Artist Talk & Dedication of Renée Green's Space Poem #15

You are invited to a dedication of Space Poem #15 (To the Remembered Earth), a newly commissioned sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist Renée Green in Academic Instructional Center West (AW). The dedication will be proceeded by a moderated artist talk with Renée Green.

Schedule of Events: 

Artist Talk | 5:30–6:30 PM in Academic West 210

Dedication Ceremony & Reception | 6:30–7:30 PM at Academic West Skybridge

We kindly request that attendees register for the event at the link provided. 

About Space Poem #15

Space Poem #15 (To the Remembered Earth) is part of an extended body of work by Renée Green. In talking about her Space Poems, the artist said, “Space Poems are open-ended and capacious. In them, it’s possible for me to retrieve many things. Existing in a variety of spaces, Space Poems allow room for combining fragments of encounters of diverse kinds.” Suspended colorful banners feature powerful texts in Green’s Space Poems. As viewers move through the rooms animated by the suspended artwork, they respond to the vivid environment and find meaning in the compelling poetry of the words. Green is celebrated for her multi-media installations in which ideas, perception, and memory combine and reflect a myriad experiences both past and present.

Three locations across the WWU campus feature distinct installations of Green’s Space Poem No. 15 (To the Remembered Earth). Suspended banners appear in the skybridge between the Academic Instructional Center East and West. Double-sided panels are suspended in the lobby windows of WWU’s Interdisciplinary Science Building. Windows of the Western Gallery entry foyer in the Fine Arts Building are the third location for this artwork. Although the artworks are all indoors, importantly they are very visible outdoors too. Green said, “These sites were chosen to create a meandering path among specific works in the current Campus Sculpture Collection that resonate with my intellectual and aesthetic interests and trajectory.”

About Renée Green

Renée Green is an internationally recognized artist, writer, and filmmaker. In the past year alone, Green has held solo exhibitions at Dia: Beacon in New York and Auroras in São Paulo, Brazil. Other notable achievements include: 

• A five-year residency with the Holt/Smithson Foundation as part of the Island Project. In company with artists Sky Hopinka, Tacita Dean, Joan Jonas, and Oscar Santillán
• Recipient of Barnard College’s Lida A. Orzeck ’68 Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, 2023
• Essays and fiction published in Transition, Frieze, Texte zur Kunst and Collapse, among other magazines and journals.

Renée Green has a multi-disciplinary practice, and she is internationally regarded as an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work draws on Minimal and Conceptional Art traditions as well as literary, philosophical, and historical sources. Her consideration of site and time is a hallmark of her work as well. Significant one-person exhibitions of her art have been staged in Berlin, Paris, Vienna as well as Boston, New York, San Francisco, and numerous other cities. Green is a professor at the Art. Culture, and Technology program at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.