Ron Amstutz "Right Roads and Wrong Ways"
Wallspace
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Right Roads and Wrong Ways is a video and photographic installation that represents the culmination of Amstutz's nearly decade-long project of constructing and painting life-size sets that exist as stages for his idiosyncratic performances.
Amstutz's work invokes different elements of experimental theater,
choreography and performance art, with influences as diverse and
far reaching as structural film, Bauhaus theater, performance work
of the 60's and 70's, videogames and commercial studio photography.
The video component of Right Roads and Wrong Ways exists as a summation of layered performances that engage the viewer in a maze-like web of dead-ends, obstacles and mental games. The actions take place in a series of 7 different sets, which were constructed and painted using a fixed camera angle or multiple fixed angles. This approach essentially turns the monitor or screen into a stage, and the camera angle into a theatrical sight line. After the actions are completed, the set is repainted and the performance or performances are repeated. The same logic is followed while documenting the performances photographically. A photograph is made, the set repainted and the photograph meticulously restaged. This restaging or repetition becomes, in essence, a performative act.
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Schedule
from September 05, 2008 to October 11, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-09-05 from 18:00 to 20:00