Video from the True Collection Sept. 11-Oct. 6, Bruce/Floyd Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.
The history of video art is resplendent with examples of popular culture’s impact on the genre. Artists have reframed content from television, the internet, and other sources of media into broadcasts of their own creative contributions. Elsewhere, artists have looked to forms of live entertainment as sites of mass-appeal and spectacle, navigating the interplay of individualism and collectivism. Artists Stephen Dean, Takeshi Murata, and Anri Sala each touch on cultural gathering points—in the forms of popular media and public entertainment—as places of group consciousness.
Join us for this month’s projection: Mixed Behavior, 2003 by Anri Sala. It’s a digital color video, looping 8 minutes 17 seconds with sound. A DJ, working on a rooftop during a rainstorm, appears to respond to—or even control—the chaotic fireworks exploding around him as part of the celebration on the New Year in Tirana, Albania.
