Friday, 20 March 2009
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Monday, 9 March 2009
BM: I recently read, “The philosopher thinks about and knows his object, but he does not possess it, while a politician or a poet possesses his object, but does not know it.” I’d rather possess my object than know it, and so I make art.
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Curiel Singh Metinides Maguet Silver Khete Jingdong Raskin Kopp Kantor Morison Amrhein
Strutton Rose Katz Kevans Turk Goto McNulty Madrigal Gualdoni Callaghan Diaz Kusolwong
Heagle Cierpka Wright Bayne Hamilton Hammer O'Brien O'Connell Gamarra Valdés White
Eskinja Porter Cabrera Pereda Sudenburg Akiyoshi Man Harper Osttretsov Gögel José Galindo
Samadi Lazarus Melzl Mastrangelo Edmondson Eyres Halvorson Smith Olsen Gutov Manson
Schoele Gold Collis Strukelj Nemes Katayama Sigal Kahraman Plessas Davis Carlsen Fulton
Snyder
One video installations uses as its starting point a film that celebrates the work of a village museum. A second installation uses footage shot during the occupation, including an awkward sequence of occupying troops joining in a celebratory dance. Both these works reveal interest in exploring and subverting the narratives of propaganda.
A third installation looks at the operation of journalistic conventions, and the role of corporations and consumerism, in the ongoing conflicts. Combining footage and stills from amateur, government and media sources, this powerful work explores the ethics of reportage, the staging and manipulation of images, and the changing role of photojournalists in the era of consumer digital imaging.
The exhibition takes its title from a significant new project that makes its debut. Last year began the process of digitising the archives that he has amassed while making his works, so that the resultant data could be put online. The new work charts the creation of this digital resource - a process which, in the destruction of his physical archive, has brought interest in the flux of information and images to its natural conclusion.
Monday, 2 March 2009
Really
(HOUSEANDWORTH)