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ARTISTS
Francis Alys
David Claerbout
Douglas Gordon
Gary Hill
Pierre Huyghe
Joan Jonas
Isaac Julien
William Kentridge
Paul McCarthy
Pipilotti Rist
Anri Sala
About Francis Alys
As essayist Cuauhtémoc Medina puts it, "A desperate situation requires an absurd solution." On April 11, 2002, 500 volunteers (mostly students from the University of Lima) were supplied with shovels and asked to form a single line at the foot of a giant sand dune in Ventanilla, an area outside of Lima. This human comb moved the 1600-foot-long sand dune about four inches from its original position. When Faith Can Move Mountains attempts to translate social tensions into narratives that in turn intervene in the imaginary landscape of a place. Instead of following the classic model of an artist or exhibition catalogue, this book focuses on the conjunction between the social and historical conditions that the work appropriated, and the metaphoric analysis that the intervention put in motion. Through images (such as photos of the event and drawings for the project) and text (including letters and documents of the intervention) this publication, reminiscent of a science book, narrates the facts and concepts of the work.
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 When Faith Moves Mountains / Cuando La fe mueve montanas,
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About
the Gallery :
Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
February 27 - May 17, 2004
For over 30 years, video and film art have challenged many of the conventions of the art world. From questions of reproduction to issues surrounding acquisition, video and film art have grown from marginalized forms of artistic production to material for mainstream filmmaking and music video production. Point of View is an innovative commissioning and publishing project designed to make video and film art more accessible, and to fully utilize the qualities inherent to the medium.
The exhibition features works by eleven leading artists representing different generations and cultural perspectives: Francis Alys, David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist and Anri Sala.
Accompanying the exhibition is a boxed set containing eleven DVDs, each containing a newly-commissioned work; an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by either Dan Cameron, senior curator for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist of the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, or Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California; an image library of the artist’s previous work; and biographical material.
Producers: Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz Kretzschmar and Caroline Bourgeois), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Executive Producers: Jumex Collection, Mexico; Blink Digital, New York
Sponsor: The New Art Trust, San Francisco
Photo Credit: Isaac Julien Encore (Paridise Omeros: Redux) (details) 2003, from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
Images may not be reproduced in any form without the permission of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. |
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