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artists & participants
Eija-Liisa Ahtila,
Jananne Al-Ani,
Vanessa Beecroft,
Berry Bickle,
Johanna Billing,
Sylvie Blocher,
Elina Brotherus,
Romeo Castellucci,
Chen Chieh-Jen,
Cui Xiuwen,
Johanna Domke,
Juan Manuel Echavarria,
Harun Farocki,
Christoph Girardet,
Julieta Hanono,
Gary Hill,
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler,
Christian Jankowski,
Annika Larsson,
Guy Maddin,
Tracey Moffatt,
Priscilla Monge,
Matthias Müller,
Adrian Paci,
Mabel Palacin,
Walid Raad,
Anri Sala,
Berni Searle,
Alexander Sokurov,
Fiona Tan,
Sam Taylor-Wood,
The Atlas Group,
Salla Tykkä,
Gillian Wearing,
Ingrid Wildi,
Yang Fudong,
Artur Zmijewski
press release
The Screen Eye or the New Image takes the visitor on an intense visual journey through about a hundred videos in the broadest sense - including rare films from cinema, performance and theatre. The Casino Luxembourg’s specially fitted out spaces plunge the visitor into a sensory universe where the image is paramount. The aim of the exhibition is to renew the experience of a medium that has today become central to contemporary art. Curated by Régis Michel, this show is initiated by Casino Luxembourg and realized in cooperation with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucarest, where it will be shown in autumn 2007.
“Video art has long been a major art form. It has even become the major art of our time. But it is too often an invisible art. One can see but glimpses, and the public ignores most of it. That is why it is urgent to show the best of its recent products, which are also the most unknown. The hundred videos displayed were produced during the last ten years by some forty artists of every origin, many of which are women. Some of them are already famous; others are to be discovered through the exhibition’s specific layout, which focuses on the image to the exclusion of everything else. This is not a retrospective, even less an inventory. The choice of works is highly selective, favouring narrative video with political, social or sexual issues.
Matthias Müller Pictures,2002
Each room corresponds to a different world, and the circuit, which is strongly thematic, does not dissociate analysis from affect. This is not a mere exhibition, but an experience – a critical one
The new image, Deleuze said, produces a new eye which might be the screen-eye. It is also the machine-eye peculiar to a society of control ruled by video surveillance, which turns the subject into an automaton, and democracy into deception. The artist’s function, Deleuze says again, is to resist by turning the camera against itself, and the eye against the screen….” (Régis Michel)
A richly illustrated book (190 x 290 mm ; 352 p.), written by Régis Michel, will be published at the opening on 23 March, 7 pm. The english version of this book will be published in September 2007.
only in german
L'OEIL-ÉCRAN OU LA NOUVELLE IMAGE
100 vidéos pour repenser le monde
mit Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Jananne Al-Ani, The Atlas Group / Walid Ra´ad, Ivan Avila Duenas, Vanessa Beecroft, Berry Bickle, Johanna Billing, Sylvie Blocher, Elina Brotherus, Cabello / Carceller, Romeo Castellucci, Chen Chieh-Jen, Cui Xiuwen, Johanna Domke, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Harun Farocki, Julieta Hanono, Gary Hill, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Christian Jankowski, Hernan Khourian, Annika Larsson, Guy Maddin, Tracey Moffatt, Priscilla Monge, Matthias Müller / Christoph Girardet, Adrian Paci, Mabel Palacin, Anri Sala, Berni Searle, Alexander Sokurov, Fiona Tan, Sam Taylor-Wood, Salla Tykkä, Julia Ventura, Gillian Wearing, Ingrid Wildi, Yang Fudong, Artur Zmijewski