Irrigation
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing on the sea-shore, diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton
Like Newton, I play. I use a variety of materials in the search for that smoother pebble, with the hope that the process or product will have some truth to it, a point of inspiration or moment of contemplation for the viewer.
Play embraces ways of seeing, doing and being that are easily lost in our fast-paced world. I strive for an openness or awakening in attitude and approach to the world around me. My goal is to bring this approach to my artwork and, through the work, to transfer it to the viewer.
Irrigation focuses on the creation of new and merging forms and lines. It alters reality to help us focus on reality. The sound serves to disturb the environment as the mirrors disturb the image.
For me, Irrigation represents the disjunction between watering and the desert environment of the southwest. It also recalls the pleasure of performing this simple, solitary task.
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Peter Tucker (their other films)
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| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2002 |
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Color Type: Color |
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Length: 00:07:19 |
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Aspect Magazine
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COMMENTATOR BIOGRAPHY:
Bill Arning is according to Boston Magazine's 2002 “Best of” issue, the best Curator in greater Boston! He is internationally known as a spirited curator, critic, essayist and educator in contemporary art and culture. Since joining the List Visual Arts Center in 2000 he has organized such critically acclaimed exhibitions as "Inside Space – Experiments in Redefining Rooms", February 2001, and "AA Bronson's Mirror Mirror", 2002, an artistic response to AIDS today, encompassing issues of post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor guilt. "Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude" opening in May, 2003 explores the concept and role of influence in the construction of art history and in the production of new culture. Arning was the chief curator at White Columns Alternative Arts Space, New York, from 1985-1996, where he organized the first New York exhibitions for many significant American and international artists of the period.
As a writer on art and culture, Arning's essays have been published in Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Art in America, World Art, Trans, Polliester, Bomb, and Honcho magazines and various catalogues for museums, alternative spaces and commercial galleries around the world. Recent essays include “Brief Encounter on the Piers” in Tony Feher, Bard College Museum and “The Sleazy Allure of Chris Burden” for Henrik Olesen – Sexuelle Zwischenstadien, Fabricious Projects, Copenhagen. His article Elaine Reichek's Rewoven Histories, was included in the Phaidon Book anthology Art and Feminism, in 2001. His essay “Everybody's Gay, (If Kurt Cobain said it, it must be true)” was published in Semiotexte anthology Imported: a Reading Seminar, ed. Rainer Gahnal. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, N.Y.U. Graduate School of the Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design. Since arriving in Boston Arning is a frequent invited visitor to both The School of the Museum of fine Arts and The Massachusetts College of Art, as well as many other area schools.
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This film has never been screened
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