{"id":1464,"date":"2016-07-06T14:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/?page_id=1464"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:32:18","slug":"ordinal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/ordinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sun: Rini Yun Keagy with Miljohn Ruperto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><strong>February 17 \u2013 April 16, 2017<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"soliloquy-outer-container\" data-soliloquy-loaded=\"0\"><div aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"soliloquy-container-7531_1\" class=\"soliloquy-container soliloquy-transition-fade soliloquy-fade soliloquy-controls-active soliloquy-arrows-active  soliloquy-theme-base no-js\" style=\"max-width:600px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"><ul id=\"soliloquy-7531_1\" class=\"soliloquy-slider soliloquy-slides soliloquy-wrap soliloquy-clear\"><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-1 soliloquy-id-1773 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-1773\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2017\/01\/FrankAbdel_field-1024x556-1-600x400_c.jpg\" alt=\"FrankAbdel_field-1024&#215;556-1\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-2 soliloquy-id-1775 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-1775\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-2 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2017\/01\/Curtain-1024x768-1-600x400_c.jpg\" alt=\"Curtain-1024&#215;768-1\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-3 soliloquy-id-1777 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-1777\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-3 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2017\/01\/DerrickField-600x400_c.jpg\" alt=\"DerrickField\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-4 soliloquy-id-1779 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-1779\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-4 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2017\/01\/AgSprinkler-600x400_c.jpg\" alt=\"AgSprinkler\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/div><noscript><div class=\"soliloquy-no-js\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;height:0;line-height:0;opacity:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2017\/01\/FrankAbdel_field-1024x556-1.jpg\" alt=\"FrankAbdel_field-1024&#215;556-1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2017\/01\/Curtain-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"Curtain-1024&#215;768-1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2017\/01\/DerrickField.jpg\" alt=\"DerrickField\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2017\/01\/AgSprinkler.jpg\" alt=\"AgSprinkler\" \/><\/div><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><br \/>\nBlack Sun: Rini Yun Keagy with Miljohn Ruperto<\/em> considers human life, the earth, and its objects through an investigation of a soil-dwelling pathogenic fungus, <em>Coccidioides immitis<\/em>, and its associated disease, valley fever, in California\u2019s Central Valley. The exhibition\u2019s focus is <em>Ordinal (SW\/NE)<\/em>, the 2017 experimental documentary film directed and produced by filmmaker Rini Yun Keagy in collaboration with visual artist Miljohn Ruperto. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Black Sun: Rini Yun Keagy with Miljohn Ruperto <\/em>transforms elements of the film <em>Ordinal (SW\/NE)<\/em> into a rich sensory environment. The gallery is occupied by film stills, live-action video, animated sequences, soundscapes, and physical objects used in the film\u2019s creation. The collaborators\u2019 wide-ranging influences span diverse eras, cultures, and ways of ordering the world. Forging links among ancient Assyrian cosmology and mythology, contemporary research into the spread of valley fever, the novel and film <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> and the Depression-era dust bowl, and the films<em> The Exorcist I<\/em> and <em>II<\/em>, the exhibition and film explore relationships among land use, global climate change, human health, and non-human entities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>EVENTS AND PROGRAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/opening-ordinal\/\">Opening Reception<\/a>: Friday, February 17, 7\u20139 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/film-screening\/\"><i>Ordinal (SW\/NE)<\/i> Film Screening\u00a0and Conversation<\/a>:\u00a0Thursday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED PROGRAMING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/bentson-panel\/\">Bentson Critical Group Panel, Walker Art Center<\/a>:\u00a0Saturday, February 25, 7\u00a0p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note: Flaten Art Museum will be closed for Spring Break March 18\u201326;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>open over Easter April 14\u201317.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400:;\"><strong><br \/>\nABOUT THE ARTISTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400:;\"><strong>Rini Yun Keagy<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400:;\"> Rini Yun Keagy received her M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and her B.A. in Geography from University of California, Berkeley. Keagy&#8217;s moving image practice in video and 16mm film is multimodal and research-based, and investigates race and labor, disease, and sites of historical and psychological trauma. Screenings and exhibitions of her work include: Souvenirs from Earth International TV Project, Cologne; Light Industry, Brooklyn; Raum f\u00fcr Projektion, Kaiserslautern, Bergen, Olso, Buenos Aires; Mind TV\/Media Independence, Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis; Wits School of the Arts, Johannesburg; Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseilles; Berlinale Talent Campus Editing Studio, Berlin. Keagy is based in Minneapolis, MN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400:;\"><strong> Miljohn Ruperto<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400:;\"> Miljohn Ruperto received his M.F.A. from Yale University in 2002 and his B.A., Studio Art from University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Recent exhibitions featuring his work include: Nervous Systems, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Afterwork, Para-Site, Hong Kong; The As-if Principle., Magazin4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria; 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Janus, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, Saskatchewan, Canada; Ulrik Heltoft and Miljohn Ruperto, Voynich Botanical Studies, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Made in L.A., The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), organized by Walead Beshty, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Ruperto lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stills from the film <em>Ordinal (SW\/NE)<\/em>, 2017, courtesy Rini Yun Keagy and Miljohn Ruperto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIAL THANKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is generously supported by the Glen H. and Shirley Beito Gronlund Annual Exhibition Series Fund. Special thanks to the Museum of Antiquities, University of Saskatchewan. The film is produced in part with support from Jerome Foundation Film, Video and Digital Production grant 2016, Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant 2016\u201317, Carleton College Arts and Technology curricular initiative grant 2015, REDCAT, and Todd Madigan Gallery at California State University Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Rini Yun Keagy is a fiscal year 2016 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1795\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/ordinal\/msab_logo_bw-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/07\/msab_logo_bw-e1501877024158.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"93,150\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"msab_logo_bw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/07\/msab_logo_bw-e1501877024158.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1795\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/07\/msab_logo_bw-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota State Arts Board\" width=\"118\" height=\"191\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1788\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/ordinal\/legacy_logo_bw_reverse\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/07\/legacy_logo_bw_reverse-e1501877063546.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"79,150\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"legacy_logo_bw_reverse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/07\/legacy_logo_bw_reverse-536x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1788\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/07\/legacy_logo_bw_reverse-157x300.jpg\" alt=\"Clean Water Land &amp; Legacy Amendment\" width=\"100\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 17 \u2013 April 16, 2017 Black Sun: Rini Yun Keagy with Miljohn Ruperto considers human life, the earth, and its objects through an investigation of a soil-dwelling pathogenic fungus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1967,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1464","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7532,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1464\/revisions\/7532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}