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Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence 2015-2016

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of three books of poems: "19 Names For Our Band" (2008), "James Brown Is Dead" (2011) and "Sleeper Hold" (2015). His projects fuse the visual arts and writing, combing poetic/essayistic texts with video installation, photography and performance, and have been presented at P.S.1/MoMA in New York, the Hammer in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, among others. He received a BA in

The 58th Venice Biennale Exhibition: Meet Curator Ralph Rugoff

This year’s prestigious Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition, its 58th, has been curated by Ralph Rugoff, an American art critic who became director of London’s Hayward Gallery. Seeking to assemble artists he felt somehow captured our turbulent, some would say perilous zeitgeist, Rugoff wryly titled the show “May You Live In Interesting Times.” He explains why in this video, shot on-site during the festival’s opening week, and takes us on a tour of a few of the show’s hig

Rachel Rose: Between Living and Non-Living

Meet the praised New York-based video artist Rachel Rose, who creates visually poetic and multi-layered narratives, exploring different “scales of mortality”: “I try to use myself a bit like a tiny sensor, and then quickly move outside myself to the place that it spots,” she says. Rose believes that all of her video works stem from a question or a feeling, such as fear or unease: “Trying to understand that feeling and connect it to places and time outside myself, to deepen it

Ericka Beckman: DOUBLE REVERSE

You The Better (1983), produced, directed, shot and edited by Ericka Beckman. Produced with funds from The National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts For the past four decades, the New York- and Boston-based artist Ericka Beckman has centred her video work on the visual language of games, fairy tales and folklore. While these might be sources of childhood fun, Beckman is not playing around: her dark, techno-futuristic films and installations us

William Kentridge LET US TRY FOR ONCE

KABOOM!, 2018 inaugurates the exhibition: a three-channel work projected onto a model scaled to the stage of The Head & the Load, alongside charcoal drawings used in the production. Birds, soldiers, historical figures, waterfalls, and landscapes recreate an imaginative topography in the North Gallery. “The head and the load are the troubles of the neck” goes the Ghanaian proverb. The Head & the Load tells the story of the nearly 2 million African porters and carriers used by

Jennifer Steinkamp - IMPEACH

Jennifer Steinkamp (American, b. 1958), Blind Eye, 1, 2018. Video installation, 12' x 43' 2" (3.66 x 13.16 m) “The centerpiece of the exhibition is Steinkamp’s Impeach (2019). Previously exhibited as a printed billboard in “Jam, The Billboard Creative,” a public art project organized by Mona Kuhn and Alex Prager in Los Angeles in 2017, Impeachhere bursts to life as a digital animation for the first time. A mash-up of stage diving fruit, especially peaches, plunging themselves

Bill Viola - LIFE DEATH REBIRTH ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS JANUARY 26, 2019 - MARCH 31, 2019

This exhibition brings together two artists – born centuries apart – who explore the same universal themes with works of transcendent beauty and raw emotional power. In 2006, pioneering video artist Bill Viola saw the finest of a collection of these drawings at Windsor Castle, and was astonished by the Renaissance master’s expressive use of the body to convey emotional and spiritual states. Although created in a radically different medium, Viola’s own works also grapple with

PIPILOTTI RIST: ÅBN MIN LYSNING (OPEN MY GLADE)

Courtesy the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Since the middle of the 1980s Pipilotti Rist (born 1962) has continuously explored, challenged and exploded the potentials, rules, conventions and limitations of a constantly evolving palette of video technologies. In her works, video is not just video, but also painting and space. Her work is at one and the same time high-tech and sensual, radiantly colourful and critical, weightless and body-bound. … The artist has wished to trans

Ryan Trecartin: The Safe Space of Movies

Step inside groundbreaking video artist Ryan Trecartin’s surreal universe, which has been described as a place where “horror movies meet reality TV.” In this comprehensive video, the leading figure of a new generation describes his movies as a “safe space,” where you can explore dubious ideas or characters. “It doesn’t have to be a statement, it can be a landscape of opportunities, of thought and invention rather than answers.” Trecartin’s first movie project was in a small f

Bruce Nauman: DISAPPEARING ACTS

Bruce Nauman Contrapposto Studies, i through vii 2015/2016 “Video — new to art, cheap to produce, easy to show — became a primary medium for Mr. Nauman and with it he continued, for a while, to be his own most malleable subject. In a piece called “Art Make-Up: No. 1 White, No. 2 Pink, No. 3 Green, No. 4 Black,” he smears his face and bare chest with layers of colored pigment. He’s turning himself into a living painting, but he also seems to be playing with the fictions and st

Cao FEI - Asia One

Cao Fei', "Asia One" (2018) Cao Fei’s new video, Asia One (2018) is currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in a group show called, “One Hand Clapping” Set in one of the logistics warehouses in Shanghai, the artist investigates how automation and robots will impact the lives of humans once they have find themselves replaced by technology and left without anything to do. Asia One - Part of One Hand Clapping Group Show, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum till October

Sarah Lucas: Au naturel

Au Naturel is satisfying at every turn. It’s tough. It’s hilarious. It’s beautifully done. And it’s absolutely true to its maker, a proud spitfire—a “rude girl” sensitive to her working-class background and eager to stick it to any mofo who shows her gender disrespect, be it in the workplace, at home or in the tabloids. From the start of her career in the early 1990s, when she was aligned with the Young British Artists—fellow Goldsmiths graduates like Damien Hirst, Fiona Rae

Jennifer Steinkamp: Blind Eye

Jennifer Steinkamp (American, b. 1958), Rapunzel, 5, 2005. Video installation, 12' x 18' (3.66 x 5.49 m) Jennifer Steinkamp (American, b. 1958) is a Los Angeles–based media and installation artist whose video animations explore nature, architecture, contemporary social issues, and the passage of time. This is the Clark’s inaugural video exhibition, featuring six of Steinkamp’s projections that encapsulate the themes and visual metaphors she has developed throughout her career

Trevor Paglen: A Study of Invisible Things

"Trevor Paglen’s A Study of Invisible Images is the first exhibition of works to emerge from his ongoing research into computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI) and the changing status of images. This body of work has formed over years of collaboration with software developers and computer scientists and as an artist-in-residence at Stanford University. The resulting prints and moving images reveal a proliferating and otherwise imperceptible category of “invisible images”

Bill Viola: Electronic Renaissance

From March 10 to July 23, 2017 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be presenting Electronic Renaissance, a retrospective of work by Bill Viola. A single, comprehensive exhibition occupying both the Piano Nobile and the Strozzina will immerse the viewer in space, music and sound as the exhibition tracks Viola's career from his early experimental work in the 1970s through his recent installations. Exploring spirituality, experience and perception, Viola probes humanity: peop

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art

The new show "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City is a mesmerising exploration of video and immersive art from 1905-2016. ArtPlay is excited to see such a substantial and compelling survey of video art being presented by the Whitney, a true sign of the times when digital art is increasingly finding its way into major museums, collections and homes. According to the Whitney, the exhibition is the most technologically c

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