Minus
dal 25/4/2007 al 2/5/2007
Segnalato da
25/4/2007
Minus
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Four Thursday Nights. An annual video and film series offering a thematic selection of contemporary works. This edition examines reductive or minimizing gestures that are used to direct and focus the attention of the viewer.
Four Thursday Nights
During the months of April and May, the Aspen Art Museum will present its annual video and film series entitled Four Thursday Nights. Offering a thematic selection of exciting contemporary video and film from around the globe, a new work will premier each Thursday night and run for one week in the museum’s Lower Gallery.
Four Thursday Nights: Minus examines reductive or minimizing gestures that are used to direct and focus the attention of the viewer. In Kota Ezawa’s The Simpson Verdict (2002), the artist creates a flattened animation from original courtroom footage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, calling into question our relationship to reality in the age of the spectacularized media events. Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevicius re-edits and reverses footage in Once in the XX Century (2004) to create a bizarre pseudo-documentary of the erecting of a statue of Lenin before a cheering crowd in a public square in Vilnius. Pawel Wojtasik’s Firehole (2006) combines shots of cars getting compacted with footage from a car race in a beautifully meditative exploration of the life-cycle of machinery. In David Hammons’s Phat Free (1995/1999), a rhythmic, dissonant soundtrack is slowly revealed as documentation of a performance—rife with reference to activity and death—of the artist kicking a metal bucket down an urban street at night.
Programme:
April 26, 2007 at 6 p.m.
The Simpson Verdict, 2002 by Kota Ezawa
Film introduction by artist Kota Ezawa and AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
May 3, 2007 at 6 p.m.
Once in the XX Century, 2004 by Deimantas Narkevicius
Film introduction by AAM Assistant Curator Matthew Thompson
May 10, 2007 at 6 p.m.
Firehole, 2006 by Pawel Wojtasik
Film introduction by AAM Assistant Curator Matthew Thompson
May 17, 2007 at 6 p.m.
Phat Free, 1995/1999 by David Hammons
Film introduction by AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
Image: Kota Ezawa, The Simpson Verdict, 2002. Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco.
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