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June 08, 2006 | Film & Video |
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Plus Ultra Gallery, New York
Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev : Into
the Future Filmed in Siberia, “Into the Future” offers a direct and thoughtful verification of the effects of change and transformation. Through the juxtaposition of slowly changing images of industrial wastelands and the matter-of-fact recording of people boarding a ferry, they offer a complex, non-ironic look into that ambiguous point at which the future becomes the present and how we cope with that. Read on...Plus Ultra Gallery, New York |
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TART, San Francisco
Scotland‚s Secret Bunker: Featured Artist, Maria
Antelman + It‚s Happening!
Scotland‚s Secret Bunker is an ongoing project that exists as a video archive and viewing space. Housed in a small loft area, the archive offers new works by a diverse group of national and international artists who incorporate 'sampling' techniques into their practice. In Thehereafter by Maria Antelman, imagined parallel worlds play out within a poetic 'Markeresque' framework. Text and aerial images take us on a flight of fancy while fleeting thoughts reflect on the journey. The subtle pacing of the piece builds into an internal rhythm giving space to some unexpected questions. Read on...TART, San Francisco |
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Kitchen Center, New York
New Video, New Europe Curated by Hamza Walker New Video, New Europe is a survey exhibition of recent video work by more than three dozen artists from sixteen Eastern European countries stretching from the Baltic through the Balkans, including Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The works in the exhibition reflect a variety of genres and approaches – documentary, diaristic, ethnographic, and experimental – and are broken up into a series of five programs which tackle different themes. Read on...Kitchen Center, New York |
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Les filles du calvaire, Paris
Martin Sastre : AURA
Uruguayan artist Martin Sastre has became one of the most important figures of his generation in the scope of the new Latin American art. Basing his work on video as a media, this artist has been recognized as the creator of a language of his own. He has been able to conjugate pop and political discourse, making his works a unique exercise of social criticism in tune with smash hits we can all sing to. Read on...Les filles du calvaire, Paris |
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Kirkhoff, Copenhagen
Lucas Ajemian & Jason Ajemian
For this exhibition Ajemian has made the video Out of Nowhere/From Beyond which is a documentation of a performance. Together with his brother, Jason Ajemian, who is a jazz musician, he has transcribed Black Sabbath’s Into the Void from 1971 to a new version of the song performed backwards by a ten piece orchestra with a vocal accompaniment by the artist himself. The song is recorded in a church in Chicago with classical musicians. Jason Ajemian is the conductor. The project relates to the numerous accusations against heavy metal music’s deliberate inclusion of hidden, occult and satanistic messages, which stimulate people’s subconsciousness and debase morality among young people. By using classic instruments and choosing a church as a location Ajemian elevates the song and plays on people’s fascination of meeting the sublime, seen as an opponent to the music’s supposed manipulating and degrading aspects. Into the Void describes a movement out in space away from the earth, which is marked by physical and mental decay to a new and better world where freedom rules. Read on...Kirkhoff, Copenhagen |
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David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
William Jones : There should be a new word for
happiness Jones’s new body of work was inspired by his parallel career as an archivist in the gay adult video industry. In the course of viewing hundreds of hours of porn, he has developed a fascination with its marginalia: establishing shots revealing urban landscapes of the recent past, charmingly inept dialogue scenes, and close-ups of performers, many now dead. This material, while of no particular commercial use, can be seen as an invaluable document of a lost world of eroticism and sociability. It may even ask an implicit question of present-day spectators: if this was happiness, what do we have now? Read on...David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles |
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Thomas Erben, New York
Tejal Shah : What are You?
One of the most significant Indian artists of her generation, Tejal Shah (b. 1979) works in video, photography, and performance. For her first U.S. solo exhibition, she presents a new video installation in which the pliable language of gender is explored in a physical, concrete manner not only by her chosen subjects but also through the medium itself. Moving casually between staged performaces, documentary, music video and appropriation, Shah's "What are You?" creates a direct relationship to her subjects' manipulation of their own gender. Read on...Thomas Erben, New York |
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