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As our lives have moved online to an unprecedented degree during the COVID-19 pandemic, and as social movements are ignited by video footage from smartphones and bodycams, we’ve been giving a lot of thought to artists who’ve worked with the electronic image, many for decades.
This program of seven videos from MoMA’s collection considers how artists have responded to the invasion of the camera into intimate spaces of work and life, spanning early experiments from the 1970s to the present. Their work asks profound questions about who we are when we’re on camera, and what it means to make work in isolation through a medium that can be made instantly public. Today, when many of us are communicating on camera from our living rooms and bedrooms as we consider the social fabric and media structures that unite and divide us, the questions posed by these artists seem more vital and relevant than ever.
I am delighted and grateful that Joan Jonas has agreed to join me for a live Q&A tonight at 8:00 p.m. EDT, to reflect on 50 years of working with video, and share her long view on the medium’s history, and its potential to radically reshape the future.
Stuart Comer The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance
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Live Q&A Tonight |
Thu, Jul 2, 8:00 p.m. |
Join artist Joan Jonas and curator Stuart Comer for a talk about how video has shaped the present and can reshape the future. |
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Seven Video Works |
See works from MoMA’s collection by Sadie Benning, Petra Cortright, Camille Henrot, Mako Idemitsu, Joan Jonas, Letícia Parente, and Martine Syms. |
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Images from top: Martine Syms. Lessons I-CLXXX. 2014–18. 180 videos (color, sound). 90 min. (30 sec. each). Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2020 Martine Sym; Joan Jonas. Vertical Roll. 1972. Video (black and white, sound), 19:38 min. Acquired through the generosity of Barbara Pine. © 2020 Joan Jonas. Image courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York; Still from MoMA Video Introducing Virtual Views: Video Lives; Camille Henrot. Grosse Fatigue. 2013. Video (color, sound). 13 min. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2020 ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy the artist, Silex Films, and Kamel Mennour, Paris; |
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