Chloe Wise & Claire Christerson, Greece, 2015, 3′, courtesy of the artists
Our Hidden Futures
Film: Art Basel announces 2015 program for Miami Beach
Curated by David Gryn, Daata Editions and Artprojx
– ART BASEL PRESS RELEASE MIAMI BEACH | OCTOBER 23 | 2015
From December 2 through 6, 2015, Art Basel will present a premier program of over 50 films and videos by and about artists selected under the title ‘Our Hidden Futures’. Screened on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center, the program is again curated by David Gryn, Director of Daata Editions and London’s Artprojx.
First-time Art Basel film curator Marian Masone, Senior Programming Advisor at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York has selected the feature-length film ‘Troublemakers – The Story of Land Art’ (2015) by filmmaker James Crump for a special screening at the Colony Theatre on Friday, December 4.
Gryn’s program of film and video works, drawn from the show’s participating galleries, will include work by Ida Applebroog, Anna Barham, Breda Beban, Janet Biggs, Sue de Beer, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Barbara Hammer, Shirazeh Houshiary, Jaki Irvine, Anna K.E. & Florian Meisenberg, Jumana Manna, Howardena Pindell, Cauleen Smith, Catherine Sullivan, and Marnie Weber.
Every evening, in addition to the Film program, sound works by Sofie Alsbo, Alice Jacobs, Mariele Neudecker and Camille Norment will be presented on the state-of-the arts surround sound system in SoundScape Park, curated by David Gryn. In conjunction with the outdoor film screenings, over 80 works have been selected to be shown within a designated Film Library at the Art Basel fair, whose Lead Partner is UBS.
Returning for his fifth year with Art Basel, curator David Gryn’s selection of works for Film will explore the history and future path of moving image artworks. Framed under the title ‘Our Hidden Futures’, the lineup will highlight an international selection of emerging and established artists, encompassing a range of moving image works that illustrate the breadth of these various analogue and digital mediums.
On Saturday, December 5 at 2pm, Art Basel’s Salon program will feature ‘The Artists
Surround Sound Project’ a talk between Art Basel film curator David Gryn and the artists
Sophie Alsbo, Alice Jacobs, Mariele Neudecker and Camille Norment. Art Basel
entry tickets include admission to the Salon.
For the full list of films featured at Art Basel in Miami Beach in 2015, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/film
– GENERAL INFORMATION
Daily (December 2 – 6)
Miami Beach Convention Center Film Library
In conjunction with the outdoor program, over 80 selected works will be presented on six touch-screen monitors within the Film Library at Art Basel’s show during show hours. Access with a show entrance ticket.
Nightly (December 2 – 5)
SoundScape Park Evening Film Program
Outdoor screenings will take place in SoundScape Park on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center, a three-minute walk from the Miami Beach Convention Center. Admission to Film at SoundScape Park is free. Visitors are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs.
Every evening from 6pm to the start of the first film screening, sound works by different artists, curated by David Gryn, will be presented in SoundScape Park: Weds, Dec 2: Mariele Neudecker / Thurs, Dec 3: Sofie Alsbo / Fri, Dec 4: Camille Norment / Sat, Dec 5: Alice Jacobs. Free public access, seating is limited – bring a blanket or lawn chair.
– 2015 FILM PROGRAM
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6pm | Sound work
Mariele Neudecker, Figure of 8 (Rainforest, Ecuador, sound recorded at height: 1.39m, 9.78m, 22.59m, 30.79m and 37.26m), 2015, Galerie Barbara Thumm
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8pm | Short Film program | Fairy Doll
Running time approximately 58’; selected by David Gryn
The 2015 Film program will open with a selection of short works in which artists focus on a single portrait to draw out the nuances of what it means to be human.
Rineke Dijkstra, Marianna (The Fairy Doll), 2014, 19’13”, Marian Goodman Gallery
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, The Countermand, 2014, 9’48”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Carla Chaim, Lua Certa, 2011, 1’03”, Galeria Raquel Arnaud
Anna K.E. & Florian Meisenberg, Late Checkout (Part II), 2015, 9’58”, Simone Subal Gallery
Anna Maria Maiolino, Um Momento, Por Favor, 1999/2004, 4’30”, Hauser & Wirth
Howardena Pindell, Free, White and 21, 1980, 12’15”, Garth Greenan Gallery
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9pm | Short Film program | Speak Easy
Running time approximately 78’; selected by David Gryn
‘Speak Easy’ will consider the artistic use of the creative, the audience, and the allure of the arena, the theater and the theatrical to explore the unsaid or unsayable.
