Azorro, Anna Niesterowicz,
and Piotr Wyrzykowski
New
Video, New Europe
May 31 – June 30,
2006
Photo:
Anna Niesterowicz, HH
(video still), 2002
New
Video, New Europe
is a
survey exhibition of recent video work by more than three dozen
artists from 16 Eastern European countries stretching from the Baltic
through the Balkans, including Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the
Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova,
Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Organized by Hamza
Walker, Curator and Director of Education at the Renaissance Society
at the University of Chicago, the show includes 43 works reflecting a
variety of genres and approaches, ranging from autobiographical and
documentary to surreal fantasy and experimental formalism. The works
are divided up and presented as five discrete programs focusing on
different themes – such as the residual resonances of war, ethnic
tensions, and issues of national identity – or common sensibilities,
such as a self-deprecating humor that relates to anxieties about
joining the European Union.
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