1 February 2012
DJCAD to host exhibition of video art
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) is to host a major international exhibition of video art.
'RECORD>AGAIN!' opens at Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, located within Dundee Contemporary Arts, on Friday, 3rd February. It forms the second phase of '40yearsvideoart.de', a project that seeks to preserve, restore and disseminate one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century.
The exhibition focuses exclusively on the medium of video. Many works from the history of video have previously been considered untraceable or no longer playable. The project's main concern is to save these works from deteriorating while at the same time reconstructing the history of the video movement as a whole.
The exhibition features more than 40 outstanding video pieces made between 1968 and 2008, including many works that have not been seen for decades. Highlights include a rare work by Ulrike Rosenbach with her partner at the time, Klaus vom Bruch, the boxing match from 1972 that Joseph Beuys participated in at the documenta 5, and the first video synthesizer collages by Walter Schröder-Limmer.
DJCAD Curator Sophia Hao said the exhibition offered a rare opportunity to see key moments in the evolution of video art, and that it fitted with the objectives of the 'REWIND: Artists' Veideo in the 70s & 80s' research project at DJCAD.
'We are delighted to be the only venue in the UK to host this unique exhibition of significant Video Art works from Germany, which resonates with the ethos of REWIND at DJCAD,' she said.
'We are also looking forward to The Record/Rewind in Conversation Event on Thursday 2nd Feb at 3pm to hear the keynote speakers from both Germany and Britain provide insights into a forty year history of new media art that has had a huge influence on our approach to and perspective on the wider world.'
The 40yearsvideoart.de project was initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2006, and has seen five leading German museums collaborate to create the RECORD>AGAIN! exhibition.
The REWIND project at DJCAD provides a meaningful context for this exhibition to be shown at Centrespace at Visual Research Centre, DJCAD. Through its focus on video works of the 1970s and 1980s, it provides a resource to address the gap in historical knowledge of the evolution of electronic media arts in the UK.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) it has investigated, conserved and archived over 450 single screen and installation works from the first two decades of artists' works in video.
The exhibition opens with 'RECORD/REWIND In-conversation Event' at 3-4.30pm on Thursday, 2nd February. Featuring researchers, curators and artists from Germany and Britain, this discursive event provides a unique opportunity to scrutinise the histories of the video art movement in both countries.
The exhibition is supported by the Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, and will be open to the public between 12-4.30pm each day until 4th March. A screening event will also take place on 15th February.
More information is available at ww.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/exhibitions/record-again/.
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