Innovative Video Artists Slice Familiar Films; CUT: Film as Found Object Opens January 22 at Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa

Innovative Video Artists Slice Familiar Films; CUT: Film as Found Object Opens January 22 at Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa

TULSA, Okla., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- "CUT: Film as Found Object," on view at the Philbrook Museum of Art January 22 - March 26 consists of 13 video installations. In this innovative installation of unique mini-theater video projections, artists manipulate pre-existing film and television in ways that make the familiar unfamiliar, and provide the viewer the opportunity to experience a new reality. Edited films of note include 24 Hour Psycho, Witches of Eastwick, Dirty Harry and Live CNN News Anchors. Artists featured include Christian Marclay, Pierre Huyghe and Douglas Gordon, among others.

Executive Director Brian Ferriso said, "CUT: Film as Found Object" is Philbrook's first large-scale video installation, presenting artists who sample, manipulate and recontextualize existing film and television footage to create their own work. Many of the works in the exhibition are inspired by some of the 20th-century's most important artists and the art they championed, including Marcel Duchamp's readymades, Kurt Schwitter's collages, and Andy Warhol's reappropriated images and objects. This exhibition is an important part of our expanding contemporary art program, whereby Philbrook is bringing critically acclaimed art to the region that not only educates about our contemporary world but also our past."

Philbrook's Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art Catherine Morris said, "In this intriguing exhibition, artists manipulate the most familiar of media, the moving picture, film and television, restructuring reality to make the familiar unfamiliar and providing the viewer the opportunity to comprehend a new reality. The emphasis is not on the use of found footage itself, but on its manipulation to create a new work."

The 13 works in the exhibition, each housed in an independent theatre or viewing room, explore a wide range of variations and methodologies. Indebted to the appropriation strategies of the '80s integrated with hip hop and rap music of the '90s, these artists are united by their gestural use of the editing.

The artists in "CUT" have taken the material of their reality, the movie and the news program, and manipulated it to reveal its power to communicate and shape reality. Whether through looping, repetition, erasure or compression, their active manipulation of their medium recalls the importance that action was given by Richard Serra in 1968, when he published Verb List, a list of actions that a sculptor could use to create sculpture -- to roll, to crease, to fold, to cut, etc. "CUT" explores the actions through which artists create video.

Exhibition Content:
Works in the exhibition include:
* Soliloquy Trilogy (2002) by Candice Breitz
* Video Quartet (2002) and Telephone (1995) by Christian Marclay
* Ellipse (1998) by Pierre Huyghe
* 24 Hour Psycho (1993) and Black and White (Babylon) (1996) by Douglas
Gordon
* Horror Chase (2002) and Learning from Las Vegas (2003) by Jennifer and
Kevin McCoy
* The Long Count (Rumble in the Jungle) (2001); The Long Count (I Shook
up the World) (2001); The Long Count (Thrilla in Manila) (2001); and
Live Evil (2002) by Paul Pfeiffer
* CNN Concatenated (2002) by Omer Fast
* The Blink (2000-2001) by Michael Joaquin Grey

The exhibition was originally organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum with the assistance of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami. "CUT: Film as Found Object" had its world premiere November 13, 2004 - January 30, 2005 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and was on display during Art Basel Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair in December.

Source: Philbrook Museum of Art

CONTACT: Peggy Striegel, +1-918-748-5385, or pstriegel@philbrook.org ,
for Philbrook Museum of Art

Web site: http://www.philbrook.org/

NOTE TO EDITORS: For high-resolution digital images, contact Peggy Striegel.

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