Decoder
dal 7/2/2008 al 22/3/2008
Segnalato da
Aline Bouvy
John Gillis
Omer Fast
Cao Guimaraes
Saskia Holmkvist
Hassan Khan
Tsui Kuang-Yu
Gabriel Lester
Nashashibi
Skaer
Cedric Noel
Gert Robijns
Supersober
Nav Haq
7/2/2008
Decoder
Contemporary Art Centre - CAC, Vilnius
Selected works from the 3rd Contour Biennial for Video Art. The exhibition presents a number of video and film works in a double-edged line of enquiry. It investigates the perceptual and rhetorical mechanisms that affect and shape how people develop comprehension of the world, and also analyses the reasoning for the tendency itself, for looking at these subjects within lens-based media art practices.
Curated by Nav Haq
Participating artists: Aline Bouvy / John Gillis, Omer Fast, Cao Guimaraes, Saskia
Holmkvist, Hassan Khan, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Gabriel Lester, Nashashibi / Skaer, Cedric
Noel, Gert Robijns, Supersober (Bohdan Stehlik / Una Szeemann).
The exhibition presents a number of video and film works in a double-edged line of
enquiry. It investigates the perceptual and rhetorical mechanisms that affect and
shape how people develop comprehension of the world, and also analyses the reasoning
for the tendency itself, for looking at these subjects within lens-based media art
practices. The exhibition presents works that touch on subjects that are filtered
through these prevailing mechanisms for understanding – in candid, topical,
revelatory, and even antagonistic ways.
Contour 2007 also frames a series of gestures beyond contemporary art's current
internationalism. The exhibition looks at the contemporary conditions and desires
for consuming through the visual, and questions the capacity for effectively
debating socio- and geo-political issues through this consumption. It is not
intended to be a political exhibition, as such. Rather it looks at the apparatus of
consuming political concerns within art, and then interrogates the question of
whether an analysis of this consumption is relevant to contemporary art.
Illustration: Supersober (Bohdan Stehlik / Una Szeemann). Faded Majesty, 2007
Opening: Friday 8 February, 18
Hassan Khan INCIDENCE / A live concert accompanied by video: 19
Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2, LT - 01130, Vilnius