ONLINE: Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video: Chapter Three
Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video employs the innate immediacy of time-based art to spark reflection on the here and now. Looking to the late 1960s鈥攁 historical moment marked by deep uncertainty, social unrest, and radical transformation鈥攖his online exhibition loosely adopts famed psychologist and countercultural icon Timothy Leary鈥檚 mantra 鈥渢urn on, tune in, drop out鈥� as a guide for negotiating our present moment.
The third chapter presents five films and videos by artists who adopt experimental approaches to explore the unique potential of their respective mediums.
In 鈥淭urn On,鈥� William Forsythe and Steven Parrino use unconventional means to generate awareness of their immediate environments. In Alignigung II (2017), Forsythe treats the intertwined bodies of his two performers as tools for exploring the limits of the self and other. In Guitar Grind (1995), Parrino 鈥渢urns on鈥� to the possibility of using the bass guitar and amplifier atypically, whether as a 鈥渂ow鈥� for a guitar or an apparatus to generate feedback noise, respectively.
The two works included in the 鈥淭une In鈥� section represent divergent approaches to complicating mass-media conventions. In his commercial for fashion brand Jun Rop茅 in 1973, Richard Avedon presents an exploration of the social performance of gender identity that deviates from the typical content found in the television advertisement genre at the time. In Hiker (2003), Sterling Ruby deploys various horror film techniques鈥攕uch as a lurking camera perspective and evocative sound design鈥攊n a short video of a female trekker ascending a mountain, casting a sinister pall over the otherwise innocuous visual content.
Representing the curatorial category of 鈥淒rop Out,鈥� Man Ray鈥檚 film Emak Bakia (1926) exemplifies the visionary techniques and oneiric imagery that characterize the early twentieth-century avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism, which sought to awaken contemporary society to alternative possible realities no longer beholden to rational thought.
Each chapter of Broadcast will introduce a new set of films and videos on Tuesdays. The next chapter will debut on July 21.
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Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video employs the innate immediacy of time-based art to spark reflection on the here and now. Looking to the late 1960s鈥攁 historical moment marked by deep uncertainty, social unrest, and radical transformation鈥攖his online exhibition loosely adopts famed psychologist and countercultural icon Timothy Leary鈥檚 mantra 鈥渢urn on, tune in, drop out鈥� as a guide for negotiating our present moment.
The third chapter presents five films and videos by artists who adopt experimental approaches to explore the unique potential of their respective mediums.
In 鈥淭urn On,鈥� William Forsythe and Steven Parrino use unconventional means to generate awareness of their immediate environments. In Alignigung II (2017), Forsythe treats the intertwined bodies of his two performers as tools for exploring the limits of the self and other. In Guitar Grind (1995), Parrino 鈥渢urns on鈥� to the possibility of using the bass guitar and amplifier atypically, whether as a 鈥渂ow鈥� for a guitar or an apparatus to generate feedback noise, respectively.
The two works included in the 鈥淭une In鈥� section represent divergent approaches to complicating mass-media conventions. In his commercial for fashion brand Jun Rop茅 in 1973, Richard Avedon presents an exploration of the social performance of gender identity that deviates from the typical content found in the television advertisement genre at the time. In Hiker (2003), Sterling Ruby deploys various horror film techniques鈥攕uch as a lurking camera perspective and evocative sound design鈥攊n a short video of a female trekker ascending a mountain, casting a sinister pall over the otherwise innocuous visual content.
Representing the curatorial category of 鈥淒rop Out,鈥� Man Ray鈥檚 film Emak Bakia (1926) exemplifies the visionary techniques and oneiric imagery that characterize the early twentieth-century avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism, which sought to awaken contemporary society to alternative possible realities no longer beholden to rational thought.
Each chapter of Broadcast will introduce a new set of films and videos on Tuesdays. The next chapter will debut on July 21.
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