Simone Leigh & Liz Magic Laser with Alicia Hall Moran, Breakdown, 2011, 9’46”, Tilton Gallery
Jumana Manna, A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade), 2013, 12′, CRG Gallery
JoAnn Verburg, Watching Trisha Brown, 2015, 2’40”, Pace/MacGill Gallery
Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega, Aztec Stadium. Malleable Deed, 2010, 10’29”, Sicardi Gallery
Marinella Senatore, Speak Easy, 2009, 15′, Peres Projects
Catherine Sullivan, Triangle of Need (Olympian and Doves), 2007, 8’22”, Metro Pictures
Ann-Sofi Sidén in collaboration with Jonathan Bepler, Curtain Callers, 2011, 20′, Galerie Barbara Thumm
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Thursday, December 3, 2015
6pm | Sound work
Sofie Alsbo, Close Encounter, 2015, , courtesy of the artist
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9pm | Afterward Via Fantasia
Catherine Sullivan with George Lewis and Sean Griffin, Afterword via Fantasia, 2015, 60ʹ, Metro Pictures
Catherine Sullivan’s film, ‘Afterword Via Fantasia’, is conceived within the framework of an opera written by composer George Lewis and co-directed by Sullivan and longtime collaborator Sean Griffin. Sullivan transposes material from Lewis’s libretto into a series of scenes shot on sets for other plays with parallel and divergent social and cultural themes. The opera and film are based on Lewis’s widely-acclaimed book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) and American Experimental Music. The AACM has long played a key role in American experimental music, forging new models of black identity and social activism.
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10pm | Short Film program | Sea of Silence
Running time approximately 56’; selected by David Gryn
Works within ‘Sea of Silence’ reflect on the poetic silence of the absent and, in so doing, create a louder and much more visceral language.
Marnie Weber, Sea of Silence, 2009, 14’15”, Gavlak Gallery / Simon Lee Gallery
Camille Henrot, Million Dollars Point, 2011, 5’35”, Galerie König / kamel mennour
Shirazeh Houshiary, Dust, 2011-2013, 7’08”, Lehmann Maupin
Cauleen Smith, Crow Requiem, 2015, 11′, Corbett vs. Dempsey
Minnette Vári, Quake, 2007, 6’23”, Goodman Gallery
Tracey Emin, Love Never Wanted Me, 2013, 2’48”, Lehmann Maupin
Nikki S. Lee, Yours, 2015, 8’41”, One and J. Gallery
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Friday, December 4
6pm | Sound work
Camille Norment, Toll – Dissonant Image, (Re-mixed and mastered from 2011 version of Toll), 2015, courtesy of the artist
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8pm | Short Film program | Duet
Running time approximately 45’; selected by David Gryn
‘Duet’ will present artworks that embody pairs, the split screen, duos and unions, which are found in the style of the film, the artistic process or within the narrative.
Janet Biggs, Duet, 2010, 6’47”, Cristin Tierney Gallery
Zanele Muholi, Ayanda & Nhlanhla Moremi’s Wedding, 2013, 11’50”, Stevenson
Nicola Thomas, S-time, 2015, 3’53”, courtesy of the artist
Talia Chetrit, Parents, 2014, 9’44, Sies + Höke, kaufmann repetto
Nicola Thomas, Julian in two parts, 2015 2’02”, courtesy of the artist
Sue de Beer, The Blue Lenses, 2014, 19’03”, Marianne Boesky Gallery
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9pm | Short Film program | Snow Job
Running time approximately 62’; selected by David Gryn
Selected works in ‘Snow Job’ use satire to communicate messages that engage and humor us.
Berna Reale, Cantando na Chuva (Singing in the Rain), 2014, 4’15”, Galeria Nara Roesler
Shana Moulton, MindPlace ThoughtStream, 2014, 11’57”, Galerie Gregor Staiger
Mary Reid Kelley, Camel Toe, 2008, 1’25”, Pilar Corrias
Barbara Hammer, Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of Aids, 1986, 7’44”, KOW
Diana Thater, Male Gyr-Peregrine Falcon (Grim), 2012, 30”, Hauser & Wirth
Chloe Wise & Claire Christerson, Greece, 2015, 3′, courtesy of the artists
Ida Applebroog, It’s No Use Alberto, 1978, 9’36”, Hauser & Wirth
Breda Beban, Jason’s Dream, 1997, 10′, courtesy of the artist’s estate & Kalfayan Galleries
Mary Reid Kelley, Swinburne’s Pasiphae, 2014, 8’58’, Pilar Corrias
Judith Hopf, Lily´s Laptop, 2013, 5’29”, kaufmann repetto
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8:30 pm | James Crump, Troublemakers – The Story of Land Art, 2015
Special Film Screening at Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
Running time 72ʹ; selected by Marian Masone
Troublemakers – The Story of Land Art, 2015 unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Focused on a cadre of renegade New York artists that sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest, the film includes rare footage and interviews with artists such as Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria (The Lightning Field) and Michael Heizer (Double Negative). The screening is followed by a panel discussion between the movie’s Director James Crump and Art Basel Film co-curator Marian Masone.
