Join us for a screening of artist Dario Robleto’s film The Aorta of an Archivist, followed by a conversation between Robleto and art historian Jennifer Roberts, in conjunction with the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine, on view from September 2 to December 30, 2023.

About the film:
The Aorta of an Archivist, 2021 (English; 53 min.)

Written, researched, and directed by Dario Robleto and commissioned by the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, The Aorta of an Archivist is an immersive sound and video installation that connects the artist’s deep and longstanding research on the cosmos, the human heart, and the history and philosophical implications of sound recording. The work is framed by the concept of the “unobservable universe,” an astronomical phenomenon with profound consequences: because the universe is expanding so quickly, light from the stars rapidly moving away from Earth will no longer be captured by even our strongest telescopes. The cosmos has presented us with an observational threshold that seems impermeable.

The film draws from Robleto’s print series The First Time, The Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854–1913), selections from which are on view in Seeing in Art and Medicine.

Speakers:
Dario Robleto, Artist
Jennifer Roberts, Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities, American and Contemporary Art, and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Before the screening, guests are invited to visit the exhibition on Level 3.

Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The screening and conversation will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Doors will open at 5:30pm, at the Broadway entrance.

Limited complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.