"Speed of Vision: on the construction and perception of time in video art"
2000-06-18 until 2000-09-06
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Ridgefield, CT, USA

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present SPEED OF VISION, a highly innovative exhibition composed of single-channel videotapes and mixed-media installations. This exhibition explores how the video medium can manipulate and influence the viewers’ sense of time, inviting visitors to assume the role of sci-fi time travelers and encouraging them to forge individual paths through the various installations. The galleries are divided into three distinct time zones of slow motion, real time, and hyper-speed.

Like other art forms that rely on time as a main medium – theater, dance, performance – these video works simulate real-life experiences. As a result, the exhibition fosters emotional and psychological responses that compel visitors to question their bearings and reexamine their understanding of reality.

Curated by Matthew Yokobosky, exhibition designer at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and independent curator, this exhibition provides a complex environment of overlapping sounds and juxtaposed images. Included in the exhibition design is a video compilation which explores the relationship between man’s ambition to travel fast and his simultaneous desire to record that accomplishment. The compilation highlights documentary scenes of space travel in contrast to Hollywood film excerpts.

Eleven ambitious and sophisticated works are featured in SPEED OF VISION, each requiring the viewer to reexamine the paradoxical conception of time as both a real and artificial construction. The following artists are represented, all of whom challenge the way the passage of time is perceived by exploiting editing and filming techniques to their fullest: Doug Aitken, Jonas Åkerlund, Charles Atlas, Jessica Bronson, Eiko & Koma, Annika Eriksson, Tom Kalin, Matthew McCaslin, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Nam June Paik, and Kathy Rose. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition will feature a specially commissioned project by photographer Judy Linn.

IMAGE
Kathy Rose
Performance View
Photo: Miguel Villalobos

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