[ecrea] PUBLIC 46: Prime Mover: On Collecting Media Art now available

New issue of PUBLIC now available
http://www.publicjournal.ca/46-prime-mover/

PUBLIC 46: Prime Mover: On Collecting Media Art
By Christopher Eamon

PUBLIC 46: Prime Mover is selection of five essays corresponding to
five hypothetical exhibitions of works from an influential private
collection with which Eamon was professionally involved for more than
ten years. The collection, one of the first in private hands to focus
almost exclusively on time-based media, has been the subject of a
number of graduate theses and museum catalogues, but this publication
aims to bolster these efforts towards better understanding of a
collection that has altered the field of media art. In a sense, these
essays constitute a history of moving-image art starting from around
1900 that is meant to be a resource for students of film and video
art, on the one hand, and for scholars investigating the history of
collections on the other.

Media, or time-based, art had not been seriously collected before, not
in depth by private collectors, and except for the small number of
public institutions worldwide—those which had specific curatorial
departments dedicated to the medium—much of the film and video
installation art shown at many museums was not actually collected by
those institutions over the years; the work was considered by many to
be uncollectable. These collectors’ commitment to the form at once
leveled that understanding, ending what had once been a resistant
strategy for artists opposing the limits of commodification. Since
then, the existence of the collection has opened up new approaches to
curation, new practices of exhibition, and, yes, new models of
resistance particular to time-based media.

Although the five exhibitions imagined here evolved separately, they
can be read as chapters of a continuous story, or, alternatively, they
can be read as different lenses through which one can look at the
history of media art itself, as a necessarily fragmentary history. The
different formats and different approaches in this publication all
come from the curator’s toolbox, where one is able to place works of
art in a variety of contexts, grouping them in ways that both
illuminate the works and, hopefully, the history of art as well.

Richly illustrated with works by: Yvonne Rainer, Andy Warhol, Tacita
Dean, Marcel Broodthaers, Jeff Wall, Bill Viola, Darren Almond, Dara
Birnbaum, James Coleman, Vito Acconci, Yves Klein, Matthew Barney, Sol
LeWitt, Marcel Duchamp, Gary Hill, Thomas Struth, Christian Marclay,
Robert Barry, VALIE EXPORT, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Gilbert &
George, Dan Graham, David Hammons, Steve McQueen, Bruce Nauman, Jospeh
Beuys, Tony Conrad, Sigmar Polke & Christof Kohlhofer, Lee
Friedlander, Marina Abramovic', Nam June Paik, Gerhard Richter, Robert
Barry, Janet Cardiff, Robert Adams, Joel Meyerowitz, Peter Campus,
Beryl Korot, Billy Name, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jane and Louise
Wilson, Martin Kippenberger, Eija-Lissa Ahtila, Stan Douglas, Rodney
Graham, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Yang Fudong.

Contents: EXHIBITION 1: Still/Moving? EXHIBITION 2: Prime Mover:
Conceptualism in Motion EXHIBITION 3: Rare Film and Audio Art
EXHIBITION 4: Real Time, Flux and Modernity EXHIBITION 5: Cinema and
its Others

Reviews by: Jill Glessing, Lisa Myers, Michael DiRisio, Andrew Stooke,
and Yvonne Nowicka-Wright

35-page sneak peek: http://issuu.com/publicjournal/docs/public46
184 pages, over 100 pages of images, partial colour.
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For more information:
Aleksandra Kaminska
Managing Editor
PUBLIC Art Culture Ideas
Toronto, ON
(public /at/ yorku.ca)
http://www.publicjournal.ca

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