Dias & Riedweg...
dal 11/5/2009 al 31/7/2009
Segnalato da
11/5/2009
Dias & Riedweg...
The Americas Society, New York
and it becomes something
Curated by Gabriela Rangel
Americas Society is proud to announce Dias & Riedweg…and it becomes something else, the first solo U.S. exhibition by Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, a duo of Brazilian/Swiss internationally recognized artists based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Curated by Gabriela Rangel, the exhibition features five video and installation projects that examine the dichotomy between the private and the public spheres in different contexts. Dias & Riedweg’s practice tackles social and political issues through a poetic fusion of video, ethnography, and performance art, opening up new lines of thought about human interaction and identity across borders.
For over fifteen years Dias & Riedweg have collaborated on multidisciplinary projects in Brazil, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East in which they have tested the critical potential of the moving image, using video to delve into the relationships between ethics and aesthetics and between art and politics. Directly involving both the subject and the viewer in their work, they sidestep traditional documentation to examine spaces of subjectivity in a technologically mediated world. Dias & Riedweg have garnered international recognition for their projects at prestigious venues including the Kunsthalle Oslo (2008), Documenta 12 (Kassel, Germany, 2007), the Venice Biennale (2007), Kiasma (Helsinski, 2004), InSITE (San Diego–Tijuana, 2000), and the São Paulo Biennale (1998).
ACCOMPANYING PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Artists’ Talk
Tuesday, May 12, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society, 680 Park Ave., New York, NY
Speakers: Artists Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg with Curator Gabriela Rangel
The artists will discuss their practice and projects.
Featuring Moving Truck, an outdoor video projection with images of Throw (2004) that will link the urban space of New York and the current political landscape in the U.S. with Dias & Riedweg’s exhibition at the Americas Society’s art gallery.
RSVP required. Please e-mail culture@americas-society.org. Members-only reception to follow.
Panel Discussion: Optical Drama and Residual Modernities
Tuesday, May 19, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society, 680 Park Ave., New York, NY
Speakers: Artists Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg; Beatriz Jaguaribe, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; John Hanhardt, Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum; and Curator Gabriela Rangel. Moderated by Heike Arzápalo, independent critic and filmmaker.
Participants will discuss the role of the moving image in deconstructing discourses of modernity.
RSVP required. Please email culture@americas-society.org. Members-only reception to follow.
Street Action: Moving Truck
Tuesday, June 9, 6:00 p.m.
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Ave. (between 105th and 106th Streets), New York, NY
As part of the Museum Mile Festival, a special street project will take place outside El Museo del Barrio. In a truck parked outside the museum, there will be a simultaneous video exchange between passersby and the artists Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, featuring the artists’ footage of the Botafogo community in Rio de Janeiro.
Image: Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg. The Raimundos, Severinos and Franciscos (1998). Public art project and multimedia installation. Image courtesy of the artists.
Americas Society
680 Park Ave., New York, NY 10065
Gallery hours: Wed–Sat, 12:00–6:00 p.m.