credits: Ciprian Toma
Runway spill #2 by Alex Mirutziu in New York // Moving Image Art Fair, 2011
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Alex Mirutziu, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, David Wojnarowicz at Moving Image New York
Alex Mirutziu -Runway spill #2 (video still) / 2011
Moving Image, an art fair of contemporary video art, will take place March 3-6, 2011, during the Armory Show in New York and within walking distance of Independent. Located in the the Waterfront Tunnel event space between 27th and 28th Streets with an entrance on 11th Avenue in Chelsea, Moving Image will be free to the public and open Thursday - Saturday, March 3-5, 11-8 PM and on Sunday, March 6, 11-3 PM. An opening reception for Moving Image will take place Thursday, March 3, 6-8 PM.
Moving Image has been conceived to offer viewers a unique viewing experience, providing a rich program of time-based work from around the globe by today's most important and exciting new artists.
SABOT (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) features Alex Mirutziu’s videos. Using social consciousness and political information as fodder for open dialogue, this Romanian artist bridges the gap between form and communication. Each video is a temporal study delicately illustrating the emotional weight associated with social and political life. These films come to life through tears, volatile distortion, and isolation.
Moving Image was conceived by Edward Winkleman and Murat Orozobekov of New York's Winkleman Gallery and co-organized with Penny Pilkington and Wendy Olsoff of New York's P·P·O·W gallery.
Object-Orientation: Bodies and/as Things - exhibition with works by Alex Mirutziu
Artists:
Joseph Barbaccia, Nicole Belle, Melanie Bonajo, Brian Bress, Justin Cole, Monica Duncan, Jessica Harrison, Candice Lin, Samantha Magowan, Max Maslansky, Alex Mirutziu, Yuval Pudik, Macha Suzuki, and Suzanne Wright
WHEN:
February 1 - March 10, 2011
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 3-7 p.m.
Gallery Hours
Day: Monday - Thursday, from 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Evening: Tuesday - Wednesday, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Cerritos College Art Gallery, 11110 Alondra Blvd., Norwalk, CA 90650
The fourteen contemporary artists participating in Object-Orientation: Bodies and/as Things, at the Cerritos College Art Gallery explore a multiplicity of relational transactions and/or transformations between human bodies and the objects that extend, limit, inhabit, and surround them. In so doing, they directly, and/or indirectly, surface current body discourse, particularly the examination of the concept of the body-as-medium (i.e. the organized body in a state of continuous construction and reconstruction, oscillating between holism and fragmentation).
Through drawings, photographs, and videos, as well as mixed-media sculptures/assemblages, bodies (often those of the artists themselves) are presented in various states of articulation with, and/or through, material fragments of the natural/urban environment.
Some artists in the exhibition focus on the disturbing practice, especially in an image-obsessed culture, of the body-as-a-commodity (ie. a 'project' to be 'worked on'), but others seek to purposely lose their subjective egos, at least temporarily, through a process-of-becoming 'pure' object, performatively emulating inanimate, or at least immobile, things. While a few artists revel in the sensuous patterns of pop-cultural consumption, others reveal bodies conspicuously weighed down by those same objects of capitalist consumerism.
Not surprisingly, then, given this context, more than a few artists explore gendered/sexed power relations historically associated with scopophilia and the body-as-thing. In presenting personal and societal anxieties regarding an alienated body-in-pieces, many of the artists resort to hiding the intimacy of the human face, typically through an auto-topographic surrogacy of objects, while leaving the body itself very much exposed. Some artists actually allude to a speculative agency for objects, literally 'skinning' household things or cloaking the human body in a kind of textured camouflage, as if having been infected by the leaky patterning of adjacent objects. Whatever the circumstances, whether the objects (re)presented are anemic or abundant, the works are always held together by the unavoidable, though often unavailable, presence of human flesh and/or human form.
Rehearsal for liberated staging of "When love melted cavalries in our hearts" - Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich // January 2011
Installing "Critique on how temples move faster than their shadows" at Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
When I have been working in residence at EIRA33 and ZDB - Ze Dos Bois Lisbon, this year for the creation of "When love melted cavalries in our hearts" which was supported by ColectivA - Cluj and Miki Braniste, I've produces a work that stood still like a split second in incomplete stunt, drawing on a neo-romantic paradigm where the experience does not happen while reading the work, its not about what happens on the paper, rather walking away from it.
I've been priviledged to access the best equipment, progressive eloquent designed props and Hollywood studio lights for this unique theory immersed performance - "Critique on how temples move faster than their shadows", hosted by the splendid Mihai Nicodim Gallery - L.A. to give a complete new perspective of this fabulous engagement.
Today I will perform on the humanity of a terrible love; a shared architecture, muscled by words and rude liberty, about ‘fixing of the body’ over the exterior milieu, with the heart poised above the gut, a constructed metaphor for the staticism of love, that sometimes you just have to tell the whole world about it.