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Saturday, December 5, 2015
6pm | Sound work
Alice Jacobs, The Intent I Owe, 2015, courtesy of the artist
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8pm | Short Film program | Vanishing Point
Running time approximately 58’; selected by David Gryn
‘Vanishing Point’ will feature a selection of artworks which employ kinetic and choreographed movement to investigate the factory, machines, and the futility of war, as well as the demise of manufacturing and its consequences.
Breda Beban, Let’s call it love, 2000, 7’30’’, artist’s estate, Kalfayan Galleries
María Fernanda Cardoso, On the Origins of Art: Maratus Volans, Male and Female, Artists, 2015, 3’13”, Casas Riegner
Janet Biggs, Vanishing Point, 2009, 10’32”, Cristin Tierney Gallery
Fritzia Irizar, Sin título (requiem JMAF), 2015, 4’19”, Arredondo \ Arozarena
Suzanne Harris, The Wheels / Flying Machine, 1973, 5’47”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Anna Barham, The squid that hid, 2015, 5’05”, Galerie Nordenhake
Guan Xiao, Hidden Track, 2015, 4’51”, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler
Susanne M. Winterling, Immersion Vertex (Prototyp Diadem), 2’22”, 2014, Jessica Silverman Gallery
Pia Camil, No A Trio A, 2013, 7’31”, OMR
Cornelia Parker, War Machine, 2015, 9’25”, courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery
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9pm | Bikini Carwash
Running time approximately 52’; selected by David Gryn
The seven works in this program will explore the great outdoors, capturing urban and rural encounters.
Liz Cohen, Bikini Carwash, 2002, 5’58”, Salon 94
Marnie Weber, Songs Hurt Me, 1994, 2′, Gavlak Gallery / Simon Lee Gallery
Jaki Irvine, Se Compra: Sin é, 2014, 17’37”, Kerlin Gallery
Micol Assaël, Overstrain, 2012, 3′, ZERO…
Kristin Oppenheim, Ultramarine, 2015, 7’43”, in collaboration with Don Maclean, 303 Gallery
Cauleen Smith, H-E-L-L-O, 2014, 11′, Corbett vs. Dempsey
Milena Bonilla, Ceremony for a Homogeneous Landscape, 2009, 2’34”, mor charpentier
RELATED LINKS
New World Symphony https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/art-basel-at-soundscape-park/
Artlyst http://www.artlyst.com/articles/art-basel-announces-2015-film-programme-for-miami-beach-fair
ARTnews http://www.artnews.com/2015/10/23/art-basel-miami-beach-2015-announces-film-program/
Artlyst on Talks program http://www.artlyst.com/articles/artists-and-art-professionals-lead-talks-programme-at-art-basel-miami-2015
Buro on Nikki S. Lee http://www.buro247.sg/culture/news/art-basel-2015-program-for-miami-beach.html
– NOTES TO EDITORS
About the Curators
David Gryn
David Gryn is the founder and director of Daata Editions, a new online platform commissioning artists video, sound and web editioned artworks and director of London’s Artprojx, screening, curating, promoting and lecturing on artists’ moving image and other art projects, working with leading contemporary artists, art galleries, museums, art fairs, art schools and film festivals worldwide.
Marian Masone
Marian Masone is a film curator, lecturer and writer based in New York. For over 20 years Masone has worked at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, America’s pre-eminent film organization. She sits on the selection committees for two of The Film Society’s most prestigious festivals: ‘The New York Film Festival’ and ‘New Directors/New Films’, a co-production with the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Masone has been a guest lecturer and curator for leading institutions such as Parsons School of Design in New York and Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Her writings on film and media have appeared in many leading newspapers and magazines.
About Art Basel
Art Basel stages the world’s premier art shows for Modern and contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. In addition to ambitious stands featuring leading galleries from around the world, each show’s exhibition sectors spotlight the latest developments in the visual arts, offering visitors new ideas, new inspiration and new contacts in the art world.
Partners
UBS, global Lead Partner of Art Basel, has supported the organization for more than 20 years. As Art Basel’s global network has expanded, so too has UBS’s commitment and lead partnership, which includes all three shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. In addition to its support of Art Basel, UBS has a long and substantial record of engagement in contemporary art: as a holder of one of the world’s most distinguished corporate art collections, as an active partner in global contemporary art projects such as the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and as a source of information and insights through the UBS Art Competence Center, UBS Arts Forum and its new contemporary art news-focused app, ‘Planet Art’.
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Important Dates for Media
Private View
Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 11am to 8pm (by invitation only)
Vernissage
Thursday, December 3, 2015, 11am to 3pm (by invitation only)
Public Days
Thursday, December 3, 2015, 3pm to 8pm
Friday, December 4, 2015, 12noon to 8pm
Saturday, December 5, 2015, 12noon to 8pm
Sunday, December 6, 2015, 12noon to 6pm
Upcoming Art Basel shows
Hong Kong, March 24 – 26, 2016
Basel, June 16 – 19, 2016
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