Part III of Project 35 on view at Saint Joseph College Art Gallery
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Single-channel color video with sound, 7 mins.
Courtesy
the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
Part III of Project 35 is currently on view at the Saint Joseph College Art Gallery. Videos may be seen at the gallery through October 24. In addition, an evening screening of all nine videos will take place on Wednesday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m., accompanied by light refreshments.
An exhibition of single-channel video works selected by 35 international curators, each of whom has chosen a single work, Project 35 demonstrates the global reach that video has achieved as a medium of contemporary art. Saint Joseph College Art Gallery is among the first to host Project 35 in its entirety, concluding with the final installment from October 26, 2010 through January 23, 2011.
The nine video works in Part III of Project 35 continue the stimulating variety seen in the previous two installments. For example, in The Other, Tracey Moffat creates a provocative montage of images from popular culture, exploring issues of identity, gender, race and “the longing for escape from social restraint.” Pioneer video artist Beryl Korot creates a hauntingly abstract visual sequence from the words of Florence Nightingale cascading across a backdrop woven from video footage of snowstorms and waterfalls. Anja Medved’s Smuggler’s Confessionary captures the personal import of a border crossing, gathering memories and images of the divided city of Nova Gorica, which was split in two by the post-1945 border settlement between Italy and what was then Yugoslavia (now Slovenia). For more details, including a complete listing of artists and curators in Part III of Project 35, view this link: http://www.sjc.edu/student_life/arts_and_culture/art_gallery/exhibitions/current_exhibition.html
Project 35 is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, by grants from The Cowles Charitable Trust; Foundation for Contemporary Art; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; The Toby Fund; and iCI Benefactors Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, Jo Carole Lauder, and Barbara and John Robinson.
The Saint Joseph College Art Gallery is located in The Bruyette Athenaeum, part of The Carol Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities. The Art Gallery presents regular exhibitions drawn from its permanent collections as well as loan exhibitions of historic art or of contemporary work by artists of national and international prominence.
The Art Gallery is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Thursday: 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.; and Sunday: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.; closed Monday. Admission is free of charge. For more information or if you have any questions, contact the Art Gallery at 860.231.5399 or artgallery@sjc.edu.
