Fiona Tan: Correction

Fiona Tan's Correction will be the first commission presented at the New Museum as part of the Three M Project, a consortium between the New Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, to commission and exhibit new works of art by emerging international artists.

In Correction, Tan uses video portraiture to explore stereotypes and representation by filming approximately 300 prison inmates and guards in four U.S. facilities. Each forty-second portrait features an anonymous inmate or guard standing as still as possible in front of the camera as they are filmed framed from the waist up, a reference to the Amerikanische Einstellung (the American shot) technique used in Hollywood in the 30's, 40's and 50's. The intense focus of her camera's gaze turns each prisoner from an anonymous statistic into a distinct individual.

Fiona Tan: Correction is part of a series of commissioned works organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Generous support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation and the American Center Foundation.

Fiona Tan: Correction also received support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and The Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York. The exhibition catalogue is supported in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

The New Museum of Contemporary Art receives general operating support from the Carnegie Corporation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affiars, JPMorgan Chase, and members of the New Museum.

TRANSMISSION II: AIRBORNE April 9 - June 4, 200

Fiona Tan: Correction