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45 Years of Performance Video from EAI
as part of 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)
On view November 1, 2009 - April 5, 2010
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY
In conjunction with 100 Years, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) has organized a special presentation 45 Years of Performance Video from EAI. Featuring works from 1965 to the present, this survey highlights over four decades of artists' performances created specifically for video, from conceptual exercises of the late 1960s to new, digitally-mediated performance narratives.
Organized by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Performa. The exhibition is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, P.S.1 Chief Curatorial Advisor and MoMA Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art; and RoseLee Goldberg, Performa Curator and Director.
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Featuring works from 1965 to the present, 45 Years of Performance Video from EAI highlights over four decades of artists' performances created specifically for video, from body-based conceptual exercises of the late 1960s to new, digitally mediated performance narratives. The histories of performance art and video art are inextricably linked, with a rich cross-fertilization between them: performance artists deploy video space and time as another dimension in which to stage their performances; video artists step in front of the camera as performer and actor in their own works. The thirty-eight works on view, all drawn from EAI's extensive collection, trace the multiple creative and critical strategies that artists have applied to the merger of video and performance.
The exhibition 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009), a Free Space program, a collaboration between P.S.1 and Performa, gathers important happenings, actions, moments, and gestures to outline a history of performance art that is still largely unknown. This version of the exhibition is presented on the occasion of Performa 09, the third visual art performance biennial taking place November 1-22, 2009.
Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Ant Farm, Eleanor Antin, Charles Atlas, Alex Bag, John Baldessari, Phyllis Baldino, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Cheryl Donegan, VALIE EXPORT, Forcefield, General Idea, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Harry Dodge + Stanya Kahn, Mike Kelley, Tony Labat, Kalup Linzy, Paul McCarthy, Charlotte Moorman, Shana Moulton, Rita Myers, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Alix Pearlstein, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Carolee Schneemann, Stuart Sherman, Michael Smith, Ryan Trecartin, Steina, William Wegman, Hannah Wilke, Jud Yalkut
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Vital Signals: Japanese & American Video Art from the 1960s & ‘70s
as part of Fall 2009 Performing Arts Season: Japan Transatlantic: Tokio-Berlin.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Frank L. Ellsworth Performing Arts Lecture Series
Japan Society, NY
Open Television 2–4 pm
The new medium of video and its inherent accessibility changed the way artists approached the moving image and spurred the growth of communities. The artists presented in this screening saw video as a way to directly engage with culture. This program includes work by Nam June Paik, Jud Yalkut, Toshio Matsumoto, Fujiko Nakaya, Chris Burden, TVTV, Saburo Muraoka, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Keiji Uematsu, Ko Nakajima, Shirley Clark, Video Earth and Video Information Center. Video works lists
The Language of Technology 5:45–7:15 pm
This section highlights early examples of video art that explored technical developments such as electronic image manipulation and instantaneous playback. Artists include Nam June Paik, CTG, Gary Hill, Toshio Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Keigo Yamamoto, James Byrne, Takahiko Iimura, Kohei Ando and Morihiro Wada. Video works lists
Artist Discussion 7:30–8:15 pm
With Takahiko Iimura and American video artist Mary Lucier, moderated by Barbara London, Curator of Video and Digital Media, Museum of Modern Art.
Body Acts 8:30–10:30 pm
The artists featured in Body Acts use video technology to experiment with physical and emotional gesture in performative works created for the camera. Artists include Joan Jonas, Takahiko Iimura, James Byrne, Norio Imai, William Wegman, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Ante Bozanich, Mako Idemitsu, Paul McCarthy, John Baldessari, Hakudo Kobayashi, Mobuhiro Kawanaka and Vito Acconci. Video works lists
Takahiko Iimura, Observer/Observed, 1975-76
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Vital Signals, a program of early video art from the U.S. and Japan, highlights the parallel developments in these countries during the 1960s and '70s. Co-presented Japan Society and EAI, and organized in collaboration with the Yokohama Museum of Art and a team of Japanese curators and scholars, the three-part screening program brings together early Japanese video alongside seminal works from the EAI collection. A special discussion moderated by Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York will include artists Takahiko Iimura and Mary Lucier.
The introduction of the first consumer-grade video recorder, the Sony "Portapak," in the mid-1960s contributed to a fertile period of creative exploration, as artists and activists engaged with the new video technology. Video by artists based in the U.S. and Europe in the 1960s and '70s, including Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman, is well known internationally. Until now, however, the parallel activities of artists working in Japan, the birthplace of the camcorder and other video technologies, have been screened only rarely. Using a familiar tool kit, these artists explored the nascent medium in unique and innovative ways.
An accompanying catalogue and DVD compilation of the Japanese works from this series will be published by EAI at the end of the year. Vital Signals is currently touring the U.S. and Japan. For information on screenings outside New York, please click here.
Vital Signals has been organized and produced by Ann Adachi of EAI. The video programs were curated by Ann Adachi and Yukie Kamiya, Chief Curator, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, and Hirofumi Sakamoto, Professor, Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan.
This program is supported, in part, by the Japan-US Friendship Commission.
Toshio Matsumoto, Mona Lisa, 1973
Toshio Matsumoto, For The Damaged Right Eye
Toshio Matsumoto, Andy Warhol - Re-production, 1974
Paul McCarthy, Black and White Tapes, 1972.
