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13/4/2007

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Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA, Glasgow

Nan Hoover and Nina Konnemann

CCA presents an exhibition showcasing the work of video artists over the last 40 years. A media lounge will host the work from 40yearsvideoart.de. A project initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and realised by ZKM Karlsruhe and K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen Düsseldorf. The exhibition will focus on two prominent female artists, Nan Hoover and Nina Könnemann, who's work spans this era.

Nan Hoover was born in New York, USA, in 1931 and is currently working and living in Berlin, Germany. It 1973 Hoover started experimenting with video, both functioning as an extension of her painting practice and as a documentary medium. The work remains centred around linear, real-time scenes that are left relatively unedited. By using her own body as the primary artistic device in the works she is authoring, Hoover challenges dominant Western codes of representation, in which women are always the object and never the subject of the gaze. The videos often explore a visual ambiguity between body and landscape or abstract and 'natural' forms, being pervaded by an internal rhythm or pulse created by subtle, ongoing movements of light and form. Through these techniques Hoover presses viewers to consider the physical and psychoanalytic conditions of visibility and to evaluate the question of how they are linked to the formation of the subject.

Nina Könnemann devotes herself to public spaces, non places and to undramatic events as in Unrise and M.U.D. where one observes the early morning scenery on the day after an open-air concert, or in Castles made of Sand, which atmospherically captures places lodged underground.

"The people in Könnemann's videos always look like they're on the run. They dash about for no apparent reason, constantly in motion, coolly followed by the camera; they never rest, never stand still. These are lost figures in a nonplace at an indeterminate time of day, torn free of all social relations, isolated, lonely and yet a part of the all-encompassing mass, able to be formed and yet individualist; they are the agonists of our leisure time, a society of pleasure seekers attempting to escape the dreary everyday." (Artforum International Magazine, 2003, Translated from German by Sara Ogger)

40yearsvideoart.de - Digital Heritage is a ground-breaking project which focuses on saving, maintaining, and mediating the cultural heritage of video art, one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century.

This exhibition is part of Timeloop. The season presents new installations, rediscovers key works in the cultural heritage of video art, and involves talks within a German context of media art production. The programme has been built around 40 Years of Video Art (see http://www.40jahrevideokunst.de), an initiative focusing on the preservation and dissemination of the cultural heritage of Video Art. Timeloop is presented in association with the Goethe-Institut, Glasgow.

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