Press kit Revisions-Zen for Film, available upon request!




RESEARCH, WRITING, TEACHING, ADVISING
To RSVP: 212.501.3019, academicevents@bgc.bard.edu
11:15–11:25am
Introduction
11:25am–12:00pm
Hanna Hölling
2013-2015 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor, Cultures of Conservation, Bard Graduate Center
Visiting Scholar, MPIWG, Berlin
“Zen for Film: Object, Event, Performance, Process”
12:00–1:30pm
Lunch
1:30–2:05pm
Glenn Wharton
Clinical Associate Professor, Museum Studies, New York University
“Between Objects and Performance: Translating Artworks at the Contemporary Art Museum”
2:05–2:40pm
Hannah Higgins
Professor, Chair of Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago
“‘And to Think that I Saw It!’: A Reperformance Typology”
2:40–3:15pm
Coffee break
3:15–3:50pm
Sarah Cook
Curator, University of Dundee
3:50–4:25pm
Andrew V. Uroskie
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, MA/PhD Program in Modern Art History, Criticism & Theory, Stony Brook University
“Philosophical Toys: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Breer and the Problem of the Moving Image for Institutions of Postwar Art”
4:25–5:30pm
Panel discussion
5:30–6:00pm
Reception
How do works of art endure over time in the face of aging materials and changing interpretations of their meaning? How do decay, technological obsolescence, and the blending of old and new media affect what an artwork is and can become? And how can changeable artworks encourage us to rethink our assumptions of a work of art as fixed and static? Revisions—Zen for Film, on view this fall and winter in the Bard Graduate Center Focus Gallery, explores these questions through Zen for Film, one of the most evocative artworks by the Korean-American artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006). Created during the early 1960s, Zen for Film consists of the screening of blank film leader for several minutes. As the film ages and wears in the projector, the viewer is confronted with a constantly evolving work. Revisions—Zen for Film provides a fresh perspective on an artwork with a rich history of display by asking precisely what, how, and when is Zen for Film?
Developed during a two-year Andrew W. Mellon “Cultures of Conservation” Fellowship at Bard Graduate Center, Revisions—Zen for Film offers a unique and intimately focused encounter with the materiality of Paik’s work. The exhibition is accompanied by a digital interactive with contributions by BGC master’s students and a publication of the same name published by the University of Chicago Press.