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Sookoon Ang |
 Foobel (An Alternative History) 2005, 8:56 min. (video, color, sound) This video was made in direct response to political arguments over the construction of new sports stadiums, both in the US and UK. Most famous to New Yorkers was last year’s fiasco surrounding the Jets stadium proposed for the west side of Manhattan. This animated video refers more directly to the English game of football, but creates a brief absurd history of the evolvement of the stadium from playing surface to ‘Babel-esque’ monstrosity. It is a satire of the need for bigger and bigger stages of any popular type of theatre at the expense of everything else. However it conflates the greed and absurdity of the issues with the thrill of the game and the epic religiosity associated with it.
The opening scene of this animation shows a massive recall of cameras and film to the Kodak factory in Rochester, NY. Out of thousands of lost or unfulfilled photographs, the scene literally opens up into a semi-narrative journey depicting a camping trip gone awry. These found photographs were brought to life using stop-motion animation in order to alter and usurp their original meaning, whilst emphasizing the three-dimensionality of the paper itself. By literally cutting, twisting and bending the images and adding sound, they take on a quietly absurd narrative that transports the viewer from one environment into the next, whilst never escaping the simplicity and frailty of the illusion. Though video is itself a transient medium, this video focuses on that transience through the process of unraveling material still images, emphasizing their physical instability and their perceptual malleability. Program 24 : 01. April . 2006 |
ROB CARTER (UK / USA)My videos and photographs examine paper as both a physical object and as a malleable document of the real. The imagery often relies on theatrical manipulation or illusion, but uses these mechanisms in order to inform or expand the meaning or reading of the imagery, rather than trick the viewer. My recent work employs video animation and photographic 're-constructions' that exploit the theatricality of architecture and landscape as a platform to spotlight the iconic and political structures of sports stadia. "A visual artist who works with photography, and video, Rob Carter received his BFA from the The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University (UK) in 1998. In August 2000 he relocated to New York to attend Hunter College, receiving his MFA in 2003. He has exhibited his work in numerous locations in Europe and the United States, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY." RESIDENCIES 2007 (Sept - Nov 2007) McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC 2003 Atlantic Center for the Arts (with Vik Muniz), New Smyrna, FL 1998 - 2000 Tonbridge School Artist in Residence, Tonbridge, Kent, U.K. EXHIBITIONS (* SOLO EXHIBITIONS) 2007 (May) Locations of Elsewhere, Peer Gallery, New York 2006 Open Video Projects, Netwerk / Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium Kuyo, Onishi Gallery, New York Twin Reflections, curated by Leah Oates, DAM,STUHLTRAGER GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY <press release> The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker and Franklin Sirmans, Roebling Hall, New York This One Time…, Kiana Malekzadeh Gallery, New York Open Video Projects, blueRoom, Rome, Italy 2005 Co-dependent, The Living Room, Miami, FL Dark Nature: Part 1, 111 Front St, Brooklyn, NY Video Series Selections, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston The Space Between, Mixed Greens, New York, online review (English translation) Strange: Brew, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY, website Migration, Barbés, Brooklyn, NY New Acquisitions, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge UK 2004 Space Invaders, The Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY European Exchange Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, NY *Flat Theatrical Fiction, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge UK Europe Day 2004, The Dahesh Museum, New York About Face, Barbés, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Brooklyn Bounce & The Cootie Catcher, The Beaker Gallery, Tampa FL Move On, Aviate, Knitting Factory, New York Play, Barbés, Brooklyn, NY Flux Core, Brooklyn, NY MFA Thesis Show, Times Square Gallery, New York 2000 - 2002 Open Studios, Hunter College MFA building, New York 2001 Colaboratory, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY 2000 *Getting Around, E.M.Forster Theatre, Tonbridge, UK 1999 Eight New Painters, The Bull & Last, London, UK *Level, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge, UK *Recent Work, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge, UK Tunnel Vision, four person show, The Tunnel, Tonbridge, UK 1998 Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough, The Custard Factory Gallery, Birmingham, UK *BFA Thesis Show, The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, UK *Stretching Walls, The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, UK 1997 *The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, UK *The Vaughn Room Gallery, Somerville College, Oxford, UK 2006 The AFC Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Photographs of Rob Carter, Art Fag City, July 5th 2006 <PDF version> 2005 The Space Between, by Yoko Yamazaki, New-York-Art.com, August 2006 online review (English translation) 2002 Second Sight, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, March 22nd 2002 |
A Kodak Recall