"Project 35" Exhibition

Pratt Manhattan Gallery

poster for "Project 35" Exhibition

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Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents "Project 35," an exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators in commemoration of exhibition producer Independent Curators International's (ICI) 35th year from June 17 through July 30, 2011. Each of the curators was invited to select one artist's video that they think is important for contemporary art audiences across the globe. The exhibition will be celebrated with an opening reception on Thursday, June 16 from 6-8 PM and is free and open to the public. Pratt Manhattan Gallery is located at 144 West 14th Street, Second Floor.

"Project 35" will showcase a new exhibition concept for ICI, with an eclectic compilation of works that reveal the global reach that video has achieved as a contemporary art medium. The exhibition will include 35 videos on 16 screens that reveal the diversity of approaches artists are now taking to the medium. The artists featured use various animations techniques and borrow from the language of cinema, performance, and YouTube to produce work that weaves between documentary and fiction. The subject matter ranges from reinterpretations of philosophical propositions to uprisings and protests in South Africa, propaganda news broadcasts in China, and emerging youth culture in Ho Chi Minh City.

"Project 35" is a traveling exhibition produced and circulated by ICI, New York. The exhibition recalls the founding initiatives of ICI and the organization's first exhibition - a video art survey of that featured work by pioneers in their field that toured internationally.With Project 35, ICI further draws from its extensive international network of curators formed over the past 35 years to organize a new exhibition of international video art, and support new collaborations between curators, artists and exhibitions spaces on national and international platforms.

Artists and curators include Vyacheslav Akhunov (selected by Viktor Misiano), Meris Angioletti (selected by Francesco Manacorda), Alexander Apóstol (selected by Ruth Auerbach), Vartan Avakian (selected by Jack Persekian), Azorro Group - Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojciech Niedzielko and Lukas Skapski (selected by Sergio Edelsztein), Sammy Baloji (selected by Bisi Silva), Yason Banal (selected by Joselina Cruz), Guy Ben-Ner (selected by Mai Abu ElDahab), Manon de Boer (selected by Lars Bang Larsen), Andrea Büttner (selected by Chus Martinez), Robert Cauble (selected by Raimundas Malasauskas), Chen Chieh-jen (selected by Amy Cheng), Chto delat - What is to be done? (selected by WHW), Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain (selected by Ana Paula Cohen), Kota Ezawa (selected by Constance Lewallen), Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys (selected by Anthony Huberman), Tamar Guimarães (selected by Julieta Gonzalez), Dan Halter (selected by Kathryn Smith), Ranbir Kaleka (selected by Deeksha Nath), Beryl Korot (selected by Susan Sollins), Nestor Kruger (selected by David Moos), Daniela Paes Leao (selected by Yane Calovski), Anja Medved (selected by Charles Esche),Tracey Moffatt with Gary Hillberg (selected by Alexie Glass-Kantor), The Propeller Group (selected by Zoe Butt), Ho Tzu Nyen (selected by Weng Choy Lee), Elodie Pong (selected by Mirjam Varadinis), Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (selected by Franklin Sirmans), Tracey Rose (selected by Simon Njami), Edwin Sánchez (selected by José Roca), Michael Stevenson (selected by Magali Arriola), Stephen Sutcliffe (selected by Hans Ulrich Obrist), Yukihiro Taguchi (selected by Mami Kataoka), Ulla Von Brandenburg (selected by Lauri Firstenberg), Zhou Xiaohu (selected by Lu Jie).

[Image: Kota Ezawa "Lennon Sontag Beuys (still)" (2004), Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco.]

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