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Rami George, "Untitled (with my father)" (2020)

Rami George's new video essay "Untitled (with my father)" (2020), extends the artist's inquiry into the Samaritan Foundation, a new age spiritual cult that was active in the 1990s. George’s mother became engrossed in Samaritan Foundation doctrines and in 1993 took her two children from their home in Somerville, Massachusetts to join the group in a commune in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Based on the transcript of a 2013 conversation the artist recorded with their father, Jonathan, as he recollects the arc of these events, the video surveys the artist’s childhood home, family photographs, personal mail, and legal documents around court proceedings with an even-handed attention to each detail. At times, audio and image enter into direct relationship, with paperwork or a child’s saved school assignment seeming to offer evidence of the described events. At other moments, sound and image depart from one another, puncturing the notion of a single, cohesive narrative—a distancing furthered by the voice of a reader speaking the part of the artist’s father, while the artist re-performs the questions they asked him. Delving into the group’s troubled history, George’s work reflects on how the individuals implicated in their community, by choice or by circumstance, were affected by a rippling wake of events that connect to, and exceed the artist’s own memories and experiences. "Untitled (with my father)" is one of two video essays featured in the MIT List Visual Arts Center exhibition List Projects 21: Rami George. List Projects 21: Rami George is organized by Selby Nimrod, Assistant Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center.