Curated a screening of work by filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek.
The program highlighted a selection of work produced in the late 1950s and early 60s, which were stylistically in the spirit of Surrealist and Dada collage.
VanDerBeek’s experiments were driven by a pragmatic political agenda that interrogated the often absurd and irrational correlations arising between popular culture, scientific advancement and mass media depictions of global conflict.
Tate Modern, London 2008
Commissioned four, three-minute films by artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson.
Playing the role of a modern-day vampire, actress Tilda Swinton interviewed band leader and cultural policy maker Gilberto Gil, scientist and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, lawyer and copyleft advocate Larry Lessig, as well as novelist and political activist Elena Poniatowska on notions of revolution, empowerment and technology.
The series examined how new and mass media mechanisms have generated change and how cultural and technological infrastructures shape the ability of individuals to have social and political impact.
Distributed via Tate Online 2008
Curated an exhibition of 1970s video art from the Netherlands Media Arts Institute collection.
Demonstrating artists’ use of direct address and instruction-based action, the exhibited artworks exemplified a particular moment in art history when the line between performance and televisual imagery began to blur. Each of the artists employed the use of task-orientated action filmed within a studio or domestic environment.
Artists: Joan Jonas, Nan Hoover, Vito Acconci, Allan Kaprow, Douglas Davies and Ulrike Rosenbach
Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam 2008