Cecile B Evans Screening & Potluck

Our Lunar New Year Gathering returns!

Friday, February 20th

5pm: Share your Food & Drinks (you can reheat or cook in our kitchen) 7pm: Cécile B. Evans Screening 7:45pm: Q&A with the artist Cécile B. Evans and Eunice Tsang 8pm - late: DJ music

✨ About the Evening

The Lunar New Year is traditionally a time for reunion and abundance. In that spirit, we're gathering our chosen family for a joyful potluck feast. Please bring your favorite dish or drink to share—it’s the shared food and stories that make the celebration.

🎬 Featured Program About the Artist

We are thrilled to host artist Cécile B. Evans for a special screening and Q&A. The 45' program includes:

Reality or Not (35')

Reality or Not follows a group of high school students from a suburb north of Paris who are invited by an American producer to participate in a reality TV show only to reject their own reality. Their story of radicalization is encouraged by the Producer (Evans) and narrated by their former teacher (Alexandra Stewart) as the students begin a practice of world jumping that moves the film across disparate realities.

Alongside this group of young people, an eclectic array of characters construct interwoven storylines ranging from a former Real Housewives star turned hacker who attempts to take down the International Monetary Fund to a group of failed renders of a virtual influencer that unite to form a workers collective.

The 35-minute film is lodged with penetrating humor to deliver cutting overviews of contemporary culture and seductive images that play a vital foil to the assault of ideas, luring audiences magnetically into the realities unfolding. "No you, no me, no storylines."

RECEPTION! and MEMORY! (4'30")

RECEPTION! and MEMORY! act as proof of concept videos for a forthcoming feature length film. They are character studies of the main character and her double, a memory that has abandoned Reception's body. Both live in a world where an ecological crisis has forced a storage shortage, leading to the loss of much of the population's personal data. Reception is one of the last human translators in this world, working to transcribe recovered memories for an organization created by the corporation that caused the catastrophe. Her own memory, considered an autonomous agent, struggles under the strain of a body entangled in the system that led to the disaster.

The screening will be followed by a live conversation with Eunice, director of Current Plans.

About the Artist

Cécile B. Evans is an American-Belgian artist living and working in La Plaine Saint Denis. Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. They have previously realized new commissions at Centre Pompidou (FR), Museo d’Arte Moderne di Bologna (IT), Tate Liverpool (UK), Lafayette Anticipations (FR), Tramway (UK), Serpentine Galleries (UK), Castello di Rivoli (IT), Museum Abteiberg (DE), and and exhibited work at Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Haus der Kunst (DE), Renaissance Society Chicago (US), Singapore Art Museum, Mito Art Tower (JP) amongst others. Evans’ films have been screened in festivals such as the New York Film Festival and Rotterdam International. Evans’ work is held in public collections such as MoMA NY (US), the Whitney Museum (US), Centre Pompidou (FR), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK), and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (Sk).

Come for the community, stay for the art and conversation. All are welcome.

Please RSVP so we can prepare for everyone!