LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images
Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), 2013, v. 2, no. 2, pp. 273-280
Erika Balsom delves into the modes of curating in contemporary art trhough a review of the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images. Balsom discusses what role the contemporary film curator entails, and praises Thomas Beard and Ed Halter's curating of Luther Price films as a profound engagement, which unfolds aesthetic experience. She questions a contemporary phenomenon – the rise of "propositional curatorial programs" – and criticizes its tendency to privilege the authorial touch of curators over the vision of artists. Balsom gives an example: Martha Kirszenbaum's program in the Biennial uses artists' work to merely reiterate the tropes of body as commodity and obscures their work's individual merit in the process. However, Balsom advocates that "propositional curating" doesn't have to be rigid if it allows for multiple lines of entry into the programming, such as the programs devised by Ben Rivers, Michelle Cotton and Shanay Jhaveri.
ITEM 2013.159 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Little Stabs at Happiness – Mark Webber
Nine Films by Luther Price – Bridget Crone/Plenty Projects
Puce Moment – Picture This, Electra and Tramway
Plunderer's Dream – Luther Price
Premier Reve d'Oskar Fischinger (Part One and Part Two) – Kenneth Anger
The Galactic Pot Healer – Agnieszka Polska
The Twilight Zone, The After Hours – Isabelle Cornaro
Schweppes Ad – Shana Moulton
Call of the Wild – George Barber
Venice – Spartacus Chetwynd
The Games: Olympic Variations – Anthea Hamilton
A Voyage on the North Sea – Michel Auder
The Strife of Love in a Dream – Marcel Broodthaers
Brancusi's Sculpture Ensemble at Tirgu Jiu – Camille Henrot
Black and White Trypps Number Two – Paul Sharit
Colour Flight – Ben Russell
The Sleepers – Len Lye
Textile and Ornamental Arts of India – Mark Lepore
Franz and paulina – Ray and Charles Eames
We, The Living – Ute Aurand
Story of History – George Kuchar
I Thought It Was You – Emily Roysdon
Ryan McNamara