Nonstop presents, Thursday

Between the Bottomlands & the World (2011)
Video screening & discussion with Ryan Griffis & Sarah Ross
Thursday, November 17
7:00 PM
Nonstop Institute
305 N. Walnut St., Yellow Springs
donation


This new video project by mediamakers Ryan Griffis & Sarah Ross explores Beardstown, Illinois, a rural town of 6000 people, as a place of global exchange and international mobility, informed by post-NAFTA realities. The story of Beardstown is told through 3 lenses: a portrait of a landscape massively engineered to redirect water for the production of commodity crops; a meditation on international grain trade—from seed to silo to ocean transport; and a chronicle of why so many people from around the world have come to live in this formerly all-white, sundown Illinois town. Griffis and Ross will do a Q & A with the audience following the screening via skype. Griffis and Ross, members of the Compass Group together with other artists from Chicago and Champaign-Urbana, visited Yellow Springs last spring as members of the Midwest Radical Cultural Corridor project.

Ryan Griffis teaches new media at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and his work examines issues that intersect around migration, agriculture, mobility, and travel. More information about his projects can be found at: temporarytraveloffice.net. Sarah Ross teaches media and sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at an Illinois prison. Her work uses narrative and the body to address spatial concerns in connection with class, access, and activism. See more about her work at: insecurespaces.net.

This screening and discussion with Griffis and Ross will be the last public event that Nonstop will host at our Millworks space. Nonstop will continue to do cultural and educational programming at other venues in Yellow Springs and notices of future events will appear in the Yellow Springs News and on posters around town. Please contact inquiries@nonstopinstitute.org to be placed on our mailing list.