Subject: Video Barbecue at the Bass
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 9, 2001
Video Barbecue at the Bass
Featuring Biting Style and Spitting Image, a program of contemporary video
art
Saturday, May 19, 2001, 6:00-10:00 PM
Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach
In the Bass Museum Sculpture Park
Free admission for program, $5 for barbecue
Contact Denise Delgado at 305.673.7530, ext 1003
A few days after its preinaugural opening night, the Bass Museum of Art will
present the Video Barbecue: an outdoor event featuring video art projected
on a large screen in the sculpture park, a DJ spinning electronic music in
the courtyard, and an abundant outdoor barbecue. Biting Style and Spitting
Image, a 60-minute program of video art, is a compilation of recent works
that reference, appropriate and parody television as an influence,
adversary, and unavoidable media presence.
The program, curated by Denise Delgado, includes work by Miami artists Gavin
Perry, Beatriz Monteavaro, William Cordova, Katy Robinson, and Edward Bobb;
as well as New York-based artists Matthew Keegan, Susan Black, Kate Howard,
Michelle Hines, Adriana Arenas Ilian, Guy Richards Smit, Eli Sudbrach, and
Anissa Mack. The fast-paced collection of short pieces appropriates freely
from music video aesthetics: Susan Black's serenely distorted landscape
shots accompanied by original music, Matthew Keegan's unabashedly sincere
cheerleader paean to his grandmother, and Beatriz Monteavaro's site-specific
allusion to a Frankie Goes to Hollywood video.
Other pieces reference one of our most beloved TV genres: reality-based
programs, banal and seductive at the same time. Michelle Hines' America This
is You features what appears to be rather disturbing footage of a
middle-American family shooting the perfect video to submit to Amerca's
Funniest Home Videos. In First Person, Third Party, Anissa Mack's series of
interviewees speaking directly into the camera may remind you of The Real
World or Big Brother, but the speakers are more likely to talk about
connections between people than squabbling roommates.
A common theme also involves artists playing dress-up with screen-friendly
pop culture personas. I Can Turn Off My Love Light in a Thousand Different
Ways features Guy Richards Smit's crooning alter ego as schmaltzy pop star
Maxi Geil. William Cordova escapes into the horizon disguised as the
legendary masked hero, Zorro. And in Just Like a Movie Star, Eli Sudbrach
lip-synchs as a glittery surfer character at the center of a constellation
of pop culture ephemera called Astro.
The program will be looped for continuous viewing throughout the night.
Visitors can eat ($5 to partake in the barbecue), drink, and get down to
music by DJ NEEDLE (Beta Bodega) in the nearby Bass Museum courtyard.
For more information, contact:
Denise Delgado
Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Tel 305 673 7530, ext 1003
Fax 305 673 7062
ddelgado@bassmuseum.org
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