What happens when the smoke clears?
One of the most remarkable sights
was the mass movement of people, on foot, along highways usually reserved
for motorized traffic. The Brooklyn & Manhattan bridges, as well as
the FDR Drive, which runs along the East River from lower to upper Manhattan,
became human rivers with an unhurried but steady flow & no end in
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in honor of media art's eternal
regeneration, here's a sweet 16 of some more dynamite works from 2003:
Amy Goodrow:
Tape 5925 (Eileen Maxson), Learning Stalls: Lesson Plans (Torsten Z.Burns & Darrin
Martin), Security Anthem (Kent
Lambert), My Minute
Beats Your Year (Devin Flynn),
Untitled (Violence) (Seth
Price), The Stairway at St.Paul's (Jeroen Offerman), Travel Songs 1967-1981
(Jonas Mekas), An Injury to One (Travis Wilkerson), After Wegman (Anne
McGuire), Scumrock (Jon Moritsugu), American
Dreams #3 (Moira Tierney), Ich Bin
Eine Manipulator (Andrew Jeffrey Wright & Clare Rojas), Film
Sketches (Shannon Plumb), The Magic Kingdom (Jim
Trainor), Final Flesh (PFFR), Inflated:the
Blow-Up Doll Films of Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins
- The 5th Annual Village
Voice Film Critics' Poll
- Ed Halter - December 2003
Moira Tierney
en American Dreams 3 graba la huida de los neoyorquinos cuando
se desmoronan las torres gemelas.Atraviesan el puente de Brooklyn despavoridos
con una nube de polve al fondo. Una masa en blanco y negro que se difumina
en sus contornos. Ella tambien recurre al documento apara poner carne,
lagrimas y desolacion a un sueno que se viene abajo, cuyos pies nunca
han sido tan de barro - Blanco
y Negro Cultural, 18 September 2000
The gnawing question raised by "Ce qui
arrive..." (What happens ... , officially translated as "Unknown Quantity"),
the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier conceived
by technology theorist Paul Virilio and cocurated by Leanne Sacramone,
is how this trial run for Virilio's prospective "Museum of Accidents" could possibly have fixed on the destruction of the World
Trade Center as the exemplary case. Yet at the core of this show, labeled "The Accident," five extemporaneous
recordings of the event by Tony Oursler, Moira Tierney, Jonas Mekas, and Wolfgang Staehle established an
unequivocal center of gravity that pulled ineluctably
on thirteen similarly shrouded black-box film installations selected,
one can only imagine, less along the lines of intrinsic interest or quality
than of brute homeomorphism: smoke (Peter Hutton), explosion (Bruce Conner,
Cai Guo-Qiang), demolition (Dominic Angerame), anomie (Peter Hutton, Jem
Cohen). Although the images of September II could easily have been snipped
from the audiovisual continuum that Virilio has so frequently vilified,
they nonetheless plugged into (if not to say exploited)
our inchoate ideas and active anxieties about terrorist networks and imminent
geopolitical upheaval--not accidents
- Artforum February 2003 |
