George Drivas, Empirical Data, 2009

Hybrid Stories

From the EMST Collection

27.06 - 29.09.2013

Athens Conservatoire

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) presents Hybrid stories, from the EMST Collection, an exhibition of 14 works, of video art and film, by acclaimed artists.

This particular selection of works combines the other aspects of the new narrativity which formed during the 70s when artists chose video as their new medium of recording or started undermining the established cinematic practices. From a medium of recording, video became in the hands of these visual artists an exceptionally flexible and expressive instrument. Through the hybrid character of the produced artworks, in which painting, sculpture, music, theatricality, cinematic narrative and television are brought together, one recognizes the concerns of contemporary aesthetics in relation to the correspondence of the arts of space and time and also the realization of the demand for the synthesis of the arts.

Works:

  • George Drivas, Empirical Data, 2009, HD digital video, Black and white with sound, Duration 34′
  • Rebecca Horn, Buster’s Bedroom, 1990, 35mm film transferred to DVD, Color with sound, Duration 104′
  • Rebecca Horn, La Ferdinada: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa, 1981, 35mm film transferred to DVD, Color with sound, Duration 85′
  • Robert Wilson, Deafman Glance, 1981, Video, Color with sound, Duration 26’53”
  • Sophie Calle & Gregory Shephard, Double- blind, 1992, Video, Color with sound, Duration 75’58”
  • Dimitris Kozaris, Once upon a time in the western, 2000, Video, Color with sound, Duration 35′
  • George Drivas, Sequence Error, 2011, HD digital video, Color with sound, Duration 11′
  • Rebecca Horn, Der Eintänzer, 1978, 16mm film transferred to DVD, Color with sound, Duration 47′
  • Rebecca Horn, Cutting through the Past, 1995, 16mm film transferred to DVD, Color with sound, Duration 55′
  • Garry Hill, Ura Aru (the backside exists), 1985-1986, Video, Colour with sound, Duration 28’30”
  • Shelly Silver, What I’m Looking for, 2004, Video, Color with sound, Duration 75’58”
  • Chris Marker, Immemory, 1997, Multimedia CD-Rom
  • Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, Soft and Hard (A Soft Conversation on Hard Subjects), 1985, Video, Color with sound, Duration 48’11”
  • Richard Brouilllette, L‘encerclement: La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme, 2008, HDCam shot in 16mm, Black and white with sound, Duration 160′

Curated by Stamatis Schizakis