></strong><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>is a concept in modern physics hypothesizing that our three dimensional world has a two dimensional representation on the horizon of the universe. This “horizon” marks the physical
edge of knowable space, at which it is expanding in every direction.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">They are fascinated by the implications of this theory, especially with how it might relate to two dimensional structures here on earth, such as images.<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The culmination of their research will result in a performative lecture presentation. Q+A session to follow.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"> </span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/far-away-sonnenzimmer-tickets-176406485547"><span style="color:#954F72">Register
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Thank you and I hope to see you at these events!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Kiley Brandt</span></p>
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