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Kreider + O鈥橪eary show video work in 16 public spaces across Sweden

7 September 2015

Kreider + O鈥橪eary video

Bartlett Lecturer James O鈥橪eary鈥檚 practice Kreider + O鈥橪eary have been selected by Tate Curator Marianne Mulvey to exhibit work at a group show entitled 鈥淎rchitecture, Performance, Materials鈥 on 16 Video-stations in public spaces throughout Sweden from September 3rd until December 17th, 2015.

VideoGUD is a collaboration between art and film units in the counties of G盲vleborg, Uppsala and Dalarna in Sweden.听 The network aims to make current video art accessible to all, by commissioning video projects for display on its video stations located at libraries, schools, health care facilities, museums and cultural centers throughout the country.

For this exhibition, Kreider + O鈥橪eary exhibit a 9 minute video work entitled 鈥楲A Tapped鈥, recorded in Los Angeles in 2010 and edited for this exhibition in 2015.听 鈥楲A Tapped鈥 is a spatial enactment of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown LA. Here Kreider + O鈥橪eary perform the building as per philosopher Frederic Jameson鈥檚 reading of it 鈥 as a model of postmodern architecture and an allegory for the logic of late capitalism. The video documents a recurring tap dance routine, performed at various locations throughout the Bonaventure including elevators, walkways, conference spaces, service areas, shops, elevated running track and outdoor pool. The tapping sound solicits a response from the architecture, providing a nuanced reading of the materiality of the various spaces encountered. As the performance proceeds, the sound recorded in the Bonaventure is fused with sound sampled from John Pilger鈥檚 film 鈥楾he War We Did Not See鈥 exposing the enmeshment of representations of our built environment with the logic of late capital, and the systematic violence that this logic upholds and reinforces.

Participating Artists:

Kreider + O鈥橪eary - LA Tapped
Kihlberg + Henry - The Order of Things
Aura Satz - Onomatopoeic Alphabet
Laura Cooper - Divine Intervention & Spinning Ritual
Tamarin Norwood - New Felt Tips & Keeping Time

Curator:

鈥淎rchitecture, Performance, Materials鈥 is curated by Marianne Mulvey - Tate Curator of Public Programmes.听



(in Swedish)

(in Swedish)

This exhibition is funded by the Swedish Arts Council

Image: Production Still from Kreider + O'Leary's 'LA Tapped'