Curatorial Project: Artist Television Access Windows
3-Month Guest Curatorship
Three solo exhibitions exploring the artist’s presence, physical & otherwise in contemporary video & installation art in the ATA window with complimentary projects including podcasts, interactive opening night performances and Public TV broadcasts.
Matthew Hughes Boyko: Initials
November 2 - 30, 2006
With the popularity of video blogging & websites like Youtube, Blogspot and Myspace we are seeing a new aesthetic in video. How does this amateur video affect our visual culture and fine art? Matthew Hughes Boyko has created collection of work by appropriating Youtube videos and creating original videos inspired by Youtube. In a window display designed by Tae Kitakata, Matthew’s 3 Volume Set of videos will be shown. The Volumes will be for sale at ATA during the exhibition length.
Rebecca Frediani: Folk Saint
December 2 – 30, 2006
Folk Saint will consist of Rebecca physically embodying a saint/folk hero (inspired by Christian and Iraqi Myths) that will endure martyr like trials, some tragic some humorous within several video performances that will be displayed in the window.
“The potential for empathy can only be achieved within a combination of elements that are on one hand highly familiar and on the other completely foreign. Within that space of familiarity and of the unknown a tension is created wherein a viewer is pulled into the space… The creation of Folk Saint is an attempt at combining the traditional trials of Christian saints with the vernacular folk stories and culture of humor and loss that imbues Iraqi folk tales from the last century.” – Rebecca Frediani
Kenneth Lo: Rice Balla Chronicles
January 2 - 30, 2007
Kenneth Lo explores the life and achievements of one basketball hero nicknamed “Yellow Fever” (because his game was sick) in a series of farcical biographical videos. He brings up topics such as how race and gender interact with urban and pop-culture identities. How the popularity of hip-hop and basketball bleed out into and mix with other cultures; and what would it be like to play ball with Kobe Bryant?