Performing for the Camera

The ASU Art Museum, Tempe

The group show features 50 photographs by artists who use performance as a central part of their process. With elaborate costumes and masquerades, large groups of people, theatrical settings, serial images and cinematic framing, the artists create photographs that are often ambiguous, dreamlike, uncanny or campy.

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Curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry

Performing for the Camera presents 50 photographs by artists who use performance as a central part of their process. With elaborate costumes and masquerades, large groups of people, theatrical settings, serial images and cinematic framing, the artists create photographs that are often ambiguous, dreamlike, uncanny or campy. These works blur fact and fiction by staging images for a medium associated with truth -- teasing and inspiring us to complete the story for ourselves.

Supported by the Advisory Board of the ASU Art Museum and Friends of the ASU Art Museum.

Special thanks to Stéphane Janssen for lending most of the works in the exhibition from his deep and significant collection.

The exhibition was curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry, senior curator and associate director of the ASU Art Museum, with ASU School of Art faculty members and photographers Julie Anand and Elizabeth Schneider; Ann Sanchez, curator of the Stéphane Janssen collection; Nicole Herden, curatorial assistant and curatorial intern Meredith Bonnett.

Artists included in the exhibition: AES+F, Dieter Appelt, Liu Bolin, Gao Brothers, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Aimeé García Marrero, Anthony Goicolea, Zhang Huan, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Ellen Kooi, Oleg Kulik, Duane Michals, Arno Minkkinen, Tracey Moffatt, Yasumasa Morimura, Shirin Neshat, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Pierre + Gilles, Cindy Sherman, Sandy Skoglund, Pepe Smit, Kwong Chi Tseng, Spencer Tunick, Carrie Mae Weems, Charlie White and Kimiko Yoshida.

Image: Liu Bolin, "Hiding in the City No. 51 - Road Block," 2007 photograph. Photo courtesy of Eli Klein Fine Art.

Media Contact:
Deborah Sussman Susser, 480.965.0014, deborah.susser@asu.edu

Opening reception: Tuesday, Feb. 7 from 7 - 9 p.m., with a talk by artist Spencer Tunick at 6 p.m.

The ASU Art Museum
10th Street and Mill Avenue - Tempe
Hours:
Tuesday: During academic semesters 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Summer hours: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesday–Saturday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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