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CUT/Film as Found Object
November 13, 2004 – January 30, 2005
In this innovative installation of large-scale video projections artists
manipulate film and television in ways that make the familiar unfamiliar,
and provide the viewer the opportunity to experience a new reality.
Using excerpts from found and pre-existing footage, as well as sampling
and editing techniques indebted to the strategies of appropriation
which appeared in the art and music of the 1980s and 1990s, American
and international artists created new narratives, different emotional
content and new musical scores. The 14 works in the exhibition, each
housed in an independent theater or viewing room, incorporate a wide
range of variations and methodologies as they underscore the actions
through which artists create video.
“By choosing to use pre-existing film, these artists supplant the typical
authorial role of the Director with that of the Editor. They don’t
need to shoot the film for they understand that the editing and shaping
of what may already exist in the world is a more powerful and revealing
act,” explains the exhibition’s curator, Stefano Basilico of the Milwaukee
Art Museum.
The exhibition includes works by Candice Breitz, Christian Marclay,
Pierrre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Paul Pfeiffer,
Omer Fast, and Michael Joaquin Grey. Among them are Christian Marclay’s
Video Quartet, a 16-mm symphony on four contiguous, ten-foot screens
that astounds the senses with its hundreds of sampled Hollywood movies;
Omer Fast’s CNN Concatenated, in which the artist takes single words
and images of CNN talking heads and arranges them so that “the news
they deliver is the news he wants them to deliver,” and Douglas Gordon’s
24 Hour Psycho, that uses the distortion of time and elimination of
soundtrack to transform Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, from
a film with a one-hour and 45 minute playing time into a suspenseful
24-hour experience.
CUT/Film as Found Object is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum with
the assistance of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. The
exhibition is curated by Stefano Basilico, adjunct curator of contemporary
art, Milwaukee Art Museum.
The exhibition at MOCA is sponsored by: the Private Bank of Bank of America and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with additional support from Joan
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Michael Salke and the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council.
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