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Wednesday, Mar 1, 1995
Inside & Outside: Video Art
As geometric surface, as mundane habitat, as site of social interaction, as sign of influence, as vector of urban turmoil, buildings and their surrounds give metaphorical access to all strata of city culture. In tonight's program, video artists work architecture from the inside out, exploring the engineered hauntings, the institutional legacies, the vertiginous volumes, even the virtualities of public space. From While You Were Out, Franklin Miller's seamless maze of hallways, to the dark psychology of MICA-TV's The In-Between, staged in Eisenman's Wexner Center; from the trespass into "public" overlooks in Scott Stark's Unauthorized Access to the collapsible high-rises in Van McElwee's Reconstructions, the social and aesthetic implications of cityscapes are revealed as subtle but potent influences on the lives of their inhabitants. These experimentally rich videoworks are recommended for anyone with an edifice complex.-Steve Seid Inside: While You Were Out (Franklin Miller, 1990, 5 mins, Color). The In-Between (MICA-TV, 1990, 12 mins, Color). People in Buildings (Doug Hall, 1991, 18 mins, Color/B&W). Unauthorized Access (Scott Stark, 1993, 30 mins, Color). Outside: Motion Pictures at English Bay (Tom Sherman, Jean Piche, 1990, 6 mins, Color). Cascade/Vertical Landscapes (MICA-TV, 1988, 7 mins, Color). Reconstructions (Van McElwee, 1992, 7 mins, Color). This Is a History of New York (Jem Cohen, 1988, 23 mins, B&W). Crossing the Street (Franklin Miller, 1994, 2 mins, Color).
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