"Video<>Object" Exhibition
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
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Video<>Object explores the relationships between Video Art and narcissism; Hegarty cites Rosalind Kraus's essay as expressing the thought that gave rise to the present exhibition: "[Video's] real medium is a psychological situation, the very terms of which are to withdraw attention from an external object -an Other- and invest it in the Self." He further explains that the 'psychological situation' Kraus refers to is one of near pathology - narcissism as the characteristic condition of video art.
Yet, the artists in Video<>Object - Nancy Davidson, Yasue Maetake, Halsey Rodman, Jeanne Silverthorne, and Moira Williams - expand the defining narcissism of video art by reframing it. Narcissism, in a torqued return of the look, is scrutinized by these artists through oblique glances, fluidly drifting back and forth across the porous boundaries of Self and Other. They are engaged in a duel between the giddy pleasure in the self and the impossibility of saying "this is not me."
About the Curator: Originally from London, Laurence Hegarty has lived in New York for more than two decades. Though initially trained as an artist, Hegarty's interests have wandered over the years leading him to pursue film studies and psychoanalysis as partners in the conversation that shapes his writing, curatorial work and studio practice. Trained as a psychotherapist, Hegarty now maintains a private practice in New York City. Though the disciplines -studio art, writing, curating and psychoanalysis- are not integrated in any way, it is the overlaps and collisions between them that shape Hegarty's art- making, writing and curatorial practice.
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Schedule
from January 08, 2012 to March 08, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-01-08 from 14:00 to 17:00