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Exhibition Dates
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February 17th 2015
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Exhibition Title
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Mot Juste: Distracted Wreading [From Structural Film to Digital Poetics]
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Overview
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A celebration of text and language in contemporary visual arts
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Celebrating the humanities and the newly renovated Karp Hall, the Mandeville Gallery presents a three-part exhibition exploring intersections between the humanities and the visual arts during winter term 2015. The show features contemporary artists working in video, drawing, installation, film, bookmaking, photography and printmaking.
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The Mandeville Gallery is extremely grateful for the co-sponsorship of Mot Juste from the Modern Languages and Literature Department, the English Department, and the Schaffer Library, which has made this project and the related project programming possible.
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This multimedia event and discussion seeks to explore the linguistic turn art has taken since the 1960s when language became a primary material for artists in such movements as Pop, Fluxus, Minimalism and Conceptualism. At the same time that artists began exploring language as medium, a new appreciation of the materiality of language fueled unparalleled experimentation in literature and poetry.
Tony Cokes, artist and Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, will present and discuss his video work. In addition, there will be media stations presenting additional word films by avant-gardists, structural filmmakers, and contemporary video artists including Peggy Ahwesh, D.A. Pennebaker, Hollis Frampton, Mona Hatoum, Tan Lin, Paul Sharits, Michael Snow and Brian Kim Stefans.
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Curated by
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Jenelle M. Troxell, Assistant Professor of English
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Place(s) Exhibited
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Karp Hall
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Reception & Other Events
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February 17th, 2015
6:00 - 8:00 pm
At the Nott Memorial
