Wafaa Bilal presented
"
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an interactive video installation.
Sound by: Lori Talley
Visual Effects: Shawn Lawson
,
offers a visually poetic exposition of United States involvement in
many parts of the world between 1948 and the present. The artist's
intention is to draw attention to origins of the hatred being directed
toward the U.S. government. The work illustrates atrocities committed
by the U.S. military and the C.I.A. against the people of Chile, Él
Salvador, Nicaragua, Korea, Viet Nam, Panama, Iraq, Palestine, and
Afghanistan.
Shawn Lawson contributed animation to an art work
by Jordan Crandall entitled Trigger. http://jordancrandall.com/trigger/index.html
Location:
Henry Urbach Gallery
526 West 26th ST. 10th FL
New York, NY 10001
# 212 627 0974
Description:
Trigger, a new two-channel video work by Jordan
Crandall, continues the artist's investigation of the relationship among
military technologies, forms of seeing, and desire. With a running time
of 18 minutes, Trigger follows two armed men through the shadows of an abandoned
construction site as they hunt one another. Suspended between extremes of
control and danger, the two engage in a tense and hypervigilant dance of
predator and prey. Crandall combines lush 16 mm color film and video from
surveillance cameras and military targeting systems, as well as an eye-tracked
synchronization system that automatically aligns weapons with the human
eye, drawing us into a world where the predatory vision of weapons, the
camera, and the erotic gaze all intertwine.
Projected in Gallery One on two facing walls, Trigger invites viewers to
move through the charged space between opposing images, unable to capture
both sides in a single glance. In Gallery Two, Crandall presents a group
of large video stills as well as a series of more intimate pencil drawings
that diagram the structure of key moments in Trigger.
Wafaa Bilal spoke at Church of Brethren Lombard Mennonite Peace Center. "The message is essential, violence and war will not solve the problem of terrorism and security"
Wafaa Bilal presents video commericals at Frankie
J's Methadome for a Independant Film Video Screening. Shawn Lawson presents
an interactive installation at Frankie J's Methadome.
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Crudeoils presents at the Genesis Art Gallery. Crudeoils has it's solo first show! Wafaa Bilal presented two prints, and Shawn Lawson presented an interactive video installation. Collectively www.crudeoils.us was launched on May 4, 2002 in conjunction with the opening also on May 4th.
Crudeoils presents at 1926 Halsted Crudeoils showed the Mona Lisa at
CODE. March 29- April 14, 2002. Seen below is one of the curators
stamping a "rejected" verdict on crudeoils art work. The
theme of the show being CODE and questioning the process by which
a gallery seemingly randomly decides which work is accepted and rejected.
Just to note of the work submitted by the three curators, two were
accepted and one was rejected.
Crudeoils presents at The Art Institute of Chicago. Crudeoils showed the Mona Lisa at a benefit event at The Art Institute of Chicago on April 26, 2002.