2017 Festival | Just the Facts

In 2017, LightField grew, brought one and a half times the foot traffic to Hudson Hall that the venue had experienced in the same span of weeks previously. Running August 12-September 30, much of the work in Just the Facts had not been seen in the U.S. in its current form, and included a site-specific installation by Zoe Strauss & Stacy Kranitz, and multimedia work by Brenda Kenneally, Masterji, Phyllis Dooney, and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew. We expanded our Young Photographers Workshop to 3 days, and as in 2016, included and celebrated the images that girls made in our main exhibit.

Titled “Just the Facts,” the art, talks, and screenings touched on themes of desire, belonging, home, history, and individual agency.

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Late 1950s. Home visit Wolverhampton. Family name: Khan, bus conductor. They had one daughter. Later they divorced and he moved to Canada, and left the house to his daughter.

Upstate Girls

Marietta, Ohio, 2010

Taj Mahal, 2017

An Indian from India

Man, West Virginia, 2016

Striking young women in the 1970s, defiant, bold and a lot of attitude.

Journey Through Time, Damian. From Gravity Is Stronger Here.

To Majority Minority

Upstate Girls

Halea and Destiny. From Gravity Is Stronger Here.

Programming + Events

To add context and connect with our community, LightField stages talks and screenings throughout the festival.

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August 12, 2017

Opening night party and talk: We honored the young women from Perfect Ten who participated in our Young Photographers Workshop. Collaborators Stacy Kranitz and Zoe Strauss lead a discussion about their LightField installation, “The Great Divide.”

August 26, 2017

Artist talk: Brenda Kenneally, LightField artist and author of Upstate Girls, in conversation with Linda Tirado, author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America.

September 2, 2017

Film screening & talk: Canners is a deeply humane ode to the men and women who earn their daily bread collecting New York City’s bottles and cans. Director Manny Kirchheimer talked with film critic Eric Hynes.

September 9, 2017

Curators talk: Women Picturing Revolution in conversation with Catherine Morris, co-organizer of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Brooklyn Museum.