Dear ARLIS List Members,

 

This is an email to inform you of a DVD anthology of video art available from the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. "Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image" features recently commissioned pieces by 11 renown video artists: Francis Alys, David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist and Anri Sala. Each work is accompanied by an interview with the artist by either Dan Cameron (senior curator at the new Museum of Contemporary Art), Hans Ulrich Obrist (curator of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris) or Richard Meyer (Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California). An image library of each artist's previous work and biographical material are also included. This all region DVD is already in collections worldwide- TATE London, Guggenheim Bilbao, Stanford University, Rhode Island School of Design, UCLA Hammer Museum, Walker Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, NY, CalArts, Universitat Trier, Germany, University of California, Berkeley, and Massey University, Australia. The DVD is quickly becoming standard in video art curriculums and is an essential addition to any art library.

 

For clips of the works on the DVD, please visit:

http://www.newmuseum.org/now_pov_clips.php <http://www.newmuseum.org/now_pov_clips.php> 

 

I have also enclosed in the body of this email further material about the DVD.

 

Thank you for your time. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

 

Sincerely,

 

Ceci Moss

 

Point of View Sales Director

New Museum of Contemporary Art

210 11th Avenue 2nd Floor

New York, NY  10001

tel. 212-219-1288 ex. 211

fax. 212-431-5328

email. [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 

 

 



• Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image



Point of View, produced by Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz Kretzschmar and Caroline Bourgeois) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, was conceived to make accessable the work of some of the most important artists working in video, film, and digital imagery today. Point of View is the first commercially available anthology of its kind, serving as a point of entry to these new works, and as an ongoing resource for museums, universities, and art schools around the world.



The Anthology consists of a boxed set of eleven all region DVD’s, each containing a newly-commissioned work; an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by either Dan Cameron, senior curator at large at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist of the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, or Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California; an image library of the artist’s previous work; and biographical material. The initial print run is 1500 and will be available through the New Museum store and website, www.newmuseum.org <http://www.newmuseum.org/> . 



Generous Funding for Point of View has been provided by the Executive Directors: Jumex Collection, Mexico, and Blink Digital, New York, and Sponsor: The New Art Trust, San Francisco.



Point of View Project Descriptions:



Francis Alys, El Gringo (2003)



Running time: 4 minutes 12 seconds



In El Gringo, viewers experience the discomfort of being an outsider when the camera is confronted by a pack of snarling dogs. 



David Claerbout, Le Moment (2003)



Running time: 2 minutes 44 seconds



Claerbout uses cinematic techniques to create a suspenseful journey through a dimly lit forest that reaches an unexpected conclusion. 



Douglas Gordon, Over My Shoulder (2003) 



Running time: 13 minutes 48 seconds



In this simple head-on shot, Gordon uses hand gesticulations against a white sheet to communicate violent and sensual emotions. 



Gary Hill, Blind Spot (2003)



Running time: 12 minutes 27 seconds



A brief encounter in the street with a man in a southern French city that has a large North African population is slowed down, forcing the viewer into an intimate relationship with the subject and the shifting emotions in his face. 



Pierre Huyghe, .05 (2003) 



Running time: 5 minutes



Huyghe’s conceptual film references Andy Warhol’s Empire State and pays homage to Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters by incorporating the Devil’s Tower monument made famous in the film. Huyghe splits the screen in half, creating a mood of suspense, as we wait for a correction that never takes place. 



Joan Jonas, Waltz (2003) 



Running time: 6 minutes 24 seconds



Jonas’s performance piece, an homage to 18th century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology into its narrative alongside spontaneously occurring events.



Isaac Julien, Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux) (2003)



Running time: 4 minutes 38 seconds



The stunning, color-saturated images that make up this work refer to the African Diaspora and the quest to find roots in a New World. 



William Kentridge, Automatic Writing (2003) 



Running time: 2 minutes 38 seconds



Kentridge’s hauntingly beautiful series of animated black and white drawings brings viewers into the artist’s unconscious, using surrealist techniques to explore the point where writing and drawing intersect. 



Paul McCarthy, WGG (Wild Gone Girls) (2003) 



Running time: 5 minutes 20 seconds



Depicting a sailing party gone wrong, McCarthy questions the effects that violence and mutilation, both real and simulated, have on the viewer in contemporary culture. 



Pipilotti Rist, I Want to See How You See (2003) 



Running time: 4 minutes 48 seconds



Rist explores the macrocosm of humanity in a video, art and music collaboration. A lyrical tale of a witch’s coven is played over images of a person where each body part symbolically represents an area of the world.



Anri Sala, Time After Time (2003)



Running time: 5 minutes 22 seconds



The details in Sala’s oblique and barely moving frame stimulates the viewers’ visual and auditory capacity by forcing them to concentrate on a single puzzling image until its essence is revealed in an unexpected flash of light.



 



About the New Museum of Contemporary Art



The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977, is the only museum in New York City dedicated exclusively to contemporary art and shows the best art from around the world. Over the last five years, the Museum has exhibited artists from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom among others. The Museum has also mounted ambitious surveys of important but under-recognized artists such as Ana Mendieta, William Kentridge, David Wojnorowicz, and Paul McCarthy. The Museum’s Zenith Media Lounge, launched in November 2000, is the only museum space in New York City devoted to presenting new media art. 



In Spring 2005, the New Museum will break ground on a new home at 235 Bowery at Prince Street. This 60,000 square foot facility, designed by the Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA, will greatly expand the Museum’s exhibitions and programs, and will be the first art museum constructed in Downtown New York’s modern history. For the most up to date information, visit www.newmuseum.org <http://www.newmuseum.org/> .