Sights and Sounds
dal 27/11/2014 al 24/12/2014
Segnalato da
27/11/2014
Sights and Sounds
The Jewish Museum, New York
Over the course of two years, Sights and Sounds is exploring new works selected by twenty-five curators from different countries, introducing New York audiences to the latest developments in filmmaking within the art context worldwide.
New York, NY – The Jewish Museum’s exhibition series Sights and Sounds:
Global Film and Video continues with a diverse lineup of month-long
presentations featuring recent film and video works from around the world.
Upcoming programs include Australia (December 2014), Turkey (January
2015), Vietnam (February 2015), Mexico (March 2015), and Hungary (April
2015).
Upcoming presentations:
Australia, curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe – November 28 – December 25, 2014
With the advent of digital media, the use of video as primary medium for
Australian artists has increased rapidly. The renewed global interest in
performance art is also reflected in Australian practice. The presentation
includes Daniel Crooks’ glimpse at of the back alleys of Melbourne’s grand
nineteenth-century boulevards, Aboriginal artist Richard Bell’s irreverent
exploration of race and national identity, Angelica Mesiti’s depiction of an
immigrant busker in Paris singing an Arabic version of the iconic song Hotel
California, and Susan Norrie’s visually rich, cinematic investigation of recent
natural disasters and social conflict in Japan.
Turkey, curated by Emre Baykal - December 26, 2014 - January 29, 2015This
selection of works from Turkey exemplifies the way moving images incorporate
other artistic modes, such as performance and photography. In Nevin Aladağ’s
Hochparterre (Mezzanine), the voices of residents in a diverse Berlin
neighborhood provide the soundtrack for a single actor, who lip synchs and
mimes the stories of their lives and discontents. Zeyno Pekünlü’s Man to Man
investigates homosocial behavior in classic Turkish movies by presenting a
montage of excerpted scenes in which men emote and interact in the absenceof women. Aykan Safoğlu’s Off-White Tulips is a tribute to James Baldwin, a gay
African-American writer who lived in Istanbul in the 1960s and 70s, and uses
found materials to explore issues surrounding queer politics, identity, racism,
self-exile, and transnational discourse. Fatma Bucak’s Blessed Are You Who
Come, filmed at an uninhabited site on the Turkish–Armenian border,
documents a woman performing a series of silent rituals, exploring the
relationships among people of different generations, genders, ethnicities, and
religious identities.
Vietnam, curated by Zoe Butt – January 30 - February 26, 2015
Artists face unique challenges in Vietnam, where they are closely monitored
and depictions of history are often heavily edited by the Communist
bureaucracy. Despite these limitations, they incisively confront the experience
of military control, the mythologizing of the past, and the power of broadcast
and print media. Nguyen Trinh Thi’s Landscape Series #1 explores the idea of
landscapes as quiet witnesses to history through photographs of people
outdoors around Vietnam. The Propeller Group’s The Dream documents a
Honda Dream motorcycle, a highly coveted status symbol, as it is gradually
stripped of its parts over the course of a night on the streets of Ho Chi Minh
City. UuDam Tran Nguyen’s Waltz of the Machine Equestrians – The Machine
Equestrians provides a humorous critique of contemporary social values by
depicting a pack of motorcyclists riding through the streets of Ho Chi Minh City
as if part of a military equestrian parade. Pham Ngoc Lân’s The Story of Ones
offers a glimpse into the social ritual of Hanoi residents as they listen to the
national radio on the streets in the early morning.
Mexico, curated by María Inés Rodríguez – February 27 - March 26, 2015
Over the past few decades, shifts in the political, social, economic, and cultural
landscape have impacted Mexico and thrown communities into flux. These
changes – and their impact in the public sphere – are reflected in the work of
Mexican artists. The selection includes: Tania Candiani’s ode to Werner
Herzog’s 1982 movie Fitzcarraldo, reflecting the recent demise of the
Colombian port of Honda; Jorge Scobell’s dystopian exploration of factory
work across Mexico; Edgardo Aragón’s poetic recreation of 1970s military
“death flights,” in which traditional drinking gourds are used as stand-ins for
murdered rebels and political opponents; and Jorge de la Garza’s meditation
on humanity’s historic tendency toward political self-destruction through
fragments of films from the 1940s and 1950s.
Hungary, Curated by Tijana Stepanović – March 27 - April 30, 2015
After the end of the Soviet Union, video art became an effective, relatively
cheap tool for documentation, analysis, and critique in Hungary. This selection
shows the diversity of expression in the medium through works that deal with
personal doubts and social conflicts related to national identity, exile, family,
and history. The presentation includes: a performance staged in Budapest’s
now-defunct gasworks by the artist collective Tehnica Schweiz; László Csáki’s
chalk-drawn animation of a darkly humorous thriller by Ambrose Pierce; Anja
Medved’s documentary interviews with people who lived on a former border
crossing between Italy and Slovenia during the Soviet era; and Csaba Nemes’
puppet tale of a conflict between a white woodsman and a young Roma man
who meet in the forest.
Image: Angelica Mesiti, Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget, 2012, digital video, sound, 6 min., 4 sec. .
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Opening: Friday 28 November 2014.
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