Cecille R. Hunt Gallery: Friday, 28 August 2009
HUNT GALLERY
The Unobserved World
AUGUST 28 – SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Friday, AUGUST 28, 2009: Screening: 6:32pm-6:47pm Reception: 6pm-8pm. Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am – 4pm or by appointment.
The Hunt Gallery is pleased to present The Unobserved World, an exhibition where the gallery will function as a laboratory for an experiment that will ultimately bring together elements of documentation, performance, and video while pushing curatorial boundaries. The Unobserved World poses the age-old question to its potential audience: If a tree falls in a forest, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
By way of limitation and documentation, The Unobserved World will either answer the commonsense answer as yes, it did happen and there were a few people there to see it or prove the metaphysical answer as no, because I didn't go to the Hunt Gallery to witness the tree falling, so therefore it doesn't exist! This project also hopes to create a conceptual vibration by poking fun at the possibility of its unperceived existence; it is not the absence of "artwork," the sound of a tree crashing to the ground or the taste of cold beer that should be considered, but rather the absence of awareness of objects and personal physical perception of these events.
The film recorded during the course of the project will generate a new video using only the imagery from the viewers and their reaction to what they have witnessed, which is to specifically highlight the ephemeral nature of performance and event and the sound it makes through observation, participation and experience.
Video by Robert Goetz, Daniel McGrath and Sherman S. Sherman,
Syllabus: video series
Alex Gene Morrison
August 28-September 25, 2009
The Unobserved World
AUGUST 28 – SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Friday, AUGUST 28, 2009: Screening: 6:32pm-6:47pm Reception: 6pm-8pm. Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am – 4pm or by appointment.
The Hunt Gallery is pleased to present The Unobserved World, an exhibition where the gallery will function as a laboratory for an experiment that will ultimately bring together elements of documentation, performance, and video while pushing curatorial boundaries. The Unobserved World poses the age-old question to its potential audience: If a tree falls in a forest, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
By way of limitation and documentation, The Unobserved World will either answer the commonsense answer as yes, it did happen and there were a few people there to see it or prove the metaphysical answer as no, because I didn't go to the Hunt Gallery to witness the tree falling, so therefore it doesn't exist! This project also hopes to create a conceptual vibration by poking fun at the possibility of its unperceived existence; it is not the absence of "artwork," the sound of a tree crashing to the ground or the taste of cold beer that should be considered, but rather the absence of awareness of objects and personal physical perception of these events.
The film recorded during the course of the project will generate a new video using only the imagery from the viewers and their reaction to what they have witnessed, which is to specifically highlight the ephemeral nature of performance and event and the sound it makes through observation, participation and experience.
Video by Robert Goetz, Daniel McGrath and Sherman S. Sherman,
Syllabus: video series
Alex Gene Morrison
August 28-September 25, 2009
Webster University – Visual Art Studios
8342 Big Bend Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri, 63119
314.968.7171
art@webster.edu
www.websterhuntgallery.blogspot.com
8342 Big Bend Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri, 63119
314.968.7171
art@webster.edu
www.websterhuntgallery.blogspot.com
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