Incommunicado
dal 29/9/2003 al 14/12/2003
Segnalato da
Pavel Buchler
Phil Coy
Chen Zhen
Omer Fast
Mona Hatoum
Jiri Kolar
Christian Marclay
Bruce Nauman
Hirsch Perlman
Smith/Stewart
Erika Tan
Lawrence Weiner
Francesca Woodman
29/9/2003
Incommunicado
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
The exhibition brings together film, video, installation, sculpture, text-based work and photography to explore the subject of communication breakdown. You will see images of carrier pigeons creating a play on the expression 'Pidgin English'; a practical joke which turns violent; famous telephone calls from Hollywood movies spliced together to produce a new conversation; but above all, the sometimes hilarious, sometimes sobering results when our desire to share information goes wrong.
There is a basic human need to communicate, to understand and to be understood. But what happens when things go wrong? How reliable are our methods of communicating? Does new technology help or confuse? These are some of the many questions raised by Incommunicado, a new National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery. Featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary art, it opens its tour here at the Sainsbury Centre.
Incommunicado brings together film, video, installation, sculpture, text-based work and photography to explore the subject of communication breakdown. You will see images of carrier pigeons creating a play on the expression 'Pidgin English'; a practical joke which turns violent; famous telephone calls from Hollywood movies spliced together to produce a new conversation; but above all, the sometimes hilarious, sometimes sobering results when our desire to share information goes wrong.
Central to the exhibition is Comédie, a recently re-discovered film by Samuel Beckett and French filmmaker Marin Karmitz (producer of Krzysztof Kieslowski's famous Three Colours film trilogy) made in 1966, in which Karmitz speeds up Beckett's play to the point of near incomprehensibility.
In addition to the Beckett/Karmitz film, the show includes work by Pavel Büchler (UK), Phil Coy (UK), Chen Zhen (China), Omer Fast (Germany), Mona Hatoum (UK/Lebanon), Jiri Kolar (Czech), Christian Marclay (USA), Bruce Nauman (USA), Hirsch Perlman (USA), Smith/Stewart (UK), Erika Tan (UK/Singapore) and Lawrence Weiner (USA), Francesca Woodman (USA)
Image: Francesca Woodman Self-portrait talking to Vince, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-78 gelatin silver print 20.3 x 25.5 cm
Open to the public Tuesday to Sunday 11.00am til 5.00pm
Open to 8.00pm every Wednesday evening
29 January to 30 April 2003 inclusive
(Closed Mondays)
Admission £2
Concessions £1
Pre-Booked schools £1
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