The McKinney Avenue Contemporary will host the Video Association of Dallas, the organization behind the annual Dallas VideoFest, and its new production The Dallas Medianale in January and February of 2015.
The Dallas Medianale will consist of installations, screenings, and intermedia performances in the galleries and black box theater of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, showcasing the work of internationally renowned artists working in film and video. These works will range from iconic works of early video art to immersive performances with radical repurposing of obsolete video technology. We will revisit pioneers of early computer films alongside bleeding-edge experiments in moving images and interactivity. Artists featured in the various exhibitions and events will include Bruce Nauman, Joe Sola, Francis Alÿs, Gary Hill, Owen Kydd, John Whitney, James Whitney, Jennifer Reeder, Kyle Evans and James Connolly of Cracked Ray Tube, Sean Miller, Liz Larsen of LZX Industries, William Sarradet, Andrew Blanton, and may more.
Dallas Medianale website: http://www.c-cyte.com/Dallas_Medianale_2015/
Dallas Medianale Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-Medianale/
Dallas Medianale YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdGqeDmIMB48Ctnhl82154A
January 17th – Opening of first exhibition of installations in the MAC’s galleries (3120 McKinney Avenue) 5:30pm – 7:30pm
CALL AND RESPONSE
Curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Danielle Avram Morgan
Francis Alÿs
Gary Hill
Owen Kydd
Bruce Nauman
Tara Merenda Nelson and Gordon Nelson
Joe Sola
Micah Stansell
Call and Response is part of the Dallas Medianale, January 9 – March 7, 2015
Curators:
Charles Dee Mitchell is a freelance writer. Locally he has been a contributor to The Dallas Observer and The Dallas Morning News, and he is a frequent contributor to Art in America. He has written essays for exhibitions at The Dallas Museum of Art, The Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art, The UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, and many other commercial and non-profit exhibition spaces. In 2008 he retired from Half Price Books, Records, and Magazines, where he was Executive Vice President of New Media Purchases and Proprietary Publishing. He is president of the board of the Dallas literary organization WordSpace. He is also active on the Dallas Video Festival board. Read Dee’s Blog at www.potatoweather.blogspot.com
Danielle Avram-Morgan is a curator and writer based in Dallas specializing in photography and video art. She was previously manager of The Power Station in Dallas and a curatorial assistant for the Photography Department at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. She has worked with artists such as Martin Parr, Alec Soth, and Matias Faldbakken, and organizations such as SPE, Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Photolucida, among others. She holds and MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
