Whitebox Art Center presents
TIME : : CODE
Video Art from the Past to the Present into the Future
February 23-March 28 2014
Opening February 23, 5-7pm
February 23-March 28 2014
Opening February 23, 5-7pm
curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes
Like the split screen of Timecode and its fracturing of both time and space, the exhibition creates a rhizome-like environment of video works that are as much in dialogue with each other as they are independent. The individual works run the gamut of subject matter that draw from the personal to the public, from reality to the imaginary, and coupled with TIME : : CODE’s exhibition presentation, critically engage social and political issues of our global contemporaneity.
Raul Zamudio
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Artists:
Michael Snow | Carolee Schneeman | Dennis Oppenheim | Gary Hill
TIME
: : CODE is an exhibition of video art selected from Whitebox Art
Center’s archive. The exhibition’s title and curatorial framework
metaphorically weave the technical nomenclature
for video and film synchronization, and the experimental film directed
by Mike Figgis. The former is addressed in the ostensible historical
arc of the exhibition consisting of important works by early video
pioneers including Michael Snow, Carolee Schneeman,
Dara Birnbaum, Dennis Oppenheim and others, which are shown along side a
succeeding generation of video artists who have innovatively engaged
the medium as their predecessors. The exhibition, however, resists
conventional sequential mapping of video art via
its other point of thematic departure: Mike Figgis’ Timecode (2000).
Timecode was
created by four cinematographers whom each shot a non-stop, 90-minute
take. These individual shots were then simultaneously played on one
screen split into
four sections. TIME : : CODE adopts this trope via a constellation of
video works that coalesce in their disparate shifts between single and
multichannel, analog, digital and animation, as well as diverse display
formats including LCD, CRT, projection, sculpture,
and installation.
Like the split screen of Timecode and its fracturing of both time and space, the exhibition creates a rhizome-like environment of video works that are as much in dialogue with each other as they are independent. The individual works run the gamut of subject matter that draw from the personal to the public, from reality to the imaginary, and coupled with TIME : : CODE’s exhibition presentation, critically engage social and political issues of our global contemporaneity.
Raul Zamudio
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Artists:
Helena von Karkkainen | Hans Breder | Jaime Davidovich | Jonas Mekas
Dara Birnbaum | Jean-Gabriel Périot | Dieter Froese | Braco Dimitrijevic | Blue Noses
Ai Weiwei | Stefano Cagol | Iván Navarro | Damian Ontiveros | Igor Molochevski
Gordon Cheung | Kiki Seror | Tania Candiani | Sislej Xhafa | Oreet Ashery
Larissa Sansour | Adolfo Doring | Wojtek Ulrich | Robert Boyd | S&P Stanikas
Mary Mattingly | Ferrán Martín | Yucef Merhi | Alina and Jeff Bliumis | Roi Varaa | Javier Tellez |Arlene Schloss
Whitebox Art Center
329 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
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