Shared Resources by Jordan Lord

Jordan Lord, Shared Resources, 2021. Image courtesy the artist. [alt text: Three white people sit at a table together, each with a set of white papers in front of them. The figure on the far left is a bald man in his 60s, who reads the papers intently. The figure in the center is the artist Jordan Lord, a person in their late 20s, who looks to a woman in her 60s with blonde hair, who holds the papers in her hands and looks back at them. A caption appears over the image that reads: “My mom looks at me, as I speak. My dad looks down at the contract.”]
Jordan Lord, Shared Resources, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
Jordan Lord, Shared Resources, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
Jordan Lord, Shared Resources, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
Jordan Lord, Shared Resources, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.

“Staging an immanent critique of documentary, Lord’s films challenge the presumed neutrality and universality of vision, upending the pet adage ‘Show don’t tell,’ in order to reclaim the subjectivity of description.” —Artforum

After Jordan Lord’s father gets fired from his job as a debt collector, the artist follows their family over the term of a Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Set within domestic scenes in their Mississippi home, Lord’s documentary Shared Resources incorporates open captioning and audio descriptions to portray multiple viewpoints on shared financial and emotional debts and promises, reframing ethical questions about what is owed in consent and contracts. 2021, US, DCP, 98 min. With open captions and visual descriptions.

On Friday, artists Jordan Lord and Emma Hedditch will introduce and discuss the film live. A recorded version of their pre-show remarks will screen with the film on Saturday.

Accessibility is integral to the creation and presentation of this film. The work is intended to be universally designed, so all audiences utilize open captions and audio description.

Tickets to watch this program and stream the conversation online are available here. Contact info@walkerart.org for more information. Additional information on accessibility is below.

Accessibility

This film and artist talk include open captions and visual descriptions. The talk will be ASL interpreted and open-captioned.

Assistive-listening devices are available at the box office.

For more information or to request additional accommodations, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.

For more information about accessibility at the Walker, visit our Access page.

Bios

Jordan Lord (US) is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts, framing and support, access, and documentary. Their films have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA Doc Fortnight, Dokufest Kosovo, Union Docs, and the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. Their film Shared Resources (2021) won the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival and the Critics Jury Prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys and Artists Space. In 2021, they were profiled as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine, and their work has been featured in publications such as Artforum, Screen Slate, Art in America, Millennium Film Journal, and Hyperallergic. They are currently teaching at Vassar College, the New School, and Hunter College.

Emma Hedditch lives in New York. Their work focuses on daily practice, materiality, and distribution of knowledge as political action. They work with a framework for creative activity, which has a profound elasticity, contained by a continued sense of commitment to social relations and unravelling institutional frameworks through self-organization, tasks and projects, rather than a commitment to an institution’s rules or because of the provision of wealth creating activities. Their video work has screened at the Oberhausen Film Festival; Elizabeth Foundation, NY; Goethe Institute, NY; MACBA, Barcelona; Galería Macchina, Santiago; Artists Space, NY; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and LUX, London. Their work has been included in exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Wallach Art Gallery, NY; Outpost Gallery, UK; and Badischer Kunstverein. Hedditch has worked at Cinenova, a feminist film and video distributor, Copenhagen Free University, and Coop Fund.