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Indepth Arts News:
"MAKING TIME: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video & Film"
2000-03-04 until 2000-05-28
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art
Lake Worth, FL,
USA United States of America
As light is to painting, so is time to video.
Considering time as a material in video and
film is an exploration into the way
contemporary artists manipulate time in an
effort to gain insight and meaning in a work of
art. Making Time looks at the work of artists
who use their consciousness of time as a
subject matter. Beginning with many influential
single-channel video works from the 1960s
and early 1970s including Andy Warhol's
Empire and Gilbert & George's Singing
Sculpture, Making Time traces time-based
work through the present, juxtaposing these
works against narrative works from the same
timeframe. An essay by UCLA film and video
historian Peter Wollen will give a historical
overview of these works and their influence on
subsequent generations. Adriano Pedrosa,
associate curator of the Sao Paulo Bienal, will
examine the contemporary works vis-á-vis their
status as objects and their physical
relationship to the audience. Amy
Cappellazzo, curator and editor of Making
Time will address the conceptual
underpinnings of time as a subject matter,
linking the topic to minimalism and conceptual
art. In addition, her essay will discuss various
technical strategies employed by the artists to
push the boundaries of their respective media.
Time in art had for centuries been connected
to the idea of permanence, and then, since
the 1960s, performance. But where is time
nowNULL In an age when global events are
shared worldwide in real time, artists have
responded by producing works that challenge
our conventional notions of time by altering
clocks, memory, constancy, documentation,
movements and actions. Time, after all, is a
universal language, yet it is perhaps the least
commonly understood. Making Time attempts
to clarify that gap.
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material
in Contemporary Video & Film is the opening
exhibition of the Palm Beach/Institute of
Contemporary Art, a new center dedicated to
contemporary art, formerly known as the
Lannan Foundation. The exhibition dates are
4 March- 28 May 2000.
Historical works by:
Vito Acconci
John Baldassari
Lynda Benglis
Fischli/Weiss
Gilbert & George
Gary Hill
Shigeko Kubota
Bruce Nauman
Nam June Paik
Ilene Segalove
Steina
Andy Warhol
Contemporary works by:
Darren Almond
Francis Alys
Alex Bag
Andrea Bowers
Stan Douglas
Ceal Floyer
Dara Friedman
Douglas Gordon
Rodney Graham
Lucy Gunning
Jose Antonio
Hernandez-Diez
Jonathan Horowitz
Stephen Murphy
Sam Taylor-Wood
Diana Thater
Peter Sarkisian
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