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salon: Jordan Crandall, Thursday, 30 May 2002, 20.00 hrs |
Podewil,
Klosterstr.68-70, Berlin-Mitte, tickets: EUR 5 / 4 'Trigger' In recent years,
the New York artist Jordan Crandall has become well-known for his interactive
and video installations which are dominated by discourses of violence,
control and psychological tension. Military and surveillance technologies
play an important role in Crandall's work which investigates their cultural
and psychological impact. Crandall will present background notes, storyboards, and structural diagrams for his new project 'Trigger.' He will use these materials as tools for looking at larger cultural issues, particularly those that are fueled by technologies of combat and control. Emphasizing the new formats of representation that arise within contemporary perceptual battlefields, particularly in the context of the new global 'war on terror,' he will discuss his aesthetic strategies, positioning them within broader issues of militarization. As eye, camera, and weapon combine in new morphologies of battle, Crandall will emphasize the 'status of the seer' and the changing constitution of the human as it plays out along spectrums of the manned and unmanned. In contrast to
more purely technological or economic approaches, Crandall adopts a
military lexicon, but his work is couched within this vocabulary in
a creative and manipulative way. It points at the flows between militarization
and the organization of self, tool, and culture, as these play out in
a contemporary landscape of power. It deploys new imaging technologies
and control formats that are writ large in the military, in order to
implicate emerging agencies of seeing, whether in terms of domestic,
individual, or self policing. It moves toward a new literacy of control
systems, one that taps into the psychological, interpersonal, and symbolic
dimensions of "armed" conflict and the underrecognized dynamics of invasion
and defense at the level of individuals. It seeks to understand how
these phenomena are filtered into new logics of representation. In cooperation
with Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, which is showing Crandall's
exhibition 'Trigger Project' (until 9 June). [www.edith-russ-haus.de]
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transmediale
salon: Jordan Crandall, Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2002, 20.00 Uhr |
Podewil,
Klosterstr.68-70, Berlin-Mitte, Eintritt: EUR 5 / 4 'Trigger' Der New Yorker
Künstler Jordan Crandall hat sich in den letzten Jahren vor allem durch
seine interaktiven und Video-Installationen einen Namen gemacht, die
von Diskursen über Gewalt, Kontrolle und psychologische Spannung bestimmt
sind. Eine dominierende Rolle in Crandalls Arbeit spielen Militär- und
Überwachungstechnologien, die auf ihre kulturelle und psychologische
Wirkung hin untersucht werden. Crandall zeigt exemplarische Video-Arbeiten
und diskutiert seine ästhetischen Strategien im Kontext des aktuellen,
nicht-erklärten globalen Krieges. In Kooperation
mit dem Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, das bis zum 9. Juni
Crandalls Ausstellung 'Trigger Project' zeigt. [www.edith-russ-haus.de] |