curated by_vienna 2010: Tony Oursler

These artists live in the wake of the lapsed cinematic. That is to say, simply, that the linear spectacle of classical, cinematic narrative has expired. Erik Aalto, Martin Murphy and J.D. Walsh, are unique in their endeavor to find new meaning in the syntax of installation and moving image, finding themselves at the forefront of both art and cinema in this “Lapsed Cinematic” moment. A characteristic that seems to separate them is their insistence on putting the viewer at the center of the experience. The artists are comfortable navigating this subjective hall of mirrors, created by the viewer’s projected desires. These artists are willing to validate this aspect of human nature, thus mining a new paradigm for the moving image. Aalto invites the viewer to enter his cryptic, yet pop-cultural schematic installation, which traces the interaction between three characters embodied in the abstract forms of a pyramid, circle and square. Murphy is concerned with culturally shared memory and epistemological perceptions of time, exemplified by his work in which one moment of an automobile accident is extruded into an endless moment. Walsh captures a “synaesthetic system between the sound and the image” as he is "tuning meaning" through his dexterous editing and collapsing of visuals, gesture and sound.

Tony Oursler Tony Oursler, geboren 1957 in New York, lebt und arbeitet in New York. 1979 California Institute for the Arts, B.F.A.; 1977 Gründung der Punk-Band „Poetic” mit seinen Freunden Mike Kelley und John Miller. Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl): Kunstmuseum Bonn; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum, New York; Tate Liverpool; Konsthall Stockholm, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthaus Bregenz. Der Video-Sound- und Installationskünstler Tony Oursler ist bekannt für seine Videoprojektionen auf plastischen Objekten mit theatralischen Monologen. Seine Themen kreisen um psychologische, seelische und körperliche Zustände des Menschen.

curated by_vienna 2010: Tony Oursler
Lapsed Cinematic

Künstler: Erik Aalto, Martin Murphy, J.D. Walsh