Tony Oursler
dal 4/11/2003 al 5/11/2003
Segnalato da
4/11/2003
Tony Oursler
SFAI Lecture Hall, San Francisco
Lecture series. Tony Oursler has broken new ground in the world of video art by freeing the image from the cumbersome boundaries of the video monitor, conventional film screen and picture frame. Instead, he projects images on a variety of surfaces such as smoke, cotton balls, antennae and water.
FALL LECTURE SERIES
November 5, 2003 7:30 pm
Tony Oursler has broken new ground in the world of video art by freeing the image from the cumbersome boundaries of the video monitor, conventional film screen and picture frame. Instead, he projects images on a variety of surfaces such as smoke, cotton balls, antennae and water. Faceless dolls are a reoccurring Oursler motif. Accompanied by a soundtrack of spoken and/or ambient sound, these dolls are transposed with projected video images of human faces. Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, features a solo exhibition of his work on view through December 6.
Oursler's latest works are like strange creatures from a science fiction film or surrealist dream sequence. They elicit both empathy and fascination from viewers with their biomorphic forms aglow with projected images of isolated bulbous blinking rolling eyes and outsized mouths. Oursler is fascinated by how society immerses itself in technologies like movies, television and the Internet. 'It's a way to experience things that we don't want to confront in real life', says Oursler.
Born in New York in 1957, Tony Oursler lives and works in New York. He has exhibited widely throughout the USA, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and in nearly every major art museum in the world. In Europe he has had numerous one-person exhibitions including the Wiener Secession in Vienna, the Centre D'Art Contemporain in Geneva, Musee des Artes Modernes et Contemporains in Strasbourg, Stedeliik Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Milaneses gallery 1000 event, the Kunstverein in Hanover. His work is included in many permanent collections, including the Tate Gallery and the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and many more.
Image: Tony Oursler, We Have No Free Will, 2003
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MEET THE FACULTY | KERRY LAITALA
November 5, 2003
12:00 - 1:00 pm
McMillan Conference Room
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA
Kerry Laitala will screen two films from her corpus of work: "Secure the Shadow...'Ere the Substance Fade"- 1997 and "Hallowed" from 2002. Both films won the Director's Choice Award from the Black Maria Film Festival. She will also discuss her trajectory of ideas, methodology, and the realities of working without financial support.
Laitala has screened in various festival worldwide including: the Rotterdam Film Festival, The European
Media Arts Festival, San Francisco International and New York International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Image Forum in Japan.
"Abandon yourself to a morass of imagery. This retrospective offers a chance to share in the uncanny
visual associations that reside in the recesses of Kerry Laitala's imagination. Film noir, mystical
surrealism, psychoanalysis, fairy tales- a cacophony of symbols and stylistic devises are used in the
creation of these consistently enigmatic and richly crafted little films. Laitala is like an alchemist
deeply absorbed in a process, removed from the constraints of commercialism and transient styles,
working alone in her lab, searching for the unexpected poetry of cinema and the subconscious."
(Louis Benassi)- Curator, Edinburgh International Film Festival.
For more information:
http://www.othercinema.com/klaitala
SFAI Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA
(415)749-3535