Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have forged a multimedia practice that international critics have identified as one of the most significant breakthroughs in conceptual art in the past decade. For the 2001 Venice Biennale, Cardiff and Miller produced The Paradise Institute, a 17 minute digital video experience combining film/video with the stunning stereo and binaural audio tracks that have become the trademark of their narrative, audio-driven walks through museums and urban landscapes.
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present Janet Cardiff and
George Bures Miller's multimedia, collaborative, project The
Paradise Institute. This is Cardiff and Miller¹s first solo
exhibition at the gallery.
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have forged a multimedia
practice that international critics have identified as one of the
most significant breakthroughs in conceptual art in the past
decade. For the 2001 Venice Biennale, Cardiff and Miller
produced The Paradise Institute, a 17 minute digital video
experience combining film/video with the stunning stereo and
binaural audio tracks that have become the trademark of their
narrative, audio-driven walks through museums and urban
landscapes. In this piece, as in others, the artists use sound
and moving images in fundamentally new ways, effectively
blurring the distinction between the actors in the film and the
observers in the audience. For The Paradise Institute, Cardiff
and Miller received the Biennale¹s Premio Prize, which is
reserved for the most promising emerging artists in the
exhibition.
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are both Canadian, and
currently live in Berlin, where Cardiff recently finished a DAAD
fellowship. Their work has been presented at some of the most
important venues for contemporary art, including the Carnegie
International, Pittsburgh, The Hamburger Banhoff, Berlin, PS1
Contemporary Art Center, New York, and the Tate Modern,
London.
Each seventeen-minute showing of The Paradise Institute can
accommodate 16 people. As each viewer requires his or her
own seat and headphones, this number is not flexible. In order
to accommodate everyone comfortably, with the least amount
of waiting time, showings on Saturday will be reserved by
appointment only.
For more information please contact Claudia Altman-Siegel.
Luhring Augustine Gallery, 531 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011