Exhibition
Josh Michaels: 24 Hour Empire
7 Jan 2016 – 16 Jan 2016
Event times
January 7 through 16, 2016
Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM to 6PM
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 929 NW Flanders St
- Portland
Oregon - 97209
- United States
Travel Information
- one block from the NW 10th and NW Glisan streetcar stop
This multi-media is an homage to Empire, Andy Warhol’s 1964 durational film. Josh Michaels approached this as an art and science project, asking: How might Andy Warhol have made Empire today?
About
For this exhibition, Josh Michaels creates an elaborate homage to the original Empire, one of Andy Warhol's first durational films. Beginning with a 24-hour durational video, Michaels used that original footage to also create photographs, lenticular prints, multi-channel video installation and interactive video displays. Michaels approached this multi-media project as an investigation, asking: How might Andy Warhol have made Empire today?
Empire was one of the earliest in a series of underground films by Warhol that focused on a single subject for an extended period of time. To create it, Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas spent six and a half hours filming the Empire State Building from the 41st floor of the Time-Life Building one summer night in 1964. These films were unconventional then, but they foreshadowed our current culture of always-on video made popular by the Internet and other readily available technologies. In 2014, Empire celebrated its 50th anniversary, which included screenings in New York and a special silver illumination of the Empire State Building.