The Century of the Self, Copyright BBC Four, 2002
Wednesday, June 24, 7 p.m.
The Century of the Self (episodes 1 & 3)
(Adam Curtis, 2002)
EFA Project Space presents Chaperone, a weekly screening series consisting of films handpicked by a group of artists, all whose work provocatively explores disparate aspects of our culture’s love affair with mediated reality.
EFA Project Space welcomes the artist Anna Craycroft, as she chaperones the documentary, The Century of the Self (2002), Adam Curtis’ examinaton of the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. Anna will be sharing episodes 1 and 3 of this acclaimed 5 part series:
“For me, making art is an opportunity to continue to indulge my ruminations (ongoing from childhood, and sometimes still embedded there) on the distinction between self and others, and to consider how the great contemporary narratives by which we recognize the construction of individuality are often as much a hoax as they are true. It is encouraging to watch director Adam Curtis present these broad questions as tenets of American history. The Century of the Self is as persuasive and as entertaining as the theories it unravels.”
Image courtesy the artist, Anna Craycroft,
and Tracy Williams Ltd., New York
Anna Craycroft works in a wide range of media on research-based projects that explore how specific cultural constructs shape our social selves. Craycroft’s ongoing project Agency of the Orphan, an in-depth investigation of this culturally invented and psychologically manipulated archetype, yielded an expansive solo exhibition at Tracy Williams, LTD, with an accompanying publication in the spring of 2008. She has shown her work in public art projects, and solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, including such locations, institutions, and galleries as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Art in General, New York; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles; Le Case d’Arte, Milan; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; and a public installation in The Hague. Craycroft is represented by Tracy Williams Ltd. in New York City, where she lives and works.
EFA Project Space is located at 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor.
The Chaperone program has been organized by Ian Cooper, artist, and Michelle Levy, Program Director, EFA Project Space.
Sponsorship provided by 
For more information on the event, contact projectspace@efanyc.org, or 212-563-5855 x 151