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Fri, Jan 18, 2008
7:00 PM

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Declassified: Recent Videos by Erik van Lieshout, Dave McKenzie, and Haegue Yang

Film/Video
 
Multimedia available  

Devoted to presenting recent video works from around the world, “Declassified” reflects the immediacy of the form by offering a venue for challenging new works. This month featured works that explored narrative, diaristic structures thereby revealing the parameters or motivations of the artists’ respective practices. Total running time 77 minutes.

Erik van Lieshout in collaboration with Core van der Hoeven
Homeland Security, 2007
HDV transferred to DVD (color, sound); 26 minutes
Courtesy the artist

Dave McKenzie
Present Tense, 2007
HDV transferred to DVD (color, sound); 23 minutes
Courtesy the artist

Haegue Yang
Squandering Negative Spaces, 2006
Video (color, sound); 28 minutes
Courtesy the artist and Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin

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Erik van Lieshout in collaboration with Core van der Hoeven
Homeland Security, 2007
HDV transferred to DVD (color, sound); 26 minutes
Courtesy the artist

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Dave McKenzie, Present Tense, 2007

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Dave McKenzie, Present Tense, 2007

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Dave McKenzie, Present Tense, 2007

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Haegue Yang, Squandering Negative Spaces, 2006

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Haegue Yang, Squandering Negative Spaces, 2006

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Haegue Yang, Squandering Negative Spaces, 2006

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Erik van Lieshout in collaboration with Core van der Hoeven, Homeland Security, 2007

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Erik van Lieshout in collaboration with Core van der Hoeven, Homeland Security, 2007

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Dave McKenzie

Born 1977 in Kingston, Jamaica, Dave McKenzie graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, P.S.1 National Studio Program, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He presented solo exhibitions at the Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Small A Projects, Portland; Gallery 40000, Chicago; and Savage Art Resources, Portland. His work has also been included in PERFORMA 07, New York; "Freestyle," Studio Museum in Harlem; Queens International, Queens Museum of Art; "24/7," Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; and "Listening to New Voices," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City. In 2005, McKenzie was the recipient of the William H. Johnson Prize and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. He lives and works in Brooklyn.


Erik van Lieshout

Erik van Lieshout (born 1968, Deurne, the Netherlands) studied at Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, ’s-Hertogenbosch, and at Ateliers ’63, Haarlem. Recent exhibitions include a survey exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; solo projects at the Hammer Museum and Mass MoCA; Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Populism, CAC Vilnius, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and the Stedelijk Museum; the Fourth Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006); and the 2006 Gwangju Biennale. In 2003 van Lieshout presented a special installation and video for the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.


Haegue Yang

Haegue Yang (born in 1971, Seoul, Korea) received her B.F.A. from Seoul National University, Fine Arts College, and her Meisterschüler from Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her recent solo exhibitions and projects include Foxed in the Forest, Gallery dépendance, Bruxelles, Belgium and Remote Room, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin. Yang’s exhibitions include Brave New Worlds at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (2007); Sao Paulo Biennal, (2007); and Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, (2002). She currently lives and works in Seoul and Berlin.