whitney biennial 2006 "day for night" march 2-may 28 NYC
http://whitney.org/www/exhibition/biennial_release.jsp
artists who will be involoved with this 3 month long exhibit include: Kenneth Anger, Miles Davis, Momus,Taylor Mead, Daniel Johnston, and Jim O’Rourke.
Momus will move anonymously through the galleries, at various times throughout the exhibition, in the form of an “Unreliable Tour Guide,” discussing the work on display.
group, Otabenga Jones & Associates, whose work involves actions, writings, and installations, was founded in 2002 in Houston, Texas. The group’s members are Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Jamal Cyrus, Kenya Evans, and Robert A. Pruitt, four African American artists, each of whom will be shown separately, as well as in the group they form together as Otabenga Jones & Associates. With its goal to highlight errors in the representation of African art, the group is named in honor of Ota Benga, an African pygmy brought to the United States in 1906 and exhibited in the Bronx Zoo.
a sense of dissatisfaction with the political status quo is articulated more outwardly in Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty, a large installation by Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, Rodney Graham, Laurent Berger, and the young Williamsburg band Japanther. This spectacular puppet show is presented here for the first time in its installation version, in which the 24-year-old rock singer Neill Sky is elected President of the United States after instigating teenage riots to change the voting age to 14 and putting LSD (ultimately standing for Let’s Stop Destruction) in the water of Congress.
An “Emergency Room” serves as an exhibition space for a number of politically-engaged artworks by Critical Art Ensemble, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Deep Dish Television, and Natalie Jeremijenko. The space will include a videotape by Critical Art Ensemble, an artists’ collective dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory. Also showing is work by Deep Dish Television (DDTV), the original alternative satellite network in America, co-founded by filmmaker and activist DeeDee Halleck. DDTV’s program collection Shocking and Awful (2004-2005) examines the latest violent and highly controversial actions in Iraq. With segments produced by over 100 independent filmmakers and activist organizations, the impassioned, on-the-ground viewpoint of these broadcasts shows the flipside of the Bush Administration’s “Shock and Awe” military tactics.
Francesco Vezzoli’s Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, which premiered this past summer at the Venice Biennale, creates a false trailer for a re-make of the notorious film depicting the decadent government of Roman Emperor Gaius Germanicus Caligula, who gave his horse political office and hosted scandalous orgies in the Imperial palace. Vezzoli’s film, an implicit critique of the decadence of Hollywood cinema and of the innate corruption of government, includes Helen Mirren, who also starred in the original film, as well as Gore Vidal, Courtney Love, Karen Black, Benicio Del Toro, and Michelle Phillips.
Adam McEwen’s Obituaries present celebrities’ fictional deaths, written up by McEwen, who was once a newspaper obituary writer, and printed on the pink paper identified with The Financial Times, playing on our macabre interest in death and fame.
Film legend Kenneth Anger is featured with a gallery installation that includes his most recent film, Mouse Heaven; a psychedelic poster for his earlier film Lucifer Rising; and a selection of photographs from his film Invocation of My Demon Brother, among other objects. Embodying the purest spirit of “underground” and subversion, Anger continues to exert an important influence on artists including several in the Biennial, such as Jutta Koether, Steven Parrino, and Anne Collier, among others.
The sound artist and composer Jim O’Rourke premieres his first video installation, Door (2005), a three-screen projection in which layers of sound build to form an environment of sound.
The exhibition also includes Kranky Klaus, a film installation by Cameron Jamie, in which villages in Central Austria await a visit from St. Nicholas’ nemesis, the mythical beast Krampus.
Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright’s This Land is Your Land, which some have compared to the hard-hitting work of Michael Moore, documents the state of democracy in America, addressing the overwhelming corporate influence on everyday life in the U.S. through the voices of people interviewed across the country.
a selection of the Studio Film Club’s program will be screened at the Whitney, including the film Day for Night that gave the exhibition its name. in homage to Kenneth Anger, a selection of Anger’s films will be screened.
Warhol film legend Taylor Mead, who will appear reading his poems, is also represented with a series of drawings depicting a naughty fairy tale, while Excavating Taylor Mead, documenting Mead’s life, will be screened as part of the film program. The poet, photographer, and filmmaker Ira Cohen will also read his poems, along with a special screening of his psychedelic film The Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda.
artists who will be involoved with this 3 month long exhibit include: Kenneth Anger, Miles Davis, Momus,Taylor Mead, Daniel Johnston, and Jim O’Rourke.
