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Free Video Screening at Van Brunt Gallery
On Saturday, October 13 at 9pm, the public is invited to attend a free video screening event at Van Brunt Gallery, 460 Main Street in Beacon. The onehour program is called First Person Video, and it features the work of eleven contemporary artists, all of whom have placed themselves in front of the camera to create their art.
This program has been curated by Robert Ladislaus Derr and Marcy B. Freedman in order to explore the implications of an artist's decision to appear in his or her own video. Performing for the lens, these artists use themselves as subject to comment upon political, psychological, philosophical, social and artistic issues.
Many of the artists in First Person Video invite viewers to suspend their notions of conventionality and normalcy in order to tune in to the more quirky, poetic, and sometimes, disturbing sides of life. Both Mr. Derr and Ms. Freedman are video artists themselves, and they have included examples of their own work in the program. Like many of the works in First Person Video, Freedman's Duchampian Logic and Derr's Labor can be seen as reflections of the life of the contemporary artist, with all of the attendant challenges, obstacles, dangers, and frustrations. Taken as a whole, First Person Video demonstrates the wide range of concerns that are tackled by today's video artists. From the humorous to the serious, this program includes videos of great diversity, which are, nevertheless, united by their reliance upon the presence of the artist to establish a connection with the viewer. Each work in First Person Video reveals the artistic mechanisms which move art from the first person to the second person, from me to you, from artist to audience.
For further information, please contact Marcy B. Freedman at (914) 271-5891 or mbf@bestweb.net. Or Carl Van Brunt at (845) 838-2995 or carl@vanbruntgallery.com
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