Zero is the beginning.
Today is the last day to catch the ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s exhibition at the Guggenheim NYC. Amazing!
Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, ZERO 3, July 1961
Otto Piene, Venus of Willendorf, 1963
Dina Kantor, On top of Fisher's Chat, OK, 2012
Dina Kantor's Treece
Last night I attended Dina Kantor's opening at A.I.R Gallery in Dumbo where she's exhibiting images from her photographic series Treece. This is the body of work that inspired a significant part of one of my chapters in Vanishing Points, for which I also had the pleasure of interviewing Kantor. The exhibition features many images I hadn't seen before or have included in my publication, plus there are some found images and artifacts on display from the now dissolved town.
The exhibition runs from June 26 - July 20, 2014.
A.I.R. Gallery | 111 Front Street #228, Brooklyn, NY. | GALLERY HOURS: Wed-Sun, 11AM - 6PM
Antonioni's Giving into the Game
After putting together what turned out to be a very colorful discussion on Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and Guy Debord's notion of psychogeography for my Writing and Orality class, I couldn't resist including this memorable closing scene in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up. I'm very happy to make this kind of introduction.
All the Best, Alice
Located within these pages of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media (at the School of Visual Arts) annual department journal All the Best, Alice Spring 2014 issue, is my short essay, The In-Betweenness of Cinema, which accompanies the incredible filmic work of three department alumni: Sharon Mooney, Bo Wang, and Ivan Cortazar.
The journal is beautifully designed and filled with a range of striking images by talented students in the department. It's definitely worth thumbing through its entirety.
Read my essay here.
More talk of invisibility: Friday, Feb. 21, 2014
This past weekend I turned my attention to Christian Marclay's The Clock to discuss time, perception, and the sneaky relationship to presence and absence at the Southwest Popular/American Culture conference in Albuquerque, NM. My paper, A Cinema of Perpetual Invisibility, is derived from a chapter of my soon-to-be-published book, Vanishing Points.
Rendering (the) Visible II: Figure Conference | Feb. 6-8, 2014
This weekend I'm headed to the Rendering the Visible II: Figure Conference, organized by Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where I'm presenting a paper called The Color of Absence in a panel called Phantoms. This paper is derived from my research for Vanishing Points, and focuses on two brilliant film works of invisibility: Guy Debord's Hurlements en faveur de Sade and Nam June Paik's Zen for Film.
