paris coming to melbourne
In collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, ACMI brings to Melbourne next March Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005, an exhibition tracing the evolution of video art over four decades.
The exhibition features 20 works by 16 renowned video artists from around the globe, including some of the most important artists to have worked in the field: Isaac Julien (UK), Bill Viola (USA), Pierre Huyghe (France), Gary Hill (USA), Valie Export (Austria), Bruce Nauman (USA), and Jean-Luc Godard (France).
Curated by the Centre Pompidou's Curator of New Media, Christine Van Assche, the exhibition comprises installations, videotapes and related documents (including drawings and photographs) presented across four themes: Imaginative Television, Identity Issues, From Videotape to Installation, and Post-Cinema.
Initially used by artists as a tool to document their performances, video practices soon evolved into 'video-as-art', attracting the term 'new media' in the 1980s.
Video is now one of the most prevalent and dynamic mediums of contemporary art practice.
New media now encompasses experimental television techniques, closed-circuit surveillance technologies and re-workings of cinematic narratives. Interactive and web technologies have further expanded its repertoire.
Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005 presents a fascinating overview of video's expansion over the years, drawing on the video and multimedia works collected by the Musée National d'Art Moderne (MNAM) at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
The MNAM has been collecting artists' video installations and tapes since 1977, when most museums refused to consider it as an art form.
Prior to its journey to Melbourne, Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005 is showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney until February. The exhibition has already toured Barcelona, Taipei and Miami.
Published Thursday, 21 December 2006
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