BIOGRAPHY
Clarissa Tossin works with moving-image, sculpture and installation to propose alternative narratives for places defined by histories of colonization. Through a mix of research, storytelling, and gestures of mapping and layering, Tossin places seemingly disparate elements into conversation, generating unexpected moments of interconnectedness across time and space. Tossin’s childhood in Brasília heavily influenced early films and installations deconstructing Brazil’s modernist history, which over the years have expanded to encompass geographies ranging from her adopted home of Los Angeles to the vast realms of outer space.
Tossin received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo. Her work was recently featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing.
COURSES TAUGHT
During fall quarter 2024, Tossin will teach the undergraduate course, ART190, and the graduate seminar, ART 290D. ART 190 meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1-4 p.m.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Tossin will give a public lecture on Thursday, October 10 from 4:30 - 6 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum. The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 4 p.m.
PHOTOS
Photographs will be available at the conclusion of the residency.
Banner photo: Still from Clarissa Tossin, Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los Volcanes Canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing, 2022, color digital video, sound. Image courtesy of the artist and EMPAC / Rensselaer.