VIDEO ART: REPLAY, PART 3.
LUDICROUS!


March 24 - June 6, 2010
Reception: Thursday, April 22 @ 6-8 pm
Exhibition walkthrough with Curator Jenelle Porter: Thursday, April 22 @ 5 pm, ICA members only

Video Art: Replay is a year-long, three-part exhibition offering a snapshot of current video art, on view September 11, 2009 through June 6, 2010 in ICA's Project Space. Centered around three themes prevalent in video art—documentary (Part 1. Asking Not Telling, September 11-December 6, 2009), animation (Part 2. Everyday Imaginary, January 15-March 21, 2010), and the absurd (Part 3. Ludicrous!, March 24-June 6, 2010); further focus the wide-ranging field of single-channel, projected video.

The final part, subtitled Ludicrous!, includes works that are often laughter-inducing (both joyful and nervous) by way of obvious absurdity, eccentricity, and incongruity. The artists employ such comedic devices as satire, amateurish acting, fantastical narratives, fruitless stances, wacky juxtaposition, and costume and disguise in elaborate performances. Many of the videos immerse audiences in magnificently bizarre worlds. Others use parody to soften the blow on topics that range from the machinations of the art world, to history’s embarrassing hiccups, to the ridiculousness of the recession.

Artists: Ron Amstutz, Tamy Ben-Tor, Brian Bress, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Christian Jankowski, Ragnar Kjartansson, Mores McWreath, My Barbarian, Shannon Plumb, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and Mary Reid Kelley.

Part 3. Ludicrous! is curated by ICA Curator Jenelle Porter.

CALENDAR OF WORKS ON VIEW

March 24-28
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Can’t Swallow It, Can’t Spit It Out, 2006,
video, 26:05 minutes. Courtesy of the artists, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York and Elizabeth Dee, New York.

March 31-April 4
My Barbarian, Night Epi$ode, 2009 (pilot episode), video, 12:20 minutes.
Courtesy of the artists and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles

April 7-11
Brian Bress, Status Report, 2009, video, 19:23 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.

April 14-18
Ron Amstutz, Right Roads and Wrong Ways, 2008, video, 29:49 minutes.
Courtesy of Wallspace, New York.

April 22-April 25
Mary Reid Kelley, Sadie, the Saddest Sadist, 2009, video, 7:23 minutes.
Courtesy of the artist and Fredericks and Freiser Gallery, New York.

April 28-May 1
Mores McWreath, Remain, 2009, HD video, 7 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

May 5-9
Christian Jankowski, When I was a Cuisillo, 2009, video, 2:57 minutes.
Courtesy of Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Lisson Gallery, London, and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.

May 12-16
Ragnar Kjartansson, Satan is Real, 2007, video, 64 minutes.
Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik.

May 19-23
Shannon Plumb, The Corner, 2008, video,14:32 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York.

May 26-30
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Ask Chuleta, 2006-07, video, 20:02 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

June 2-6
Tamy Ben-Tor, End of Art, 2006, video, 7:20 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Zach Feuer Gallery, New York.

ICA acknowledges support from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; The Dietrich Foundation, Inc.; the Overseers Board for the Institute of Contemporary Art; friends and members of ICA; and the University of Pennsylvania.

images top to bottom: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Ask Chuleta , 2006-07, video, 20:02 minutes. Courtesy of the artist. Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn,
Can’t Swallow It, Can’t Spit it Out, 2006, video, 26:05 minutes. Courtesy of the artists, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Ragnar Kjartansson, Satan is Real, 2007, video, 64 minutes. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik.


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