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Dara Birnbaum. PM Magazine. 1982. Four-channel video (color, three channels of stereo sound; 6:30 min.), chromogenic prints, Speed Rail® structural support system, aluminum trim, and painted walls. Dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Modern Women's Fund and the Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art. © 2014 Dara Birnbaum. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris
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James Richards. Not Blacking Out, Just Turning the Lights Off. 2011. Two-channel video (color, sound). 16:15 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery. © 2014 James Richards. Courtesy the artist and Rodeo, Istanbul and London. Installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2011. Photo: Andy Keate
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Ken Okiishi. gesture/data. 2014. Oil and Chroma Key Video Paint on flat-screen televisions, VHS and HD video transferred to .mp4 (color, sound). Left screen: 12:21 min. loop Right screen: 75:13 min. loop. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Generosity of Jill and Peter Kraus. © 2014 Ken Okiishi
Exhibition
Cut to Swipe
11 Oct 2014 – 22 Mar 2015
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:30 – 19:00
- Sunday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Monday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Tuesday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:30 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:30 – 17:30
Address
- 11 West 53 Street
- New York
New York - NY 10019
- United States
Travel Information
- From the east side of Manhattan M1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 to 53rd Street From the west side of Manhattan M50 cross-town to 50th Street. Proceed to 53rd Street.
- From the east side of Manhattan 6 train to 51st Street, transfer to the E or M train; one stop to 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue From the west side of Manhattan E or M train to 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, or B, D, or F train to 47-50 Street Rockefeller Center
About
Cut to Swipe, comprised primarily of recent acquisitions by the Department of Media and Performance Art, features works that appropriate and manipulate images and sound drawn from electronic media like television, cinema, the recording industry, and the Internet. Ranging from Dara Birnbaum’s landmark installation PM Magazine (1982) and Rosetta Brooks's incendiary magazine ZG to recent works by Kevin Beasley, Ken Okiishi, Luther Price, James Richards, Hito Steyerl, and The Otolith Group in collaboration with Chris Marker, the exhibition highlights a range of responses to the quickly changing nature of images, and their proliferation through new imaging and distribution technologies. Carving out a space for personal and political reflection within pervasive streams of information, the works in the exhibition demonstrate the shift from analog to digital concerns, as artists grapple with defining new forms of materiality, and new critical approaches in a radically more virtual world.
Cut to Swipe traces key works, produced since the early 1980s, which have pioneered innovative ways of rearticulating the moving image and appropriated cultural forms within the gallery. If the cut signifies collage and montage, foundational artistic strategies of the 20th century, the swipe suggests a 21st-century condition in which images have moved off the screen, dispersed at the flick of a finger into almost every corner of daily life.
Organized by Stuart Comer, Chief Curator, with Erica Papernik, Assistant Curator, and Leora Morinis, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art.
The exhibition is supported by the MoMA Annual Exhibition Fund.