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I AM THE MEDIUM features
videos by eight prominent contemporary artists, installed across
nine UCSB Venues. Using their own body as an object, these
artists explore the charged themes of identity, ritual, mortality
and self-sacrifice. For instance, in Small
Things End, Great Things Endure (2001), Dutch artist
Mathilde ter Heijne uses film stunts to set herself on fire, thus
exploring the voyeuristic drama of sacrificial suicide. In another
work, the 2001/2003 Official Welcome, American artist
Andrea Fraser strips while reciting trite and conceited welcome
speeches, to unveil the pompous hypocrisy of art institutions.
The exhibition also includes works by Franko B., Mona Hatoum, Katarzyna
Kozyra, Ana Mendieta, and Gillian Wearing.
EXHIBITION TOURS, daily 12:00, 1:00, and 3:00 PM. Meet at the
Student Resource Bulding, information desk. FREE AND OPEN TO
THE PUBLIC.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC GUIDED
EXHIBITION WALKS AND SELF-GUIDE MAPS AVAILABLE
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The exhibition coincides with Missed
Martyrdoms, an interdisciplinary symposium looking into the
historical resonance of contemporary body art.
The
exhibition is curated by Noa Turel (nturel@umail.ucsb.edu)
and Mary McGuire (mmcguire@umail.ucsb.edu),
two graduate students in the Department of History of Art and Architecture,
UCSB.
I AM THE MEDIUM is organized by Mary McGuire and Noa Turel (History of Art), and Bethanie Petersen (History). Faculty advisors: Professors Ann Jensen Adams and Laurie Monahan.
The series is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Visiting Artist program and the department of History of Art and Architecture. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by the Arts Library, Department of History of Art and Architecture, German Slavic and Semitic Studies, Instructional Development, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Media Arts and Technology Program, the UCSB Multicultural Center, University Art Museum, University Center, and the Women’s Center.
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