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Indepth Arts News:
"Speed of Vision: on the construction and perception of time in video art"
2000-06-18 until 2000-09-06
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Ridgefield, CT,
USA
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to
present SPEED OF VISION, a highly innovative
exhibition composed of single-channel videotapes and
mixed-media installations. This exhibition explores how the
video medium can manipulate and influence the viewers’
sense of time, inviting visitors to assume the role of sci-fi
time travelers and encouraging them to forge individual
paths through the various installations. The galleries are
divided into three distinct time zones of slow motion, real
time, and hyper-speed.
Like other art forms that rely on time
as a main medium – theater, dance, performance – these
video works simulate real-life experiences. As a result, the
exhibition fosters emotional and psychological responses
that compel visitors to question their bearings and
reexamine their understanding of reality.
Curated by Matthew Yokobosky, exhibition designer at
the Brooklyn Museum of Art and independent curator, this
exhibition provides a complex environment of overlapping
sounds and juxtaposed images. Included in the exhibition
design is a video compilation which explores the
relationship between man’s ambition to travel fast and his
simultaneous desire to record that accomplishment. The
compilation highlights documentary scenes of space travel
in contrast to Hollywood film excerpts.
Eleven ambitious and sophisticated works are featured in
SPEED OF VISION, each requiring the viewer to
reexamine the paradoxical conception of time as both a real
and artificial construction. The following artists are
represented, all of whom challenge the way the passage of
time is perceived by exploiting editing and filming
techniques to their fullest: Doug Aitken, Jonas
Åkerlund, Charles Atlas, Jessica Bronson, Eiko &
Koma, Annika Eriksson, Tom Kalin, Matthew
McCaslin, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Nam June Paik,
and Kathy Rose. The catalogue accompanying the
exhibition will feature a specially commissioned project by
photographer Judy Linn.
IMAGE
Kathy Rose
Performance View
Photo: Miguel Villalobos
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