9 February – 8
May 2005 Opening reception: Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 7–9 pm
MARKING TIME
An exhibition presented in collaboration with the Getty, organized
by Glenn R. Phillips, research associate and consulting curator
of the Getty
Research Institute’s Department of Contemporary Programs and Research.
Vito Acconci, Burt Barr, Lia Chaia, Brock Enright, Terry Fox,
Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, Kimsooja, Gordon Matta-Clark,
Jennifer
Nelson, and Erwin Wurm.
Marking Time, an international survey of film and video art produced
from the 1960s to the present, examines different ways in which
artists have depicted time and its passage. Focused on works that
are visually
arresting, sometimes radical, and often humorous, Marking Time
aims to be an evocative presentation of topics ranging from the
abstract
notions
of time as a concept to the physicality of time as experience.
The exhibition explores duration and the exploits of time as used
by
earlier video artists
as a formal structuring device, and then relays into later manipulations
of time, as digital and analog efforts expand or compress this
passage in cycles or trajectories. Other works foreground time
as a measurement
of endurance and the horrors of waiting, as artists test their
personal limits while a viewing audience bears witness.
Organized
in conjunction with the Getty Research Institute’s 2004–2005
scholar-year theme, “Duration,” Marking Time also includes
a screening of additional single-channel works at the Getty Center
on Thursday, 14 April 2005 at 7:30 pm, which features artists Vito
Acconci,
David Askevold, Kelly Dobson, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Wim
Gijzen, Tom Kalin, Paul Kos, Katarzyna Kozyra, Kimsooja, and Erwin
Wurm.
