Shadows, Circles and Fire at Art Basel Miami Beach

TONIGHT – Friday December 7 at 8pm / 9pm / 10pm

ART VIDEO NIGHTS at Art Basel Miami Beach

For the outdoor screenings at the New World Center, David Gryn of Artprojx has selected eight programs running over four nights.

Location: New World Center, SoundScape Park, 500 17th Street, Miami Beach
Admission to Art Video Nights is FREE.

Friday December 7 at

8pm – Shadows, Circles & Fire
Forward, backward, repetition, circles and spirals: these films move in their own particular ways through space and time, emphasizing the transitory and the fleeting.

Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (SA BA DA BA), 2011, 1’29” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
Guy Ben-Ner | Foreign Names, 2012, 4’48” | Konrad Fischer Galerie
Cao Fei | Shadow Life, 2011, 10′ | Lombard Freid Gallery
Mircea Cantor | Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, 2012, 3’43” | Yvon Lambert
Andrea Bowers | Shadows (Aztec Dancers at Protest March, Los Angeles, 2011), 2012, 5’05” | Susanne  Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Praz-Delavallade, Andrew Kreps Gallery
Rashaad Newsome | Shade Compositions (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Preview), 2012, 25′ | Marlborough Gallery
Daniel Arsham | Tearing up the Museum, 2011, 2’16” | Galerie Perrotin

9pm – Laughing, Wondering & Meditating
Young men posing amid traffic in the Chinese city of Guangzhou; a fictional factory that produces canned laughter for sitcoms; a rickety elevator in a building where odd things happen. The films in this program explore different kinds of strangeness, ranging from works embracing unexpected encounters, to humor, anxiety and madness.

Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (BIM BOM), 2006, 47” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
Julieta Aranda | Springtime, 2010, 1’23” | Galería OMR
Melanie Smith | Elevador, 2012, 7’49” | Galeria Nara Roesler
Sam Samore | Glossary of Delusions, 2010, 6′ | Team Gallery
Dineo Seshee Bopape | The Problem Of Beauty, 2009, 7’19” | Stevenson
Julika Rudelius | Rituals, 2012, 14′ | Galerie Michael Janssen
Theaster Gates | Sun Salutation, 2011, 4’41” | Kavi Gupta Gallery
Yoshua Okon | Canned Laughter, 2009, 9’56” | Mor Charpentier
Jordan Wolfson | Untitled, 2007, 3′ | Johann König

10pm – Spirit, Breath & Air
This program begins with breath, but also touches on the visual and the tactile, with explorations of everyday life, locations and objects.

David Zink Yi | Pneuma, 2010, 1’23” | Hauser & Wirth, Johann König
Chen Xiaoyun | Bi, 2007, 5’30” | ShanghART & H Space
Sam Samore | Archipelago of Enigmas, 2012, 16′ | Team Gallery
Hu Xiangqian | The labor song I night, 2012, 7’12” | Long March Space
Pierre Bismuth | Following the left hand of Jacques Lacan, 2012, 5′ | Team Gallery
Eija-Liisa Ahtila | Fishermen (Etudes, no. 1), 2007, 5’40” | Marian Goodman Gallery
Jumana Manna | Blessed Blessed Oblivion (censored), 2010, 23′ | CRG Gallery
Nate Boyce | Reliquary House (excerpts), 2011, 2’58” | Altman Siegel

Waltzing, Driving and Reflections at Art Basel Miami Beach

TONIGHT – Thursday December 6 at 8pm and 9pm

ART VIDEO NIGHTS at Art Basel Miami Beach

For the outdoor screenings at the New World Center, David Gryn of Artprojx has selected eight programs running over four nights.

Location: New World Center, SoundScape Park, 500 17th Street, Miami Beach
Admission to Art Video Nights is FREE.

Thursday December 6 at 8pm – Universal, Dreams & Anthems 

Animation blends with live-action, fiction with history, the earthly and the sublime. The program concludes with a grand finale: an unusual rendering of the American national anthem.
Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (BADA DIDI), 2006, 58” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
Drew Heitzler and Sam Sharit | ZERO, 2012, 2’30” | Blum & Poe
Josiah McElheny | Island Universe, 2005-08, 19′ | White Cube
Daniel Steegmann Mangrane | 16mm, 2008/11, 4’52” | Mendes Wood
Pedro Reyes | Baby Marx TV Series (Episode 1: On Surplus Value), 2011, 7’04” | Labor
Ruben Ortiz Torres, Emmanuel Lubezki | Como TV, 1985, 3’31” | Galería OMR
David Zink Yi | Huyano y fuga detras, 2005, 3’43” | Johann König; Hauser & Wirth
Chen Xiaoyun | Love You Big Boss, 2007, 4′ | ShanghART & H Space

Thursday December 6 at 9pm – Waltzing, Driving & Reflections
Dancing, driving, flying through the air: in one way or another, the films in this section feature movement as a formal device or a theme, with a nod to the history of the cinema and the history of music.

Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (DIBA DUDA), 2006, 55” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
David Adamo | Anniversary Waltz, 2007, 3’54” | Ibid
Jesper Just | Sirens of Chrome, 2010, 12’38” | James Cohan Gallery, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Galerie Perrotin
Jack Early | What to do with a drunken sailor?, 2011, 5’44” | McCaffrey Fine Art
Takeshi Murata and Billy Grant | Night Moves, 2012, 6’01” | Salon 94
Terence Gower | New Utopias, 2010, 17′ | Labor
Susanna Wallin | Echo Park, 2012, 2′ | Courtesy of the artist
Sefer Memişoğlu | Breeze, 2011, 8’18” | NON
Michael Sailstorfer | Raketenbaum, 2007, 1’30” | Johann König

also today

ART SALON at 4pm

Artist Talk | The Poetics of Enchantment
Jesper Just, Artist, New York. in conversation with David Gryn, Curator of Art Video, Founder of Artprojx

http://www.artprojx.com

Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 – Art Video Nights

http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/2012-programming-and-events/

Art Video Nights

Running from December 5 to 8, Art Video Nights will showcase 60 film and video works on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in SoundScape Park. Presented by participating galleries of Art Basel Miami Beach, the program features works by artists including Julieta Aranda, Daniel Arsham, Guy Ben-Ner, Theaster Gates, Jesper Just, Mauricio Lupini, Ryan McGinley, Rashaad Newsome, Robin Rhode, Sam Samore, Adam Shecter, and Hu Xiangqian. Art Video Nights will also feature a special dusk-to-dawn screening of the 12-hour long film Bliss by Ragnar Kjartansson, presented by Art Basel in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) North Miami and the New World Center on Saturday, December 8 at 6pm. Art Video is organized in association with David Gryn, Director of London’s Artprojx.

www.artbasel.com/videonights

www.artprojx.com

See the full e-flux announcement

http://www.facebook.com/artbaselmiamibeach/events

http://www.fadwebsite.com/2012/11/26/art-video-nights-at-art-basel-miami-beach-2012/