DARA BIRNBAUM: BEFORE WONDER WOMAN Early Performance Video Screening + Conversation |
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
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EAI is proud to present a screening and conversation with pioneering video artist Dara Birnbaum, whose provocative analyses of television and mass culture have been highly influential. Marking the publication of a major new book, Dara Birnbaum: The Dark Matter of Media Light, Birnbaum will screen and speak about her earliest videos, which preceded and informed her well-known single-channel works—including the classic Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman—of the late 1970s and '80s.
__________________________________ Birnbaum will also sign copies of her new catalogue. Dara Birnbaum: The Dark Matter of Media Light is the most comprehensive book to date on the artist's groundbreaking oeuvre and the companion volume to the major retrospective of Birnbaum's work, exhibited at S.M.A.K., Ghent, in 2009 and Museu Serralves, Porto, in 2010. Published by S.M.A.K. and Fundação de Serralves in association with DelMonico Books·Prestel, the book was edited by Karen Kelly, Barbara Schröder, and Giel Vandecaveye, with conversations between Birnbaum and Hans Ulrich Obrist and essays by Sigrid Adorf, Marianne Brouwer, Johanna Burton, Diedrich Diederichsen, Marina Gržinić, Steven Jacobs and Michael Newman, and texts by Lori Zippay and Rebecca Cleman. The book will be available for purchase at EAI during the program at a special discounted rate. __________________________________ Dara Birnbaum received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Birnbaum has taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; Princeton University; and the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has received numerous grants and awards for her work in video, from institutions including the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Tate Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; among others. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Jewish Museum, New York; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Wilkinson Gallery, London; IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia; and the Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, among others. Retrospective screenings have been presented at The American Film Institute, Los Angeles; Kunsthaus, Zurich; and Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland. Birnbaum was the only video artist invited to participate in Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany; the 1985 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; and the 74th American Exhibition, Chicago, where she was awarded the Norman Wait Harris Prize. In 2010 she was honored with a USA Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Fellow award from United States Artists Fellowship Program. In 2011 she was awarded a Creative Artist Residency at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Birnbaum was honored with a major retrospective of her work at S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent, Belgium, in 2009, and the Museu Serralves in Porto, Portugal, in 2010. __________________________________ DARA BIRNBAUM: BEFORE WONDER WOMAN is part of an ongoing series of events and projects marking EAI's 40th anniversary year. For more information about upcoming programs in this series, please click here. __________________________________ EAI: Celebrating 40 Years ___________________________________ This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Experimental Television Center. The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds Program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. |