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From: Jenny Marketou <[email protected]>
Date: Oct 24, 2005 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Balance and Power:Surveillance and Performance in Video Art
To: Marisa Olson <[email protected]>
Dear Marisa,
I thought you would like to know about to my large
scale video installation project : 99 Red Balloons:
Be Careful Who Sees You When You Dream,2005 which
was commissioned for the show Balance and
Power:Performance and Surveillance in Video Art
curated by Michael Rush at Krannert Art Museum,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The
Exhibition will be up from October 22, 2005 through
January 1, 2006
The exhibition comprises works by
Vito Acconci;Antenna; Jim Campbell; Peter Campus;
Jordan Crandall; Sophie Calle; Steve Mann; Jenny
Marketou; Jonas Mekas; Muntadas;Julia Scher; Bruce
Nauman; Paul
Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar;Subodh Gupta; Harun
Farocki; Kristin Lucas; Tiffany Holmes; Kiki Seror;
Martha Rosler; Jill Magid; Tim Hyde; Andy Warhol.
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in
Video Art is a particularly timely exhibition for a
world preoccupied with security and fearful of
international terrorism. Curated by Michael Rush for
Krannert Art Museum, this exhibition examines both the
early days of video art and current practices in an
attempt to understand the complex relationship between
voluntary acting for the camera and involuntary taping
by a camera on the part of power systems that have an
interest in the movement of citizens. The
award-winning, New York-based design firm, Antenna,
has created an innovative, sculptural environment for
the exhibition.
Balance and Power is guest curated for Krannert Art
Museum by Michael Rush, a curator, writer, critic, and
former director of the Palm Beach Institute of
Contemporary Art (2000-2004). Rush is the author of
three books from Thames and Hudson, London: Video Art,
2004, the first major survey of the field in more than
twenty years; New Media in Art, published in May,
2005, which is a fully revised version of his
best-selling New Media in Late 20th -Century Art1999.
He has been a regular contributor to The NewYork
Times, Art in America, artnet and several other
publications.
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