Momus will move anonymously through the galleries, at various times throughout the exhibition, in the form of an “Unreliable Tour Guide,” discussing the work on display.
group, Otabenga Jones & Associates, whose work involves actions, writings, and installations, was founded in 2002 in Houston, Texas. The group’s members are Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Jamal Cyrus, Kenya Evans, and Robert A. Pruitt, four African American artists, each of whom will be shown separately, as well as in the group they form together as Otabenga Jones & Associates. With its goal to highlight errors in the representation of African art, the group is named in honor of Ota Benga, an African pygmy brought to the United States in 1906 and exhibited in the Bronx Zoo.
a sense of dissatisfaction with the political status quo is articulated more outwardly in Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty, a large installation by Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, Rodney Graham, Laurent Berger, and the young Williamsburg band Japanther. This spectacular puppet show is presented here for the first time in its installation version, in which the 24-year-old rock singer Neill Sky is elected President of the United States after instigating teenage riots to change the voting age to 14 and putting LSD (ultimately standing for Let’s Stop Destruction) in the water of Congress.
An “Emergency Room” serves as an exhibition space for a number of politically-engaged artworks by Critical Art Ensemble, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Deep Dish Television, and Natalie Jeremijenko. The space will include a videotape by Critical Art Ensemble, an artists’ collective dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory. Also showing is work by Deep Dish Television (DDTV), the original alternative satellite network in America, co-founded by filmmaker and activist DeeDee Halleck. DDTV’s program collection Shocking and Awful (2004-2005) examines the latest violent and highly controversial actions in Iraq. With segments produced by over 100 independent filmmakers and activist organizations, the impassioned, on-the-ground viewpoint of these broadcasts shows the flipside of the Bush Administration’s “Shock and Awe” military tactics.
Francesco Vezzoli’s Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, which premiered this past summer at the Venice Biennale, creates a false trailer for a re-make of the notorious film depicting the decadent government of Roman Emperor Gaius Germanicus Caligula, who gave his horse political office and hosted scandalous orgies in the Imperial palace. Vezzoli’s film, an implicit critique of the decadence of Hollywood cinema and of the innate corruption of government, includes Helen Mirren, who also starred in the original film, as well as Gore Vidal, Courtney Love, Karen Black, Benicio Del Toro, and Michelle Phillips.
Adam McEwen’s Obituaries present celebrities’ fictional deaths, written up by McEwen, who was once a newspaper obituary writer, and printed on the pink paper identified with The Financial Times, playing on our macabre interest in death and fame.
Film legend Kenneth Anger is featured with a gallery installation that includes his most recent film, Mouse Heaven; a psychedelic poster for his earlier film Lucifer Rising; and a selection of photographs from his film Invocation of My Demon Brother, among other objects. Embodying the purest spirit of “underground” and subversion, Anger continues to exert an important influence on artists including several in the Biennial, such as Jutta Koether, Steven Parrino, and Anne Collier, among others.
The sound artist and composer Jim O’Rourke premieres his first video installation, Door (2005), a three-screen projection in which layers of sound build to form an environment of sound.
The exhibition also includes Kranky Klaus, a film installation by Cameron Jamie, in which villages in Central Austria await a visit from St. Nicholas’ nemesis, the mythical beast Krampus.
Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright’s This Land is Your Land, which some have compared to the hard-hitting work of Michael Moore, documents the state of democracy in America, addressing the overwhelming corporate influence on everyday life in the U.S. through the voices of people interviewed across the country.
a selection of the Studio Film Club’s program will be screened at the Whitney, including the film Day for Night that gave the exhibition its name. in homage to Kenneth Anger, a selection of Anger’s films will be screened.
Warhol film legend Taylor Mead, who will appear reading his poems, is also represented with a series of drawings depicting a naughty fairy tale, while Excavating Taylor Mead, documenting Mead’s life, will be screened as part of the film program. The poet, photographer, and filmmaker Ira Cohen will also read his poems, along with a special screening of his psychedelic film The Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda.