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18/1/2002

Outer and Inner Space

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

A Video Exhibition in Three Parts

Pipilotti Rist, Sip My Ocean, January 19 - March 17, 2002
Shirin Neshat, Rapture, April 6 - June 2, 2002
Jane and Louise Wilson, Stasi City, June 22 - August 18, 2002

Outer and Inner Space brings exemplary international video art to Virginia. It presents recent major works by Pipilotti Rist (born in Switzerland in 1967), Shirin Neshat (born in Iran in 1957)), and Jane and Louise Wilson (born in England in 1967), three of the most significant artists to emerge in the past decade. They make large-scale installations, creating environments of moving images and sound with multiple video projections. Their extraordinary works have been shown at major international venues, but never before in the Southeastern United States. The exhibition will take place in three eight-week installments, each exploring the relationship between interior states of mind and external reality.

Outer and Inner Space places the three recent video installations in the context of classic video art from the 1960s to early 1980s. These early works of single-channel, monitor-based video art by the pioneering generations will be shown in an adjoining gallery; a different selection of early works will be paired with each installation. Video art has traveled an immense distance from its rough-edged, hand-held origins to the present. Advances include technological sophistication, grandeur of effect, and an ability to transport viewers to an experiential space between reality and fiction. Showing classics with recent work emphasizes video art's development and helps viewers appreciate it as a discipline with its own history, underlying formal issues and broadly shared thematic concerns.

Pipilotti Rist, Sip My Ocean
Jan. 19-March 17, 2002
"Sip My Ocean" treats themes of love, loss, and body politics in a mesmerizing double-screen projection. It is accompanied by a selection of early works addressing related themes by Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Cecelia Condit, Joan Jonas, Paul McCarthy, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, William Wegman, and Hannah Wilke.

Shirin Neshat, Rapture
April 6-June 2, 2002
"Rapture" uses lush black-and-white projections on opposite walls to explore the strict division between men and women in some Islamic countries. A selection of early videos treats related themes of gender roles, cultural identity and spatial divides. Included are works by Marina Abramovic & Ulay, Vito Acconci, Klaus vom Bruch, Shirley Clarke, Juan Downey, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Charlemagne Palestine, Howardena Pindell, Daniel Reeves, Edin Velez, and Bill Viola. Music composed by Sussan Deyhim, who will perform at the museum's April 5 Fast/Forward.

Jane and Louise Wilson, Stasi City
June 22-Aug. 18, 2002
Using four projectors simultaneously in opposite corners of the room, "Stasi City" presents a dynamic and disorienting view of the abandoned headquarters of the former East German secret police. Works by Ant Farm & T. R. Uthco, James Byrne, Peter Campus, Dan Graham, Mary Lucier, Branda Miller, Bruce Nauman, Marcel Odenbach, Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut, Charlemagne Palestine, Richard Serra, Steina, and Bill Viola explore related themes of vision, anxiety, surveillance and power.

This exhibition explores mature themes and several works contain some nudity. Under age 17 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

This exhibition is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. The Exhibition Award program was founded in 1998 to honor Emily Hall Tremaine. It rewards innovation and experimentation among curators by supporting thematic exhibitions that challenge audiences and expand the boundaries of contemporary art. Additional funding was received from The Council of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Fabergé Ball Endowment. Other contributors include the Friends of Art; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; Marion Boulton Stroud; and Mr. and Mrs. T. Fleetwood Garner through The Community Foundation; Bill and Sara Borowy; Paul and Sara Monroe; and La Difference. State-of-the-art digital video equipment by Zenith Electronics Corporation.

