Degrees of Remove: FiIm Series, Landscape and Narrative


This screening series was developed in the context of the exhibition Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect at SculptureCenter, on view through November 30. Degrees of Remove suggests the contemporary experience of landscape as increasingly mediated through documentation in urban societies. The works on view explore the representation of spatial constructs through fiction and affect, revealing how artists transpose spaces onto surfaces through various degrees of allegorical remove. Curated by Sarina Basta, Fionn Meade, and Anthology Film Archives.

PROGRAM 2: Landscape and Narrative – Monday, November 17 at 7:30pm

Focused on varying degrees of narrative’s tenuous relationship with landscape – from a totally constructed fiction to a non-linguistic approach – this selection explores the underlying ways we perceive and articulate the representation of space.

Walter De Maria: Hardcore (1969, 28 minutes, 16mm). Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Gift of Virginia Dwan.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Atomic Park (2004, 9 minutes, DVD)
Amy Granat Ann Craven: Moon Shadow, Part 1 (2008, 9 minutes, 16mm)
Gianni Motti: The Messenger (2003, 3 minutes, DVD)
Rosa Barba: They Shine (2007, 5 minutes, 35mm. Voice: Matt Didemus.)
Luis Buñuel: Land Without Bread / Las Hurdes (1932, 28 minutes, 35mm)

Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.

PROGRAM 3: Special Focus on the Work of Michael Snow – Sunday, November 23 at 8:30pm

Reverberlin (2006, 55 minutes, video)
Featuring Paul Dutton, John Oswald and Michael Snow.

Using concert footage of CCMC, the free improvisational ensemble Snow co-founded in 1974, the filmmaker/musician digitally weaves together images and sounds from performances that have taken place across the globe. “I desired an equivalence of seeing and hearing so that one could actually listen, pay attention to the music, as well as follow the picture development,” Snow writes.

PROGRAM 4: Special Focus on the Work of Michael Snow – Monday and Tuesday, November 24 25 at 7:30pm

La Région Centrale (1971, 180 minutes, 16mm)

Made over the course of five days on a deserted mountaintop in North Quebec, the vertical and horizontal alignment as well as the tracking speed of Snow’s equipment was all determined by the camera’s settings. Anchored to a tripod, the camera turned a complete 360 degrees, craned itself skyward, and circled in all directions. Because of the unconventional camera movement, the result was more than merely a document of the film location’s landscape, as its themes became the cosmic relationships of space and time.

Sculpture Center

NAM JUNE PAIK


NAM JUNE PAIK

Driving Media
The exhibition, curated by Paik’s student and long time assistant Jochen Saueracker, is the Poland’s first thorough presentation of the artist, including his installations, video works, graphics and drawings. The Paik’s retrospective is the summit of the first year of activity of WRO Art Center, a space for the presentation of contemporary new media art and the reflection on its historical context.
The exhibition’s concept is based on the conviction of the exceptionality of Paik’s art and attitude, and the prophetic accuracy of his views on culture and society. Even today, after the artist’s death, his grand work is a constant reference point and a source of inspiration for artists of all generations, and his notion of Electronic Superhighway, introduced in 1974, has played a major part in the realization of the needs of the coming age.
The works gathered in the exhibition originate from various collections and represent all the periods of Paik’s intensive artistic activity. The lesser known graphics, drawings and sketches on paper, juxtaposed with media works: installations and tapes, make it possible to present a genuinely intermedial artistic way of the ‘Pope of video art’. The exhibition is supplemented by unique recordings of Paik’s actions, including those made by the German broadcaster WDR which took part in the artist’s activities since the 1970s, and biographical documents from the Electronic Art Intermix collection, New York.
The first part of the exhibition, devoted to the 1960s, focuses on the performance art. It includes such exhibits as performance recordings, photo documentation, original writings and music notations, as well as biographical documents. The 1970s are represented by an installation from the renowned TV Buddha series, Small Buddha with Candle TV, and the early experimental video works from the Electronic Arts Intermix collection. The latter works from 1990s include attractive video sculptures Route 66 and Mercury, a sculpture Dharma Wheel Turns, and prints from the Evolution, Revolution, Resolution cycle.

Wro Art Center

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen


HENRIK PLENGE JAKOBSEN

„NEBELKAMMER’ (CLOUD CHAMBER) 2008

13. November, 19-21Uhr until 13. December 2008

Koer

Invitation, art auction!


Please take a look at the attached invitation to an art auction to be held on November 22 at the art museum ARoS in Aarhus, Denmark, to the benefit of charity work in Ethiopia. 71 internationally recognized artists have donated 80 magnificent pieces of art, which we are sure some of your customers will be interested in. You can download the catalogue from our homepage.
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