Public Programs
Current & Upcoming Public Programs
TONY OURSLER: Screening + Conversation
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 6:30 pm
Please join EAI for a special evening with artist Tony Oursler.
Focusing on Oursler's single-channel video works, the screening program will follow his wildly inventive exploration of narrative, visuals and sound across four decades, from his rarely seen, earliest video pieces of the late 1970s to recent work created in collaboration with musicians such as Sonic Youth, David Bowie and Beck. Following the screening, Oursler will appear in conversation with EAI Executive Director Lori Zippay.
Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive
Gallery Talk by EAI Executive Director Lori Zippay
Dia:Beacon
Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon, NY 12508
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2pm
Lori Zippay, Executive Director of EAI and guest curator of Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive, will present a Gallery Talk on the exhibition at Dia:Beacon on Saturday, February 11th. Organized on the occasion of EAI's 40th anniversary, Circa 1971 brings together more than 20 single-channel works from one of the world's most comprehensive collections of video art. Taking the year of EAI's founding as a point of departure, the exhibition sets in dialogue a series of diverse works linked by alternative artistic practices and activist impulses. Circa 1971 presents a snapshot of a cultural moment—or, more accurately, a countercultural moment—and the fertile political and artistic landscape from which these works emerged.
CIRCA 1971
Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive at Dia:Beacon
Dia:Beacon
Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon, NY 12508
September 17, 2011—September 4, 2012
Dia Art Foundation presents Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries. Circa 1971 brings together 20 moving image works from EAI's collection of over 3,500 media artworks. Celebrating EAI's 40th anniversary, the exhibition was organized by guest curator Lori Zippay, Executive Director of EAI.
Circa 1971 includes pieces by Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Shirley Clarke, Dan Graham, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Joan Jonas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Nam June Paik, Raindance, Anthony Ramos, Carolee Schneemann, TVTV, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and others.
Taking the year of EAI's founding as its point of departure, the exhibition sets in dialogue a series of diverse works created in and around 1971, which are linked by alternative artistic and activist impulses. Circa 1971 exposes the generative encounters among these artists and influences and initiates unexpected correspondences between seemingly disparate works.
