Got it on Tape!
FotoFocus 2024
FLAG Studio presents Got it on Tape!
Camp Washington
September 27, 2024–November 1, 2024
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Got it on Tape focuses on lens-based video works as technology continues to evolve, innovate, and innovate again. This exhibition invites artists from across the globe to present work first recorded over 20 years ago in an attempt to preserve the translation of ideas into emerging forms in ways that parallel new technology. Each artist highlights their past work by translating it into the present through re-recording, projection, spoken word, performance, and physical or virtual screenings.
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The curated show of video art advises viewers to exercise caution before all of the first-wave video art caught on tape goes the way of the dodo. For every one Pipilotti Rist or Bill Viola, there were a thousand explorative art school kids who made their creativity explode on tape. Invited artists collaborate on installation style to exhibit the video works in their analog, original format alongside modernized digital format.
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Artists: Mel Chin, Joe Girandola, Ian Hayes, Rae Miller, Greg Pond, Dan Reidy, Wendy Taylor-Reidy, Jenny Vogel
Curator: Joe Girandola, Founder
"COLLECTING AND RECEIVING"
October 1, 2022–October 31, 2022
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In the exhibition, Collecting and Receiving, the works of Mohammed Kazem and Cristiana de Marchi reflect on the memory of collecting and receiving light in architectural and urban settings across the globe. Internationally recognized in the field, both artists created new works for this exhibition, reflecting on a globally-connected cultural economy drastically altered through the global pandemic. The exhibition also features response artworks by FLAG studio artists Joe Girandola, Dan Reidy, and Linnea Gartin.
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Mohammed Kazem (b. 1969, Dubai) studied painting as a teenager at the Emirates Fine Art Society, Sharjah, and music in the early 1990s at Al Rayat Music Institute, Dubai. In 2012, Kazem received an MFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. A conceptual artist who has worked closely with his mentor, artist Hassan Sharif, Kazem uses overlooked remnants of the everyday, from construction flags to chewing gum, to measure and navigate global transformations.
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Cristiana de Marchi (b. Italy) is a visual artist and writer who lives and works in Beirut and Dubai. She received her MFA with honors in Archaeology from The University of Turin, Italy and previously completed her Bachelors with honors in Humanities from the same university. De Marchi works with video and textiles as her preferred medium to explore issues related to identity, displacement, belonging and the porous borders that separate regions while allowing contact.
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Artists: Larry Collins, Cristiana de Marchi, Linnea Gartin,
Joe Girandola, Mohammed Kazem, Dan Reidy, Jeremy Schulz
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Curator: Joe Girandola
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