tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466314672723988836.post9190867284812745479..comments2023-09-30T00:43:13.890-07:00Comments on The Current Season: Ellie Ga at Bureaumoderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653277482083573538noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466314672723988836.post-55819796804285770832014-05-13T13:34:20.212-07:002014-05-13T13:34:20.212-07:00There was something very bizarre about this show: ...There was something very bizarre about this show: On the one hand every time I tried to figure out reasons for some of the elements exhibited, I felt that there were a few unnecessary things. But when I was thinking of a show without them, it seemed even worse. The hypnotic quality of the video with the letterpress was very interesting. The boom of the research/identity art, has to do I think, with the need to identify as an individual within homogenized cultural landscapes, the internet, globalization etc.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03939128896585893372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466314672723988836.post-39384242772942957382014-05-06T20:21:28.258-07:002014-05-06T20:21:28.258-07:00I also really enjoyed this show. I liked the aust...I also really enjoyed this show. I liked the austerity of the physical works next to which the video looked juicy and seductive (only by comparison). Anthony is right that there seems to be a rash of artists who are dealing with themes like, research, archive, the documentary. It might be interesting to say a little more about whatever this need to preserve might be. I found the video of the letterpress block to be riveting. I thought that all your points about language, communication, and the difficulties therein were extremely on point. <br /><br />Whitney Ramagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05868866730628226962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466314672723988836.post-18037015777650635472014-05-01T13:04:25.062-07:002014-05-01T13:04:25.062-07:00I liked this show a good deal, It seems like we...I liked this show a good deal, It seems like we've been to a few galleries with artist that are engaged in this research project practice (Emily Jacir I'd say could be another) however I can't really tell if you liked the work or what your concluding judgement on it is. I think it might help to lead through the review the way the gallery set up the works starting with projector, then the three smaller prints/photographs and finally the video installation that translates the bits of information from those pieces into her larger exposition. As another structural note, I think you introduce the three channel video in your introduction and then again in the same paragraph. or at least it feels that way. <br /><br />I think there might also be something more you can pick up from the works although i'm not sure 570 words is enough to lay it out here along with the other points you've made. Something about the methods of visual communication and faults of translation there in the photograph of what looks like fabricated dice and the white on white print that describes a myth especially since the left and right channels of the video show the process of both. (although I'm not sure its these actual pieces, i tried to pay attention to the letters she picked out but I dont think I could)Anthony Vazquezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03800142041291123634noreply@blogger.com