Thirty Years Dutch Video Art

Thirty Years Dutch Video Art
January 11 - March 8 2003
Opening January 10, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

From January 11 through March 8 the Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Montevideo/Time Based Arts is presenting a survey of video art from 1970 to
2000. In eight weeks a selection of more than 60 video works and eight
installations will be shown. Particularly the construction of the
installations is unique, as many of the installations selected are known
only from visual records or descriptions. By reconstructing them they can
again be shown to the public and be described and recorded in a proper
manner for the future. Among the installations to be set up anew are those
by Servaas, Ginny Vos, Elsa Stansfield en Madelon Hooykaas and Miguel-Angel
Cardenas.

All of the works selected will be subdivided into one of four central themes
within video art: mass communication, registration, medium-specific and
narrative. At various points works will be removed and new works installed.
This exchange will make shifts within the oeuvre of particular artists and
currents visible - and make it possible to exhibit more works. In a special
information space it will be possible for the public to view on monitor all
the works that will be shown during the eight weeks.

Mass communication
Utilizing video for its possibilities for making television oneself or to
parody or comment on television - is central. In this theme work by Wim T
Schippers, Marinus Boezem, Jaap Drupsteen, Moniek Toebosch and others will
be presented.

Registration
The use of video to record an act or process, with works by Marina
Abramovic, Ben D