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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:14:26 -0500 From: Terri Smith <terris@cheekwood.org> To: amcgee@virtualidentity.org Subject: Searching for African-American Video Artists Dear Art McGee, I am curating the upcoming video show at Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville, TN) and would like to feature videos by African-American artists and/or about African-American topics. I saw your name on the Race for Digital Space website and thought you might have some suggestions. I am in the last phase of my research and am trying to receive sample reels no later than the end of the first week of August. The exhibition opens in early October. The installation galleries were formerly horse stalls (each room is 9x10 feet), so I am primarily looking for single-channel projected videos and/or works on monitors that are up to three channels. Each artist would contribute one work. The videos are shown on a loop all day. So,generally shorter videos work well (under 15 minutes). But if he has longer videos that don't rely too heavily on chronological order -- in other words you can walk in on the video at any time and "get" it -- those work well in these spaces too. A little background on our shows: Since 1998, Cheekwood has curated two original video exhibitions each year. Each exhibition features one work by 6 artists. The Installation Galleries exclusively house new media art (mostly video). With two, five-month-long shows each year, Cheekwood Museum of Art is the only venue in Nashville (and probably the Southeast) that exhibits video art year- round. Each stall contains one piece of art. Artists who have shown in the installation Galleries include: Janine Antoni, Janet Biggs, Patty Chang, Gary Hill, Emily Jacir, Amy Jenkins, William Kentridge, Paul Pfeiffer, Pipilotti Rist, Bill Viola, and Zhang Huan. Exhibition themes have included geographic associations (video artists from New York, Chicago and Southeast) as well as shows featuring Animation and artists who alter space (or our idea of it). The exhibition that is currently on view is titled Neither Here Nor There: Video Artists Navigate Cultural Displacement. Here is a link if you want to read a recent review of that show. http://nashvillescene.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?story=This_Week:Arts:Art Over the last five years, even with this variety of themes and locations, I am unaware of having a video by an African-American artist come to me from a gallery or word of mouth. With other media, I don't seem to encounter this phenomenon. Galleries are often passing information about talented African-American photographers, painters, sculptors etc for my Temporary Contemporary Gallery shows. (Kerry James Marshall, Kojo Griffin, Terry Adkins and Radcliffe Bailey are a few artists we've shown here in the past five years in our Temporary Contemporary series.) This disparity between most media and video inspired me to feature African - American video artists (and subjects) in our fall show -- which is rapidly approaching. Feel free to pass this e-mail onto anyone you think may be interested in submitting a DVD or VHS to be considered for the show. To learn more about Cheekwood Museum of Art, you can visit www.cheekwood.org. Those interested can mail materials to Terri Smith, Cheekwood Museum of Art, 1200 Forrest Park Drive, Nashville, TN 37205. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call 615-353-6995 or e-mail. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Terri Smith Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Cheekwood Museum of Art 1200 Forrest Park Drive Nashville, TN 37205 615-353-6995 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net