Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 - Art Video Lounge ‘ Honey, I Rearranged the Image…! ’, Curated by Rike Frank

This year’s Art Video Lounge, curated by Rike Frank with the title “Honey, I Rearranged the Image…!” presents an extensive overview of the latest work in video art by some of the most exciting international artists working today. The video program in the Botanical Gardens consists of six programs, each running twice a day, and is accompanied by special screenings and an exhibition with two photographic works by Ines Schaber and Dorit Margreiter. 

The title refers to the installation “Honey, I Re-arranged the Collection While You Were Gone” (1999) by Allen Ruppersberg. Dating predominantly from the past few years, the works presented are contextualized by a few selected art-historical positions. The selection targets the recent interest of artists in investigating how images operate and how they construct our understanding of the world, and how artistic production can be used to intervene in current narratives. The genres called on by the artists - such as Harun Farocki, Sean Snyder, Bonnie Camplin, Yael Bartana, Roman Signer, Keren Cytter and Omer Fast - extend from documentary and essayistic formats to performance and re-enactment.

The works in the accompanying exhibition by Ines Schaber and Dorit Margreiter focus upon documentary strategies, and the presence, absence and circulation of images. While “Paramount Studio” by Dorit Margreiter presents the empty interiors of the Paramount Studio, in the expectation of the next film production, Ines Schabers series “Picture Mining” show us the environment in Boyers, Pennsylvania, the home of Corbis, one of the biggest image archives of the world, as well as a series of photos by Lewis Hine (1874-1940) that were aquired by Corbis, documenting the “Labour at Cold Mines.”

Additional artist videos, submitted by the exhibiting galleries of Art Basel Miami Beach can be viewed at the public’s convenience in the Videotheque.

 Art Video Lounge Schedule at  www.artbaselmiamibeach.com