Tag Archive "screening-gallery"
Video 2: Kelly Richardson’s Twilight Avenger
Here’s a unicorn alert. At Screening Video, Twilight Avenger highlights the magic atmospherics that HD Video can create.
Weekly Update – Pow, bam, kiss, kill at Screening Video
This week’s Weekly has my review of Tiny Riot Project at Screening Video. Below is my copy. Care Bears on high alert to combat the peace-loving protesters. At about age 8, children start to make fun of previously-cherished stuffed animals who once were the love of their lives. The mockery of childhood “friends” is normal and healthy and part of growing up – what adult doesn’t like a good joke about Santa? Kris Lefcoe‘s Tiny Riot Project at Screening Video Gallery taps into your inner 8-year old. The stop-motion animation is a tale of “power-violating-the-innocents” that’s right out of your ... More » »
Seeing and Surveillance. (From artist to artists).
Post by Max Mulhern Deborah Stratman, still from In Order Not to be Here, a video about surveillance that showed a year ago at Screening Video Gallery. (All photos by Libby, unless otherwise noted). Is the heightened state of surveillance in our world changing the way we see? I wonder because despite the exponential increase in the channels through which to diffuse art and talk about it my art seems to be increasingly invisible. Do other artists feel this way? Is there a corresponding blindness operating here as well?
Magnetic Movie’s spooky science at Screening Video
from Magnetic Movie, by Semiconductor (UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) A video about the forces we cannot see sounds like an oxymoron. I honestly don’t know if the coronas and corollas demonstrating electromagnetic fields in the video Magnetic Movie at Screening Video are the real thing or a rather literal visual translation of electro-magnetic forces or pure fantasy. But it sure is a wow! Better than the Franklin Institute (I remember the kids’ hair standing on end during a class trip)! from Magnetic Movie, by Semiconductor (UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) The video, which is by ... More » »
American Dream noir at Vox
James Johnson, Some Rooms-Part I (Yours), installation detail Darkness is my pillow at Vox Populi this month. Almost everything is noir, and the American Dream has turned into something lost, exploded, longed for and gone. At least that’s what I got over almost everything I saw there. The most ambitious work on the subject is James Johnson‘s photo installation, Some Rooms-Part I (Yours). Corey Antis‘ smallish formalist paintings also refer to spaces and memory and feelings; and the video by Deborah Stratman at Screening Gallery, just inside Vox, also refers to these ideas. (Sarah Zwerling‘s Window, in the video lounge, ... More » »
What we want to see Friday
Here’s a few things we’re interested in seeing this crisp, clear and cold Friday night. Check the Funnel Pages for times. 222 Gallery John Freeborn pulled together an exhibit Big Kids Little Kids based on his book by the same name, at 222 Gallery. John Freeborn’s book Big Kids Little Kids has exploded into the real world as an exhibit. Artists featured in the book (many Space 1026ers and others who’ve shown at 222 Gallery, Spector and elsewhere over the last 8 years) will be in the show. Book signing at the opening includes 50 books with dust covers specially ... More » »
Lysergic Meltdown: Takeshi Murata at Screening
Takeshi Murata, four stills from Untitled (Pink Dot) at Screening.I got to see Takeshi Murata‘s Untitled (Pink Dot) at Screening when I was at Vox Populi for the artblog focus group (see post). Screening is the video gallery run by video-wonks-extraordinaire and Vox members Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib. It’s situated inside Vox in a room within a room, its entrance behind a black curtain. The press materials from Hironaka and Suib call Murata’s film “lysergic” and I’ll go with that. Murata’s piece is a psychedelic tour de force that appropriates the 1982 Vietnam-era movie Rambo and takes it down. ... More » »
New video gallery opens, and more
from Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez, screening at the new SCREENING gallery.Look for Philadelphia’s newest gallery, opening Friday. It’s called SCREENING, run by Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka, who say it’s the only gallery dedicated to the exhibition of innovative and challenging works of art on film and video. For its inaugural exhibition, Screening presents Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez. Produced in 1997, Grimonprez’ comprehensive and prescient chronology of worldwide airline hijackings combines documentary imagery with narration inspired by Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Mao II to “highlight the value of the spectacular in our catastrophe ... More » »