Admission
Exhibition tickets required for all visitors. Please pick up your tickets on the day of your visit at the Ticket Desk in the Main Lobby.
Series Tickets (all three exhibitions)
Adults $12
Students & Youth (ages 13-18 or with full-time student ID) $9
Free to Museum members, Children (age 12 and younger)
Members’ Guests $12 (maximum 4 per day)

Single Tickets (each exhibition)
Adults $5
Students & Youth (individual or group, ages 13-18 or with full-time student ID) $3
Free to Museum Members, Children (age 12 and younger)
Members’ Guests $4 (maximum 4 per day)
Adult Groups (10 or more in one ticket purchase) $4

Related Events
January 18
An opening celebration for Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts begins at 7 p.m. and continues to 10 p.m. Included are live music, refreshments, a cash bar, and a one-night display of single-frame films by Janeann Dill and the V.C.U. School of the Arts. The event is free and open to the public.

February 8
Fast/Forward presents Miranda July's "The Swan Tool" at 8 p.m. The artist, who is 27 years old, combines video, performance, live music and new digital architecture in a narrative depicting the mundane and the bizarre, with original music by DJ Zac Love. Single tickets are $18 in the museum's lobby or telephone 804/340-1405.

February 20
"Sound, Color, Light, Movement, Space: Video Art Then and Now" will be the topic of a lecture by John Ravenal, curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the museum. The lecture will be in the auditorium at 6 p.m. Ravenal organized the museum's video-art exhibition Outer and Inner Space. He will discuss the history of video art and some of its foremost practitioners. Tickets are $5 (members, students, seniors $3). Telephone 804/340-1405.

April 5
Fast/Forward presents Sussan Deyhim at 8 p.m. Deyhim, an Iranian-born composer and singer, combines experimental vocals with Middle Eastern traditions in a mesmerizing solo performance. Single tickets are $18 in the museum's lobby or telephone 804/340-1405.

April 18
Michael Rush, director of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, will speak on "The Medium is Still the Message: Video Art" in the auditorium at 6 p.m. For 15 years, Rush has been a significant presence in contemporary art as an artist (video and theater), writer/critic and arts administrator. In 2000, he was named the first director of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. He is the author of the recently published New Media in Late 20th Century Art and the forthcoming Video Art. He is the creator of more than a dozen award-winning original video projects, documentaries and experimental theater works. His talk is presented in conjunction with the showing of the museum's exhibition Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts. Tickets are $5 (members, students, seniors $3). Telephone 804/340- 1405.

Meet the Curator
VIDEO ART: Dialogue about Outer & Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts With John Ravenal, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Part 1: Pipilotti Rist, Sip My Ocean
Feb 6 and 27, 2 pm

Part 2: Shirin Neshat, Rapture
April 17, 2 pm
May 8, 2 pm

Part 3: Jane & Louise Wilson, Stasi City
June 26, 2 pm
July 10, 2 pm

Admission free; tickets are required.
Ticket Desk, 340-1405
Meet at the Information Desk.
Limited to 15 participants each session

In conjunction with Outer & Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts, the museum's curator of modern and contemporary art, John Ravenal, will conduct several 50-minute sessions that com­bine viewing and discussion about video art. Ravenal will offer introductory comments that shed light on the history and impor­tance of this new art form. Visitors will then view the exhibition for themselves, after which they will again meet with Ravenal to discuss their impressions.

Exhibition Book
OUTER & INNER SPACE
By John B. Ravenal, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts with essays by Laura Cottingham, Eleanor Heartney, and Jonathan Knight Crary.
Paperback, 112 pages, 95 color and 28 b&w illustrations
$34.95 (Museum members $31.45), plus tax

Borrowing from the title of Andy Warhol's 1965 double-screen film, Outer and Inner Space, this book explores how video art addresses the interplay between external reality and internal states of mind. Three recent video installations--by Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, and Jane & Louise Wilson-- are placed in the context of forty influential early works from the late 1960s to mid-1980s. These pairings underscore both the chance and the continutiy in video art, from its rough-edged experimental origins to works that use sophisticated technology to create environments of image and sound.

Image:
Stasi City (Interview room partial view Hohenshönhausen), 1997, by Jane and Louise Wilson; C-type print mounted on aluminum (Courtesy of 303 Gallery)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2800 Grove Avenue at the Boulevard
Richmond, Virginia USA 23221-2466
Information: 804/340-1400
TDD: 804/340-1401

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