| Special Projects Program, Spring 2001
March 11, 2001 – May, 2001
On March 11th, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents
Special Projects by Pierre Giner, Judith Murray, and Ross Sinclair.
Continuing Projects include work by Susan Black, Karin Campbell, Ivana
Franke, and Andrew Mount.
The P.S.1 Special Projects Program showcases the
work of artists distinguished by the site-specific, process-oriented or
audience-interactive nature of their work. Each year, 12 artists have the opportunity to
develop and present a newly created project. Throughout the program period, artists work
with their studio doors open to the public, allowing for an opportunity of exchange
between artist and audience. As a new aspect of the Special Projects Program,
writers are welcomed to contribute their responses to the work. Selected submissions are
published on P.S.1’s website (www.ps1.org) and are made available to visitors on
site.
Special Projects Artists: March – May 2001
Pierre Giner (b. 1966, France)
"Dancing" is a work that deals with the body and movement. This 3-channel video
installation creates a space in which the intimate and the public sphere interact. Men and
women, projected life-size and larger than life in a darkened room, stand, dance, and gaze
at each other. Their movements and gestures involve the viewer in an ambiguous tri-part
relationship within the exhibition space.
This project is organized in conjunction with the France Moves Festival. Please
visit www.francemoves.com for more information.
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Judith Murray (b. 1941, United States)
"Toward a Supreme Fiction", whose title refers to the poem by famed American
Modernist Wallace Stevens, is an exploration of modernist painting. Marked by a
disciplined use of color (mostly red, yellow, black, and white), and with rhythmic and
spontaneous strokes, Murray’s canvases are infused with a vitality reflecting the
energy and pace of nature. Abstraction becomes an instrument that allows Murray to explore
her inspiration in the play between art and nature.
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Ross Sinclair (b. 1966, Scotland)
Ross Sinclair presents "The Sound of Young Scotland", a video which features the
artist, naked to the waist, vigorously singing traditional Scottish songs in various
bucolic settings in Scotland. Through these scenes, Sinclair reveals the constructed
nature of nostalgia in the context of commercial advertising. He addresses how tourism
exploits notions of the sublime by presenting it as product. Ross Sinclair lives and works
in Scotland.
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Susan Black (b. 1964, United States)
Susan Black’s videos depict landscapes minimally re-edited to incorporate personal
experience and impressions. Sometimes, the artist turns an image upside-down, re-mixes
music to compose a soundtrack, or manipulates color. In "Heaven on Earth," she
highlights the flawlessly landscaped neighborhood of the California retiree, with its
perfect gardens and gravel paths neatly turned upside-down. Black’s work is currently
featured in the 7th Havana Biennial in Havana, Cuba (2000).
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Karin Campbell (b. 1962, San Diego)
Karin Campbell debuts her video "Looped Tear," in which we see a tear rolling
down Campbell’s cheek into her ear and rolling back up, as if being replenished by
the ear. As the tear travels between these two points of the body, the notion of gravity
and bodily function becomes abstract. Campbell performs "When I Close My
Eyes…" in which she sits in conversation with visitors, images of eyes painted
on her closed eyelids, on February 4th and March 11th at P.S.1.
Karin Campbell lives and works in New York.
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Ivana Franke (b. 1973, Zabreb, Croatia)
Ivana Franke presents a site-specific installation that explores the stillness of space
and the perception of material presence. Upon entering, visitors are enveloped by soft
white light which barely makes visible the delicate physical elements suspended around
them. Using such materials as paraffin, paper, threads, and fishing line, Franke invokes
simple geometrical rhythms that decelerate the pace of the environment. Ivana Franke lives
and works in Zagreb.
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Andrew Mount (b. 1969, Liverpool)
Andrew Mount addresses the codes and economy of art with his multimedia installation of
sound, light, and material objects. Mount deconstructs the holistic notions of art by
presenting a fractured experience of the spectacle. His use of raw unfinished materials
references the inchoate stages leading to the materiality of art. Andrew Mount lives and
works in New York.
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P.S.1’s Special Projects Program is made
possible in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The participation of
Judith Murray and Ross Sinclair is made possible by the Jerome Foundation. Pierre
Giner’s project is made possible by Services Culturels de L’Ambassade de France.
Ivana Franke’s project selected by Croatian curator Branko Franceschi was made
possible through FACE Croatia, administered by Arts International, with funding from the
Heathcote Art Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. |
