© Dara Birnbaum/Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York (www.eai.org)
Damnation of Faust: Charming Landscape
Artist
Dara Birnbaum
(USA, född 1946)
DirectorRegi av
Dara Birnbaum
(USA, född 1946)
ProducerProducerad av
Dara Birnbaum
(USA, född 1946)
Date1987
MediumVideo, color, stereo sound
Dimensions6:30 min
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 1988
Object NumberMOMVi 16
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork
Dara Birnbaum was one of the first to sample TV images in her video works, which reveal how gender roles and hierarchies are perpetuated in popular culture. This video focuses on the conditions for urban man as a social and political creature, from close intimacy to major political movements. The introduction mixes images from the demolition of a playground in Manhattan, with two teenagers reflecting on their childhood. The local is juxtaposed with shots of mass demonstrations and acts of resistance – from the 1960s struggle for civil rights and peace, to the Chinese student protests in the 1980s in Tiananmen Square. Birnbaum started out as an architect and city planner. The urban space also has established structures for possible and permissible interaction.
Description
Producerad i samarbete med New Television WGBH/WNET
Postproduction collaboration: John Zieman, CMX
Kamera: Dara Birnbaum
The Picassos: Keith James & Mike Nolan
Redigering/klipp: Rick Feist, Tom Crawford
Medverkande: Georgann Ditelli, Pam Hysinger
Selected exhibition history
Filmvår! Film och video ur Moderna Museets samling (den 3 mars 2012 - den 22 april 2012)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Implosion. Ett postmodernt perspektiv / A Postmodern Perspective (1987-1988)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues
Implosion : ett postmodernt perspektiv : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 24/10 1987 - 10/1 1988]
