Opening reception: Thursday, June 30 | 6-9pm

Artist talk in conversation with Andrea Bowers | 6:30pm

For her first solo exhibition in the U.S., Dublin-based artist Jesse Jones, whose work focuses on the political and social history of cinema, presents a newly commissioned 16mm film titled The Struggle Against Ourselves. Produced in collaboration with students from CalArts’ Schools of Film/Video and Theater and commissioned by REDCAT, Jones’ latest project uses the pioneering Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold’s studies in biomechanics as a point of departure. Situated at the intersection of constructivist theater and its eventual appropriation by mass culture à la Busby Berkeley, the new project is presented alongside The Spectre and the Sphere (2008)—a film depicting a ghostly performance of “The Internationale” on a theremin by the great niece of its inventor Lydia Kavina. Brought together at REDCAT for the first time, the works reflect Jones’ desire to retrieve the artifacts of cultural history and revolutionary politics through performance, filmic re-enactment and theatrical staging.