Kerry Tribe
dal 12/5/2013 al 12/5/2013
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12/5/2013
Kerry Tribe
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
The artist discusses her work and introduces a live performance of her Critical Mass
MoMA's ongoing showcase for innovation on screen, Modern Mondays allows contemporary filmmakers and moving image artists to present their work directly to audiences. Today artist Kerry Tribe discusses her work and introduces a live performance of her Critical Mass. Kerry Tribe (American, b. 1973) uses the formal mechanics of the moving image to explore the instability of recall and the subjective nature of perception. This evening culminates in a live performance of Tribe's Critical Mass, based on the 1971 Hollis Frampton film of the same name. In Frampton's film, an improvised argument between a young man and woman is captured, copied, cut up, and reassembled to produce a frenetically edited, highly structural, distanced yet evocative work. Tribe's piece reenacts Frampton's film cut-by-cut with two live actors, inverting the role of film as performance document while exploring the historical specificity of language and gender. The performance has undergone a series of evolutions since it was first staged at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2010; this will be the New York premiere of the new iteration, with actors Emelie O'Hara and Nick Huff. (Image: performance view, Tate Modern, 2012)