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WEEK EIGHT:
KYLE GOEN
(VIDEOBOX): Ernest Larsen + Sherry Millner
AUGUST 24th -AUGUST 28th
Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 25th 6-8 pm
Curated by John Hanhardt, Senior Curator of Film and Video, Guggenheim
Museum
"White Box's Fifth
annual Six Feet Under, "Make Nice", project happens at a time when the
increasing violence enacted by the United States on the stage of international
politics is echoed in the power exercised by federal and local governments
to curtail civil liberties. The video artists Sherry Millner and Ernest
Larsen and visual artist Kyle Goen reflect on the images and signs of
state power and public protest. Kyle Goen's graphic depiction of George
Bush in his "Elect a Madman" project reminds us that the Republican administration
in Washington embodies this country's domestic and global arrogance of
power. Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen's digital video essay "41 Shots"
vividly represents the violence of racism and police power as it focuses
on the police shooting of the West Indian street vendor Amadou Diallo
in the vestibule of his building. A coda brings us up to date on ex-Mayor
Guiliani's current activities as he markets his policies for policing
cities as a global consultant on controlling urban crime. "
- John G. Hanhardt
Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts Guggenheim Museum
Kyle Goen's "Elect a Madman You Get Madness" image was created in
January
2001 in response to the 2000 election. The image was initially
produced as
a protest sticker. Over the past three years, he has developed this
project
by reproducing the image on t-shirts, posters, stretched canvasses,
patches, and pins and mass distributing (mostly for free or letting the buyer set the
price) at major anti-war rallies in New York, Washington DC and in San
Francisco. The text is a phrase borrowed from Alice Walkerās 1989
novel "The
Temple of My Familiar".
(VIDEOBOX)
Sherry Millner + Ernest Larsen Sherry Millner has been producing films,
videotapes, and photomontages since the mid-1970s. Her tapes are remarkable
for their mixture of humor, analysis, and personal insight. Embracing
a wide range of issues in her work, from the mundane to the political,
Millner portrays an acute sense of the sublime and the ridiculousa necessary
virtue when tackling U.S. foreign policy. In addition to his work in video.
Ernest Larsen is a fiction writer and media critic. His criticism has
been published in The Nation, Art in America, The Village Voice, Art Journal,
The Independent, Exposure, Transition, and Jump Cut; and his essays have
appeared in a number of anthologies. His collaborative video projects
with Sherry Millner have been exhibited and have won awards at major festivals
throughout the world (London, Sydney, Berlin, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Amsterdam,
Dallas, Los Angeles, etc.) including two Whitney Biennials.
- John G. Hanhardt Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts Guggenheim Museum