Speed of Vision
dal 17/6/2000 al 6/9/2000
Segnalato da
Doug Aitken
Jonas Ã…kerlund
Charles Atlas
Jessica Bronson
Eiko & Koma
Annika Eriksson
Tom Kalin
Matthew McCaslin
Raphael Montañez Ortiz
Nam June Paik
Kathy Rose
Matthew Yokobosky
17/6/2000
Speed of Vision
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
On the construction and perception of time in video art. This exhibition explores how the video medium can manipulate and influence the viewers' sense of time, inviting visitors to assume the role of sci-fi time travelers and encouraging them to forge individual paths through the various installations. The galleries are divided into three distinct time zones of slow motion, real time, and hyper-speed.
On the construction and perception of time in video art.
The Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary
Art is pleased
to present
SPEED OF
VISION, a
highly
innovative
exhibition
composed of single-channel videotapes
and mixed-media installations. This
exhibition explores how the video
medium can manipulate and influence
the viewers' sense of time, inviting
visitors to assume the role of sci-fi time
travelers and encouraging them to forge
individual paths through the various
installations. The galleries are divided
into three distinct time zones of slow
motion, real time, and hyper-speed.
Like other art forms that rely on time as
a main medium - theater, dance,
performance - these video works
simulate real-life experiences. As a
result, the exhibition fosters emotional
and psychological responses that
compel visitors to question their
bearings and reexamine their
understanding of reality.
Curated by Matthew Yokobosky,
exhibition designer at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art and independent curator,
this exhibition provides a complex
environment of overlapping sounds and
juxtaposed images. Included in the
exhibition design is a video compilation
which explores the relationship between
man's ambition to travel fast and his
simultaneous desire to record that
accomplishment. The compilation
highlights documentary scenes of space
travel in contrast to Hollywood film
excerpts.
Eleven ambitious and sophisticated
works are featured in SPEED OF VISION,
each requiring the viewer to reexamine
the paradoxical conception of time as
both a real and artificial construction.
The following artists are represented,
all of whom challenge the way the
passage of time is perceived by
exploiting editing and filming
techniques to their fullest: Doug Aitken,
Jonas Ã…kerlund, Charles Atlas, Jessica
Bronson, Eiko & Koma, Annika Eriksson,
Tom Kalin, Matthew McCaslin, Raphael
Montañez Ortiz, Nam June Paik, and
Kathy Rose. The catalogue
accompanying the exhibition will feature
a specially commissioned project by
photographer Judy Linn.
IMAGE
Kathy Rose
Performance View
Photo: Miguel Villalobos
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