Tag Archive "video"
David Page’s Camp X and From Here to There at Rutgers’ Stedman Gallery, Camden
–Andrea’s encounter with a performance succeeds in making her and the other viewers uncomfortable. The performance was part of a now-closed exhibit across the river from Philadelphia in Camden.–the artblog editors———————->Rutgers University’s Camden campus is hidden in plain sight from most Philadelphians, even though it is one stop on the PATCO train from 8th and Market Streets. The faculty exhibition at the university’s Stedman Gallery had a novel format this year. Cyril Reade, Director of the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts (which includes the Stedman Gallery and the Gordon Theater) asked five faculty members from disparate fields to curate an ... More » »
Detouched and Tiny Plays for Ireland at Project Arts Centre, Dublin
—Andrea’s trip to Ireland earlier this year unearthed an exhibit on the idea of touch and some 4-minute (yes, 4-minute!) theater pieces. Her review explains it all.–the artblog editors———————–>Detouched, a group show curated by Anthony Huberman, was on view at Project Arts Centre from Jan. 25 to March 30, 2013. Huberman’s thesis in inventing the neologism, detouched, was that by merging the hand with the machine, contemporary technology generates a detached sense of proximity, or a sense of detouch. The internet may bring us information at one remove. Art almost always does. But successful art conveys the sensation of touch, as ... More » »
From the vault – August, 2003, a video rewind
Ed. note: In celebration of artblog’s 10-year anniversary, we are bringing you content from our inaugural year, 2003. In August, 2003, we weighed the successes and failures of “video” as a medium. Debates were had and opinions were stated but in the end, it was decided that we were just too dang impatient for such a slowly-transmitted message! Video art has since become a bit more user-friendly and its rising popularity and increased accessibility have led us to become more receptive. Consider the dialogue below and remember to “be kind” as you “rewind”! ——————————- Video time By libby August 21, ... More » »
Movie review – Art is…The Permanent Revolution
I have never known a movie title with an ellipsis in it…and I don’t imagine that will become a trend. But that’s a small nit to pick in Art is…The Permanent Revolution, a documentary by Manfred Kirchheimer that focuses on three contemporary printmakers who make anti-war art. Along the way, the movie tells the stories (and shows the images) of some of the greatest protest art through the ages. It’s hard to say what’s better in the 82 minute documentary, the behind-the-scenes look at the studio practice of Sigmund Abeles, etcher, Ann Chernow, lithographer and Paul Marcus, woodcutter, or the parade of ... More » »
David McKenzie; Everything’s alright, nothing’s okay! at the Rosenwald Wolf Gallery
A young man in the nondescript uniform of his generation (trainers, tee shirt,…) dances in front of the automatic doors to a grocery store. His solo (captured on video) veers between street dancing and modern dance, then turns into the stumbling of a drunk. The slow motion, repeats and jump cuts of the video manipulation creates its own, sophisticated choreography. Edward and Me (2000) is the first of six videos in the Rosenwald Wolf Gallery‘s exhibition, David McKenzie; Everything’s alright, nothing’s okay! (through September 28). The video is smart and appealing – yet raises the question of what assumptions we’d ... More » »
Photo post sandwich – Two books and a movie reviewed
Photo Book – Reframing Photography Reframing Photography, the 560-page encyclopedic book on the subject includes everything about photography and then some. The book is for students, teachers and those in the self-taught orbit who want to do it themselves with a little help. Like those instruction manuals that come with your new camera, the book is a little overwhelming — although unlike those barely-English manuals, this book is written! There are fabulous essays written by the two authors, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes, in each of the four subject parts, and they live up to the encyclopedia: dense, with history, ... More » »
Jenny Drumgoole on Husky, Socks, Wing Bowl and those crazy cream cheese recipes for Paula Deene
Jenny Drumgoole’s subversive videos make us smile. The artist stars in her videos as a larger than life parody of a kind of super woman or super adolescent. She gives her character a task in some contest or other (Wing Bowl, Paula Deene Real Women of Philadelphia online recipe contest) and voila, she’s off and running with funny, visceral videos that sample from archival film footage as need be to mix it up. (See Drumgoole’s videos here). Her slimy and ridiculous recipes for cream cheese dishes will have you hesitate the next time you reach for the white spread in the ... More » »
Coming up next on our podcast series, an interview with Jenny Drumgoole
Jenny Drumgoole’s subversive videos make us smile. The artist, who is the star of her videos, creates a persona — a parody super-woman type — and inserts her into some special interest subculture with surprising results. Jenny has participated in the Philadelphia Wing Bowl, and was a contestant in the online cooking contest, Paula Deene Real Women of Philadelphia, (see her videos here). Her slimy and ridiculous recipes for cream cheese will have you hesitate the next time you reach for the white spread in the dairy case. But these videos, while slapstick in nature, have a message as well. They ... More » »
Juan Downey; the invisible architect at the Bronx Museum
Juan Downey was an important, yet under-recognized pioneer of video (and worked in a variety of other media), who was active in the downtown art scene in New York, where he moved in 1967 and remained until his premature death in 1993. A substantial body of his work has not been seen in the U.S. in decades. The Bronx Museum of the Arts and MIT’s List Visual Art Center have organized this large and stunning, first U.S. survey, Juan Downey; the invisible architect, which is on view in the Bronx through June 10. If you are interested in video, video ... More » »
artblog Art Safaris – Episode 7 – Ronnie Bass at Marginal Utility
This almost 3-minute episode shows us watching and discussing the video works at Marginal Utility by Brooklyn artist Ronnie Bass. When puzzling out meaning, it’s often good to have multiple points of view, and we did. The scenes of a young man and woman chanting and playing drums, guitar and a saw seemed like music videos to some, and to others like an interesting puzzle to be
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