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: Volta (with Badeira), 2003 by Stephen Dean. It’s a single channel video transferred to DVD, of an installation with fabric enclosure, looping 8 minutes 52 seconds with sound. Fabric swaths create an immersive enclosure for footage of chanting, pulsating crowds, smoke bombs and sirens at a Brazilian football match.
