Acclaimed Works of Video Art on View for 2011/2012 Season

Landmarks Video announces its second season of video art beginning in September 2011.

An ongoing initiative of Landmarks, the video series aims to familiarize the university community with important titles, stimulate conversation and research, and situate the genre of video art alongside the presentation of more traditional works. Each video presentation is accompanied by an entry published on the Landmarks Website that provides an overview of the artist and the work presented.

Landmarks Video features the work of twelve artists annually, one per month, which are screened on a 65" high-definition media station. The station is situated in an open atrium that provides stadium seating and is located in the art building in the College of Fine Arts on the corner of East 23rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard in Austin, Texas.

The program was inaugurated with the commission of David Ellis's Animal, which will be on view throughout December 2011. The commission represents the first work of video art to be acquired by the university's growing public art collection.

2011/12 SEASON

SEPTEMBER 2011
Pipilotti Rist, I'm a Victim of This Song, 1995

OCTOBER 2011
Josephine Meckseper, 0% Down, 2008

NOVEMBER 2011
Nam June Paik and John Godfrey, Global Groove, 1973

DECEMBER 2011
David Ellis, Animal, 2010

JANUARY 2012
Mike Kelley, The Banana Man, 1983

FEBRUARY 2012
Sigalit Landau, DeadSee, 2005

MARCH 2012
Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978–79

APRIL 2012
Jenny Holzer, Televised Texts, 1990

MAY 2012
John Pilson, Mr. Pick Up, 2001

JUNE 2012
Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975

JULY 2012
Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard, Double-Blind, 1992

AUGUST 2012
Kalup Linzy, Conversations Wit de Churen V: As da Art World Might Turn, 2006


For more information about Landmarks, visit www.landmarks.utexas.edu.



Contact:
Leah Griffin (512) 495-4315, lgriffin@austin.utexas.edu
Leslie Lyon (512) 475-7033, leslie.lyon@austin.utexas.edu