WPAC in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Washington presents video work from around the globe- a selection of video works by artists participating in WPAC's Video Call, works by young German video artists as organized by the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, and in light of the upcoming Inauguration in Washington, DC, special screenings of Antonio Muntadas' Political Advertisement 2000 and Johan Grimonprez's Dial H.I.S.T.O.R.Y - videos that explore the role of media throughout the final three decades of the 20th century in shaping public opinion.
WHERE
Goethe-Institut Washington, 814 Seventh Street, NW
(metro:Gallery Place/Chinatown)
phone: 202-289-1200 x101
DATE
Wednesday, January 17th, 2001
TIME
6:00pm - 11:00pm
RSVP
202-639-1828 or wpainfo@corcoran.org
THE PROGRAM
I. With Special Introductory Presentation: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Political Advertisement 2000, Antonio Muntadas, 60 minute video
edited by Muntadas and Marshall Reese
Political Advertisement, now in its sixteenth year, depicts the styles and evolution of political spots over the past half century. Muntadas and Reese have created a rare and spellbinding media topology. The result according to curator Christopher Phillips, is simultaneously hilarious and chilling.
II. A Selection of Video Works from WPAC's Video Call 2000: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Shibboleth, 2000
Vin Grabill and Carol Hess
Baltimore, MD
Lake, 2000
2 minute video
Rebecca Dolan
Baltimore, MD
I Don't Know How to Love Him, 1999
4 minute video
Patrick Wright
Baltimore, MD
AD Vice, 1999
Tony Cokes with Music by SWIPE
Providence, RI
Ordinary Eternal Machinery, 1999
Colby Caldwell and Bernard Welt
Washington, DC
Survival Skills
Kids on the Hill
Baltimore, MD
III. SURFACE / SURPLUS
A Presentation of Video Works by Young Artists Selected by Heike Munder, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Germany: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Rodeo, 2000
9 minute video
Jeanne Faust
Leidenschaften/Passions, 1996
14 minute video
Anna Gollwitzer
I Closed My Eyes, 1997
Isabelle Heimerdinger
Melting Away, 1997
7 minute video
Annette Hollywood
Telemistica, 1999
22 minute video
Christian Jankowski
Jewels, 1997
1 minute
Kerstin Kartscher
No Sunshine, 1997
6 minute video
Bjørn Melhus
CNN-Question and Answer, 1997
6 minute video
Daniel Pflumm
Different Games, 1999
6 minute video
Susanne Winterling
INTERMISSION
IV. Special Closing Presentation: 9:15pm - 10:30pm
Dial H.I.S.T.O.R.Y, Johan Grimonprez, 1995-97
68 minute video
Premiered at Dokumenta X, Grimonprez presents a video-film chronology of airline highjackings around the world. The fictional narrative soundtrack is inspired by Don DeLillo's novels White Noise and Mao II which the artist regards as highlighting the value of the spectacular in a catastrophic culture. The powerful work combines photographs, digital images, news, reports, clips from science fiction movies, and other found footage to denounce the media's obsession with disaster and investigate how the media shapes reality and history. Grimonprez says that he wants to detect the impact of images on our feelings, our knowledge and memory.
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