"Rites of Return" Exhibition
Light Industry
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This evening features three artists whose work is linked by its situation on the ever-shifting border between documentary investigation, aesthetic contemplation, and critical play. Formed by travels in war-torn and storm-ravaged sites beyond the ken of CNN, the film, video, and visual art of Liza Johnson, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, and Michael Rakowitz offers a compelling vision of contemporary history between dreamworld and catastrophe. The recent and in-progress work presented tonight retrieves real and imagined artifacts from these ruins, creating, in the process, gestural and memorial ruins of another kind. And they testify to the enduing power, in a secular age, of the rituals of “believing and making people believe,” a power that haunts and inspires the work of documentary art in the age of mechanical destruction.
To be followed by a discussion with the artists and Jonathan Kahana.
Media
Schedule
February 15, 2009 from 19:30