Heidrun Holzfeind uses photography,
documentary video and sculpture to explore individual and collective narratives that reveal the concept of identity as a social construct dependent on cultural and socio - economical circumstances.
Not exact matches
Illustrated with performance, private
videos,
and recollections from those who knew him, this detailed
and innovative
documentary looks at the life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits
and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later assemblages, installations, kinetic
and static
sculptures,
and scientific models.
PEET's work — whether painting,
sculpture, drawing,
video, or performance — actively engages with the social
and political realities of our time
and fluctuates between
documentary and subjective approaches.
Here, he is represented by cybernetic drawings,
documentary photographs
and a
video that shows him making an inflatable plastic
sculpture with his students.
This exhibition proposes to examine a different nexus of
video and sculpture, one in which the making
and / or history of the object is intimately connected to the
video, as
documentary or commentary.
From as early as the 1980s, photography
and video art have found their place in the German Pavilion, side by side with painting,
sculpture and installation: the works of Bernd
and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, Katharina Sieverding
and Rosemarie Trockel — all of them protagonists in the vibrant art scene at the Düsseldorfer Akademie in the late 20th century — were followed by the actions
and films of Christoph Schlingensief
and Romuald Karmakar, along with the
documentary approaches of the Indian artist Dayanita Singh
and the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng.
Her installations, performances,
sculptures and videos move fluidly between
documentary and fiction.
McClodden's interdisciplinary approach encompasses
documentary film, experimental
video,
sculpture,
and sound installations.
Wu Tsang's installations, performances,
sculptures,
and videos move fluidly among
documentary, activism,
and fiction.
The installation includes novel ways to display poetry
and to hear it read; inventive circular islands with
video monitors;
and steel moiré structures peppered with
documentary material that are impressive
sculptures in their own right.
Featuring works of various media — painting,
sculpture, photography, drawings,
and graphic design, as well as
video and documentary film — the exhibition offers a story of artistic crossings, collaborations,
and, at times, conflicts, with the city as an incubator.
This year's CURRENTS festival exhibitions showcased single channel
video,
video and sound installation, interactive new media, animation, computer / software modulated
sculpture, multimedia performance, experimental
and interactive
documentary video, Digital Dome projection, art gaming, web art, workshops
and panel discussions.
Through photography,
video,
and sculpture, they present an aesthetically rich installation that questions boundaries between art
and religion, aesthetic
and documentary practice,
and folk
and fine art.
Grasso's work incorporates
video,
sculpture, painting, drawing
and exhibition devices, combining
documentary, historical
and mythological sources as long as they hold aesthetic
and fictional potential.
A native New Yorker, Jonathan Calm is a visual artist working in photography
and video whose work combines as well as challenges the aesthetic
and ideological tenets of architecture,
documentary journalism,
and sculpture.
Salvatore Arancio's practice, encompassing ceramic
and sculpture, photo - etching, collage,
video and animation, re-appropriates found images, taking inspiration in 19th century books, geologists» drawings, natural history museums collections, botanical gardens,
documentaries and Internet found footage.
The artworks range from
sculpture and performance to
video installation, plus an extensive
video screening programme featuring shorts
and experimental
documentaries by over 14 artists, including works never before seen in Europe.
In 2016, a
video documentary came out, showing times when Burden was risking his life, but also times when his work evolved
and became
sculpture and installation - oriented.
Materials in the exhibition vary from hand - painted ceramic
sculptures,
documentary drawings,
and frame - by - frame erasures of
video images, all intricate material processes that consider found natural
and synthetic objects as markers of larger metaphysical questions.