Shrink2.demo4
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"Shrink" consists of three video projections synchronized with one musical soundtrack. The finished installation will have 12 sections per channel with a total running time of approximately 60 minutes. "Shrink" takes a structuralist visual approach related to Andy Warhol's film "Empire," or perhaps more similar to Chantal Ackermann's "News from Home." Each of the three simultaneous channels' video section is a continuous take depicting the same location at different times either before or after September 11, 2001. The full project loosely circumnavigates the Manhattan skyline from a slowly moving tourboat.
The video is overlaid with short texts; theoretical and anecdotal, from several authors. The text in the featured excerpt "Shrink2.demo4" is from an interview with artist Martha Rosler. As Rosler discusses the role of the artist, the
place of writing, text, and criticism within her artistic practice, and considers how her work may impact audiences, my use of her words suggests a
reflection on my influences and related methods and attitudes toward viewing and constructing work. The soundtrack for the project are songs by the Bavarian experimental pop group The Notwist, mostly from the CD "Shrink" (1998.) The songs freely mix tropes from rock, jazz, and electronica.
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Tony Cokes (their other films)
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Genre: Experimental |
| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2002 |
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Color Type: Color |
| Sound Type: Magnetic Stereo |
Length: 00:00:00 |
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Aspect Magazine
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Audio commentary by Bill Arning:
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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