12/12/2002
Renee Green
Portikus, Frankfurt
The title "Phases + Versions," accentuates the temporal and changing aspects of these works. Green continues to be involved in testing ways in which to transfer, translate and probe the perceptual shifts which can occur in encountering works depending on when, where and how they are presented.
PHASES + VERSIONS
Exhibition opening on Friday, December 13, 2002, at 8 p.m.
Invitation to a conversation with the press on Friday, December 13, 2002, at 11
a.m.
The artist will be present.
Renée Green will present a new installation ("Imaginary Places: Variation 1"
with "Coordinates"), shown for the first time at the Portikus. Elements of the
exhibition, "Phases + Versions," are variations and continuations of two already
existing productions: "Elsewhere?"/Standardized Octagonal Units for Imagined and
Existing Systems (S.O.U.s) and "Wavelinks". From these works Green will present
two videos, "Elsewhere?"(2002) and "Wavelinks: A Different Reality" (2002).
The title "Phases + Versions," accentuates the temporal and changing aspects of
these works. Green continues to be involved in testing ways in which to
transfer, translate and probe the perceptual shifts which can occur in
encountering works depending on when, where and how they are presented.
"Standardized Octagonal Units for Imagined and Existing Systems (S.O.U.s)" was
the title of Renée Green's installation in the Auepark for this year's Documenta
11. It consisted of a total of seven octagonal audio units and a video unit
distributed across the park in Kassel. While the film presented an index of the
project in its entirety, the visitors of the audio stations heard the recitation
of a seemingly endless list of fictitious places. A site to relax and find peace
of mind, but historically also a protected space for fantasies, the park was the
ideal point of departure for this imaginary journey.
The "Coordinates" series, or "listening benches," on which the whispered list of
imaginary place names is heard, allow for a contemplative moment on a portable
unit, which at this time is in a gallery space. By establishing this
correspondence between the color-coded names on the wall, the seats in the room
and the sequences in the video "Elsewhere?", Renée Green develops within the
exhibition a system of coordinates. Repetition is utilized as a stylistic device
and makes reference to the title of the exhibition, "Phases + Versions." The
term "phasing" stems from a method used in the composition of contemporary
music, designating the phase-shifted combination of several identical audio
tracks in a repetitive sequence which slip gradually and then increasingly out
of synch with each other, creating a gap between the loops which can be
surprisingly resonant.
"Wavelinks,"a project about people's perceptions of sound which the artist has
been pursuing since 1999, is the title of the second work Renée Green introduces
in her installation at Portikus. In her exhibition in Frankfurt she will show "A
Different Reality," from the "Wavelinks" video series, which probes the notion
of unprecedented pleasure and crosses these ideas with those of imaginary places
that people can be transported to via sound.
Renée Green (born 1959) has lived and worked in New York and Vienna and hopes to
continue in Santa Barbara and Barcelona.
Image: Renée Green
Import/Export Funk Office
1992-1993
Installation with audio, video, and
reading materials
Dimensions variable
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles
Gift of Gabi and Wilhelm Schürmann
Photo: Paula Goldman
The exhibition is supported by
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Portikus
Schoene Aussicht 2 D-60311 Frankfurt
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