From boxing, ping-pong, and golf to water polo, football, and tennis, this screening charts a century of formalist interventions into sports-media imagery. Featuring works by pioneering video and media artists such as Nam June Paik and Lillian Schwartz, this program highlights the many different ways that artists make images, from multiple exposure, hand-altered Super 8, and stop-motion animation to video-game graphics and animated GIFs.
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Program
Ottomar Anschütz, Pferd und Reiter Springen über ein Hindernis (Horse and Rider Jumping Over an Obstacle), 1888, 30 sec.
Charles Dekeukeleire, Combat de Boxe (Boxing Match), 1927, 7:30 min.
Ivan Ladislav Galeta, TV Ping Pong, 1978, 2 min.
Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Golf, 1957, 1:30 min.
Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Water Pulu 1869 1896, 1988, 9 min.
Takashi Ito, Spacy, 1981, 10 min.
Markus Scherer, O.T., 2013, 4 min.
Lillian Schwartz, Olympiad, 1971, 3 min.
Nam June Paik, Lake Placid ’80, 1980, 4 min.
Ashley Hans Scheirl and Ursula Pürrer, Super-8 Girl Games, 1985, 3 min.
Karen Luong, Bubka, 2018, 1 min.
Ana Hušman, Football, 2011, 15 min.
Jon Bois, The Breaking Madden Super Bowl: The Conclusion, 2015, 5 min.
Tintin Cooper, Kiss, 2015, 1 min.
Program length: 65 min.
Screening on Loop in the Bentson Mediatheque
Wednesday–Sunday, October 16–20
Guy Kozak, The Game Becomes More Civilized, 2015, 5 min.
Also Available in the Mediatheque
Pamela Belding, Ritual, 1979, 9 min.
Bios
Astria Suparak’s cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues made accessible through a popular culture lens, such as science-fiction movies, rock music, and sports. Her work as an artist has been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and ArtScience Museum, Singapore. She has curated exhibitions, screenings, and performances for the Liverpool Biennial, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Kitchen, and Expo Chicago, as well as for such unconventional spaces as roller-skating rinks, sports bars, and rock clubs. Based in Oakland, California, Suparak is the winner of the 2022 San Francisco Artadia Award.
Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker, curator, and writer living in Oakland, California. His creative and scholarly practice reframes dominant narratives about sports and illuminates new perspectives and histories. Kashmere’s films and videos have screened at the BFI London Film Festival, Milano Film Festival, Kassel Documentary Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Photography, UnionDocs, CROSSROADS, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. He is executive director of Canyon Cinema Foundation, founding editor of INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, and co-editor of Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! Kashmere holds a PhD in film & digital media from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Accessibility, Content, and Sensory Notes
Sensory note: The film Spacy, which is 20 minutes into the program, contains flickering light. Audience members are welcome to leave the cinema and return. The film is 10 minutes.
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