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9/11/2006

3 exhibition

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

Walid Raad - neuroTransmitter - Robert Campbell and Yuki Nakamura

Organized by Chief Curator Elizabeth Brown and Associate Curator Sara Krajewski

Walid Raad works with video, photography, and literary essays to investigate the contemporary history of war in his native Lebanon. (We Decided To Let Them Say “We Are Convinced" Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way.), a series of 15 large-scale photographs, specifically recalls the Israeli Army’s invasion and siege of Beirut in 1982. That summer Raad, an intrepid 15-year-old with a telephoto lens, took photographs of near and distant military activity in West Beirut from his home in the eastern sector. Recently reprinting the pictures from the original, now degraded negatives, he discovered that the images’ unusual discoloration, creases, and holes offered a disturbing but realistic representation of a broken world rendered flat by the series of catastrophes that had befallen it.

Highly regarded for his project The Atlas Group, Raad grapples with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence.

The collaborative artist group neuroTransmitter works specifically with radio machinations to investigate the history, technology, and uses of the medium. At the Henry, neuroTransmitter presents two multimedia installations exploring pirate radio stations of the past. By reflecting on the means and aims of such rebellious activity, neuroTransmitter raises questions about the corporate and governmental control of radio and how radio might be reclaimed as a tool for protest and social advancement.

Floating Plaster/City Motion is a new multi-media installation by Robert Campbell and Yuki Nakamura, who worked together for the first time in the New Works Laboratory residency program. Nakamura, who earned a BFA in Tokyo and an MFA from the University of Washington, is known primarily for pristine sculptural objects and installations, often made in porcelain. Campbell, who earned a BFA and an MFA from CalArts, teaches video, film, and digital imaging at Cornish College for the Arts. Having fixed on a basic formal approach, they developed a series of elements that were striking on their own but would respond to projected light. The moving sequence, which runs approximately seven minutes, evokes the drama of a city: shifting lights, moving traffic, incidents of weather, and other elements in flux that capture the pulse of a place. Nakamura’s expertise with sculpture freed Campbell to enjoy object-making, while Campbell enabled Nakamura’s first experiences with projected animation. The two artists contributed equally to the refinement and resolution of each part, working together to make a new whole.

New Works Laboratory is a collaborative project between 911 Media Arts Center and the Henry Art Gallery. It is an intensive residency program that pairs visual artists working in traditional media with digital media artists experimenting with new technologies, to co-create and exhibit new and innovative works of art.

Image: Walid Raad. Untitled and/or artillery I. 2005. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

Opening 10, november 2006

Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington 15th Ave - Seattle

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