Videodreams: Between The Cinematic And The Theatrical - Softcover

Bal, Mieke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3883758388 ISBN 13: 9783883758381

Publisher: Walther König, Köln, 2004

Synopsis

The transition between a dream and reality is sometimes blurry and jagged--moments of panic, confusion, fear, joy, a trail of thoughts that carries emotions from one world to the next. This delicate, ever-shifting boundary between real and virtual environments is explored in Videodreams, the exhibition catalogue of recent video installations by Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Joan Jonas, Sharon Lockhart and other artists whose work is represented through multiple video or installation photographs. Selected texts by leading theoreticians of cinema and cultural studies examine the archaeology of backstages and location sets in a thorough investigation of artificiality and illusion.

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Theresa Hubbard was born in 1965 in Dublin, Ireland; Alexander Birchler was born in 1962 in Baden, Switzerland. Their solo exhibition Wild Walls has been mounted in Zurich, Amsterdam, and Marseille, and will travel to Berlin, New York, and Lisbon in 2002.

Theresa Hubbard was born in 1965 in Dublin, Ireland; Alexander Birchler was born in 1962 in Baden, Switzerland. Their solo exhibition Wild Walls has been mounted in Zurich, Amsterdam, and Marseille, and traveled to Berlin, New York, and Lisbon in 2002.

Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, born in 1957, represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale and was awarded a prize for her and George Bures Miller's work "The Paradise Institute." She has created site-specific audio and video works for a number of group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Sao Paulo Biennial; and the Carnegie International, among others.

Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives and works today. His work has been shown in New York at The Studio Museum, Harlem, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Dia Center for the Arts. He is represented in New York by David Zwirner gallery.

Rodney Graham was born in 1949 in Vancouver, a majestic city that sits at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. One of the country's wittiest conceptual artists, he has been recognized worldwide for his work. Graham, a member of the Vancouver School, has enjoyed exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and elsewhere. Graham represented Canada at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997, and is currently the subject of a travelling retrospective that opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and continues on to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Joan Jonas was born in 1936 in New York, where she currently lives and works. She received an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Columbia University, New York, in 1965. Her first performance retrospective was at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1979) and her first US retrospective was at the University Art Museum, Berkeley (1980) (Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 1981). She has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Institute of the Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; The Kitchen, New York, and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York. Jonas has had major retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1994), and Galerie der Stadt, Stuttgart, Germany (2000), and was represented in Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002).

Sharon Lockhart's photography and film work has been widely exhibited in national and international venues. A major survey exhibition of her work was presented at the Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam in 1999 and traveled to the Kunsthalle Zurich and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2000. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as the 1997 Santa Fe Biennial and the 1997 and 2000 Whitney Biennials.

Born in the Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1962, Aernout Mik has shown widely in Europe and was represented at the biennials of Sao Paolo (1991), Venice (1997, 2001), and Melbourne (1999). In the United States, he has mounted installations at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and Cornell University.

Tony Oursler was born in 1957 in upstate New York, and he received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Oursler's videos and installations have been widely exhibited internationally, including in solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. He was recently the subject of a traveling retrospective that appeared at the Williams College Museum of Art; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Des Moines Art Center. He has participated in the 2007 Whitney Biennial and Documentas 9 and 10. He currently lives and works in New York.

Catherine Sullivan was born in Los Angeles in 1968 and received an MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1997. Her work was shown at the 2004 Whitney Biennial and the 2003 Lyon Biennial, and she has previously exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and the UCLA Hammer Museum.

Artur Zmijewski was born in 1966 in Warsaw, Poland, where he continues to live and work. His projects have been presented solo at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, the Biennale di Sao Paulo 2001, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, among many others. He received an honorable mention at the 48th Venice Biennial.

Mieke Bal is Professor of Theory of Literature at Amsterdam University and is the author of Louise Bourgeois' Spider and Quoting Caravaggio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walther König, Köln
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 3883758388
• ISBN 13: 9783883758381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Pakesch Peter