Video Trans-Americas
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Americas Society announces the launching of Video Trans-Americas, a section newly dedicated to introducing New Yorkers to important and innovative videotapes by artists from throughout the Western Hemisphere.
This initiative was inspired by the late multimedia artist Juan Downey, whose 1971 video installation series of the same name was one of the first to offer a broad view of "America" as inflected by historical, anthropological and personal concerns. In mixing such disparate images, Chilean-born Downey (1940-1993) playfully intervened the otherwise fixed boundaries between fiction and documentary. In this spirit, Video Trans-Americas programs will celebrate the electronic media's position as a mediator between artistic expression and social intervention.
Appropriately, Video Trans-Americas' inaugural series will be an informed selection of Juan Downey's celebrated single-channel videotapes, chosen by his widow Marilys Downey and Americas Society's Visual Arts Program director Gabriela Rangel. This presentation will complement the gallery exhibition Pedro Reyes Ad Usum: To Be Used, on view from February 28 through May 5, 2007.
The following works will be screened in three separate programs:
PROGRAM 1
Performative Trajectories
February 28th to March 24th
Fresh Air (1971-73), Portapack, edited video 3/4, 1971, 16 min. loop, b/w, sound
Moving (1974), Portapack edited video 3/4, 26 min., colorized
In the Beginning (1976) Portapack edited 3/4, b/w, 1973-1974, 27 min., sound, single
PROGRAM 2
Ways of Believing
March 26th to April 14th
Chile (1974), 16 mm. transfer to 3/4 video, 1974, b/w and color, sound
Return of the Motherland (1989), Video 3/4, 1986-1987, 7:04 min, color, stereo
Chiloe, No (1988) Video 3/4, 1988, 2:30 min., color, stereo
Chicago Boys, Portapack video, 1983, 16:00 min., color, stereo
PROGRAM 3
Anthropology as Auto- Biography and Fiction
April 16th to May 5th
The Laughing Alligator (1976-77), Video 3/4,1976-1979, 27 min, b/w, color, sound
The Abandoned Shabono (1978), Video 3/4, 1976-1978, 27 min., color, sound
Guahibos (1976), Video 3/4 , 1976, 25:10 min., b/w, color, sound
Guatemala (1973), October 1973 Video, 27:32, b/w., sound: Technician: Juanfi Lamadrid
This initiative was inspired by the late multimedia artist Juan Downey, whose 1971 video installation series of the same name was one of the first to offer a broad view of "America" as inflected by historical, anthropological and personal concerns. In mixing such disparate images, Chilean-born Downey (1940-1993) playfully intervened the otherwise fixed boundaries between fiction and documentary. In this spirit, Video Trans-Americas programs will celebrate the electronic media's position as a mediator between artistic expression and social intervention.
Appropriately, Video Trans-Americas' inaugural series will be an informed selection of Juan Downey's celebrated single-channel videotapes, chosen by his widow Marilys Downey and Americas Society's Visual Arts Program director Gabriela Rangel. This presentation will complement the gallery exhibition Pedro Reyes Ad Usum: To Be Used, on view from February 28 through May 5, 2007.
The following works will be screened in three separate programs:
PROGRAM 1
Performative Trajectories
February 28th to March 24th
Fresh Air (1971-73), Portapack, edited video 3/4, 1971, 16 min. loop, b/w, sound
Moving (1974), Portapack edited video 3/4, 26 min., colorized
In the Beginning (1976) Portapack edited 3/4, b/w, 1973-1974, 27 min., sound, single
PROGRAM 2
Ways of Believing
March 26th to April 14th
Chile (1974), 16 mm. transfer to 3/4 video, 1974, b/w and color, sound
Return of the Motherland (1989), Video 3/4, 1986-1987, 7:04 min, color, stereo
Chiloe, No (1988) Video 3/4, 1988, 2:30 min., color, stereo
Chicago Boys, Portapack video, 1983, 16:00 min., color, stereo
PROGRAM 3
Anthropology as Auto- Biography and Fiction
April 16th to May 5th
The Laughing Alligator (1976-77), Video 3/4,1976-1979, 27 min, b/w, color, sound
The Abandoned Shabono (1978), Video 3/4, 1976-1978, 27 min., color, sound
Guahibos (1976), Video 3/4 , 1976, 25:10 min., b/w, color, sound
Guatemala (1973), October 1973 Video, 27:32, b/w., sound: Technician: Juanfi Lamadrid
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