ATC Lecture: From A to B and Back Again, Candice Breitz October 19, 2009

Should an art audience be suspicious of works of art that open themselves up to popular cultural content? Do explorations of screen life affirm or undermine the commodity structure of mainstream entertainment? Are copyleft strategies legitimate or objectionable? How is the artist's relationship with the subjects that she kidnaps as found footage or those she films herself in studio settings mediated by the technological display formats?

Candice Breitz will field such questions and speak about her recent works, including 'Working Class Hero (A Portrait of John Lennon)' and 'Mother,' two multi-channel video installations that are currently on view in a monographic exhibition of her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The artist will have video footage on hand from most of the installations that she has made over the last decade. The open format will allow participants to steer Breitz towards talking about particular works that they would like to discuss.

This event is co-presented with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Biography:

Candice Breitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1972 and is currently based in Berlin. She holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum's Independent Studio Programme and ran the Palais de Tokyo's Le Pavillon residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a tenured Professor of Fine Art at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig since 2007. A museum-scale survey of her work is currently running at The Power Plant in Toronto until late 2009. The catalogue published parallel to the exhibition contains an essay by Berkeley scholar Anne Wagner. Breitz will participate in the Performa Biennale in New York in November 2009.

http://www.candicebreitz.net

Free.

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