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Regional Exhibits
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 No Sound: New and Rarely Seen Silent Film and Video
Aspen Art Museum
May 23 - July 19, 2009
Public reception: Thursday, July 16 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
(right) Paul Pfeiffer, Morning after the Deluge, 2003
(From the press release)
Beginning May 23, 2009, in the museum’s Upper Gallery, the Aspen Art Museum is proud to present the group exhibition No Sound, a mix of silent avant-garde film, rarely exhibited early video works, and recent film and video moving-image work by three generations of artists working in both Europe and the United States. Silent film and video works create a space unmoored from time and temporal experience. Whether by direct aesthetic choice or technological necessity, the removal of sound pushes the viewer towards an almost hypnotic focus. No Sound includes a number of films and videos that explore stillness, action, and our relationship to the natural and unnatural elements of the world around us, and features work by Doug Aitken, Bas Jan Ader, Marcel Broodthaers, Guy Ben-Ner, Trisha Donnelly, Nancy Graves, Henrik Håkansson, David Noonan, Paul Pfeiffer, and Diana Thater.
On Thursday, June 18, 6:00 p.m., visiting guest John Hanhardt, Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will join AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson for a conversation about the exhibition, and on July 14, at 6:00 p.m., there will be a performance of musical scores to works in the exhibition by Aspen Music Festival and School student composers and musicians under the direction of Sydney Hodkinson, conductor of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. No Sound will be on view through Sunday, July 19, 2009.
No Sound is organized by the Aspen Art Museum and funded in part by the AAM National Council. Exhibition lectures are presented by the Questrom lecture Series.
The Aspen Art Museum is a globally preeminent non-collecting institution that presents the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. Our innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society.
AAM MUSEUM HOURS:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Thursdays 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 6:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays and major holidays
AAM ADMISSION IS FREE courtesy of John and Amy Phelan
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