"Quartzo Video" with assume vivid astro focus installation
MATERIALIZED: NEW AMERICAN VIDEO AND...
DATO: 10th of October - 7th of November
ÅPNING: Opens on Friday 10th of October 8pm
KUNSTNERE: avaf, Jim Drain, Ben Jones, Terence Koh, Takeshi Murata, Ara Peterson, Kembra Pfahler, Dash Snow og Dan Colen
This years BergArt festival has decided to focus on the New York art scene. This will be demonstrated in Bergen Kunsthall by a visually explosive exhibition with a number of central artists from the American East Coast - primarily connected to New York´s Downtown.
Curator: Kathy Grayson
"Kathy Grayson has chosen to concentrate on, what she currently feels are, the most interesting tendencies in video based art in New York. This will not, however, be a traditional video exhibition with TV-monitors and wall projections. All the works in the exhibition include videos connected to other media and materials, or “video in the third dimension”: Videos which for their part are transformed into sculpture, videos as part of performance works, videos in combination with painting and neon or kaleidoscopic installations.
Some of the best new video art is not made by video artists. The art scene from which these artists have emerged is characterised by a marked spirit of community between like minded artists. Co-operation, network building and a mutual exchange of ideas and approaches distinguish the environment – which in the media, and to all appearances, is often presented primarily as a party and drug milieu. The flamboyant aesthetic reflects the lifestyle. There is, however, an extremely dedicated approach to the production of art underlying the activities of these artists. Perhaps sincerity is the most adequate characteristic. Far removed from everything that concerns itself with conceptual distance, irony, meta-art and objective reflection, these artworks display a unique energy and a genuine wish to communicate without what has become the art world’s obligatory filter of critical theory and reflection.
A further common feature is a form of anti-professionalism. The artists have a mixed background from DIY art, graffiti, music and programming. The use of cheap equipment and found materials is not only about aesthetic choice but also about making use of what is a natural part of the surroundings one lives in. This is also mirrored in the video based works in this exhibition, where artists have helped themselves to existing technological possibilities and looked for new, unexpected or “wrong” ways to use them."
http://www.kunsthall.no/kunsthall/index.php?id=31
BERGEN KUNSTHALL / BERGENS KUNSTFORENING
Rasmus Meyers allé 5, N-5015 Bergen, Norway
