Oct. 7 - Feb. 12
"Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach examines and highlights key moments from the video program at the Long Beach Museum of Art between 1974 and 1999, and organizations and individuals who collaborated with the Museum. Some thirty international artists whose work was exhibited at LBMA during this time will be on view, and programmed are four screening events that celebrate the LBMA video studio and honors its Videonights. Two of the screening events are scheduled to take place at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), in partnership with California Institute of the Arts, a long-time supporter of video art and collaborator with Long Beach Museum of Art.
Selected artists for Exchange and Evolution include: Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Klaus vom Bruch, Robert Cahen, Tony Cokes, Juan Downey, Ed Emshwiller, Vera Frenkel, Thomas Allen Harris, Gary Hill, Nan Hoover, General Idea, Mako Idemitsu, Sanja Ivekovic, Joan Jonas, Shigeko Kubota, Thierry Kuntzel, Victor Masayesva, Jr., Bjorn Melhus, Antoni Muntadas, Ko Nakajima, Marcel Odenbach, Nam June Paik, Lisa Steele, Turppi Group (Marikki Hakola, Lea Kantonen, Pekka Kantonen, Jarmo Vellonen, Martti Kukkonen), Edin Velez, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, and Bill Viola. The exhibition and screening series is curated by Kathy Rae Huffman and Nancy Buchanan.
The 1970s and 1980s were an extremely active period for video in Long Beach: by the 1990s the Museum's profile expanded and its studio production facility flourished. The studio attracted artists from all over the world. On the West Coast, LBMA's facility was one of the first such media art centers, with a focus on artists' needs which in turn nurtured the development of the medium. Starting in 1978 it offered on-site performance space, technical assistance, broadcast-quality cameras, post-production equipment, and exhibition opportunities. The LBMA was one of a handful of institutions worldwide that specialized in video as an art form.
This exhibition will recover the dialog from this dynamic era and show how a small but energetic regional museum became a world-known institution, because of its passionate support for video. The Exchange and Evolution advisory committee, made up of artists and curators, brings together decades of artistic, historical, and critical expertise and experience working with the Museum. This committee will support the undertaking of the exhibition and its public program by reaching out nationally and abroad, extending research efforts, helping connect with the international archives and institutions who worked in collaboration with the Museum, and re-establishing the many links in the worldwide network of artists engaged in video.
A publication, with essays by Norman Klein, Erika Suderburg, Gloria Sutton, Wulf Herzogenrath and David Ross, as well as curatorial texts by Kathy Rae Huffman and Nancy Buchanan will be available for the exhibition. All artists' works in the exhibition will be fully illustrated. The publication, screenings and exhibition are a remarkable resource for faculty and students of modern and contemporary art, film-TV-digital-media studies, and international studies, among others.
The Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive is now housed at the Getty Research Institute. It contains some of the earliest examples of video preserved in original formats (it numbers over 5,000 tapes). The videotapes, artist files, and exhibition records were transferred from LBMA to the Getty Research Institute in 2006. They are now secured, maintained in archival condition, and available to researchers by appointment."
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