New Red Order, Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality2020, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 9 minutes.
WHAT IS VIDEO ART? On the occasion of “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”, a major investigation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until July 8), art forum considers a medium whose novelty – its “promise of novelty”, as Alex Kitnick writing – once electrified artists and theorists. Today, video has colonized all facets of life and demands new approaches. In the pages that follow, a group of eminent contributors chronicles the ways in which artists have mobilized the screen, whether by using it as a weapon in an asymmetrical war with the mass media, by blurring its conventions to antagonize the banalities of the content, or by cultivating one’s capacity for liveliness. , immediacy and feedback.
For the issue’s main essay, Kitnick traces a genealogy of video art’s elusive past and tenuous future, tracing artists’ engagements with the ever-shifting target of the present. Three contributors examine the video through the prism of recent exhibitions: Tina RiversRyan offers him to take “Signals”; Erika Balsom performs on ‘People Make Television’ at London’s Raven Row; And Anna Lovat is considering “I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen” at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art. Finally, four artists—Seth Price, Martine Syms, Tiffany SiaAnd cory arcangel— share video works that have shaped their practices.
