Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach 1974-1999 features twelve installations and eighteen different weekly screenings. The weekly screenings take place in the Lane Oceanview Gallery according to the following schedule. For detailed information about these artists and screenings, the exhibition catalogue is for sale in the Museum Store. You may also order your catalogue online by following the links below.
Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach examines and highlights key moments from the video program at the Long Beach Museum of Art between 1974 and 1999, and organizations and individuals who collaborated with the Museum. Some thirty international artists whose work was exhibited at LBMA during this time will be on view, and programmed are four screening events that celebrate the LBMA video studio and honors its Videonights. Two of the screening events are scheduled to take place at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), in partnership with California Institute of the Arts, a long-time supporter of video art and collaborator with Long Beach Museum of Art.
Selected artists for Exchange and Evolution include: Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Klaus vom Bruch, Robert Cahen, Tony Cokes, Juan Downey, Ed Emshwiller, Vera Frenkel, Thomas Allen Harris, Gary Hill, Nan Hoover, General Idea, Mako Idemitsu, Sanja Ivekovic, Joan Jonas, Shigeko Kubota, Thierry Kuntzel, Victor Masayesva, Jr., Bjorn Melhus, Antoni Muntadas, Ko Nakajima, Marcel Odenbach, Nam June Paik, Lisa Steele, Turppi Group (Marikki Hakola, Lea Kantonen, Pekka Kantonen, Jarmo Vellonen, Martti Kukkonen), Edin Velez, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, and Bill Viola. The exhibition and screening series is curated by Kathy Rae Huffman and Nancy Buchanan.
The 1970s and 1980s were an extremely active period for video in Long Beach: by the 1990s the Museum's profile expanded and its studio production facility flourished. The studio attracted artists from all over the world. On the West Coast, LBMA's facility was one of the first such media art centers, with a focus on artists' needs which in turn nurtured the development of the medium. Starting in 1978 it offered on-site performance space, technical assistance, broadcast-quality cameras, post-production equipment, and exhibition opportunities. The LBMA was one of a handful of institutions worldwide that specialized in video as an art form.
This exhibition will recover the dialog from this dynamic era and show how a small but energetic regional museum became a world-known institution, because of its passionate support for video. The Exchange and Evolution advisory committee, made up of artists and curators, brings together decades of artistic, historical, and critical expertise and experience working with the Museum. This committee will support the undertaking of the exhibition and its public program by reaching out nationally and abroad, extending research efforts, helping connect with the international archives and institutions who worked in collaboration with the Museum, and re-establishing the many links in the worldwide network of artists engaged in video.
A publication, with essays by Norman Klein, Erika Suderburg, Gloria Sutton, Wulf Herzogenrath and David Ross, as well as curatorial texts by Kathy Rae Huffman and Nancy Buchanan will be available for the exhibition. All artists' works in the exhibition will be fully illustrated. The publication, screenings and exhibition are a remarkable resource for faculty and students of modern and contemporary art, film-TV-digital-media studies, and international studies, among others.
The Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive is now housed at the Getty Research Institute. It contains some of the earliest examples of video preserved in original formats (it numbers over 5,000 tapes). The videotapes, artist files, and exhibition records were transferred from LBMA to the Getty Research Institute in 2006. They are now secured, maintained in archival condition, and available to researchers by appointment.
Long Beach Museum's Collaborative Press Release(opens in a new window)
Exchange and Evolution Exhibition Press Release(opens in a new window)
Above artwork from top to bottom: Bill Viola (American, b.1951), Hatsu-Yume (First Dream), 1981, Single-channel color video with sound, Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, New York; Marina Abramovic/Ulay (Abramovic, Serbian, b.1946; Ulay, German, b.1943), City of Angels, 1983, Single-channel color video with sound, Courtesy the artist, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Bjorn Melhus (Norwegian, b. Germany 1966), Again and Again (The Borderer), 1998, Color video installation with sound on 8 monitors, Courtesy Kunsthalle Bremen and the artist - Collection of Kunstverein Bremen, Germany
During the exhibition time period, the Long Beach Museum of Art will present four video screenings for Exchange and Evolution. Two of the screenings will be held at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), a center for experimentation, discovery and lively civic discourse at CalArts in Los Angeles and two screenings will be held in Long Beach. Program curators and participating artists will be present for the screenings.
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 8-9:30 PM
Art Theatre, 2025 E. 4th Street, Long Beach, 90804
With a focus on visual development, this selection of film and video, including Oskar Fischinger, John Whitney Sr., Bill Viola, Max Almy/Teri Yarbrow, Janice Tanaka, Rebecca Allen, Michael Scroggins, Ko Nakajima, Sheila Pinkel, Ed Emshwiller, and Frank Dietrich/Zsuzsanna E. Molnar, will be screened and discussed with participating artists. Co-hosted by lead curator Kathy Rae Huffman and artist Bill Viola.
Monday, October 24, 2011, 8:30 PM
REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), 631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, 90012
Works by Wendy Clarke, Lowell Darling/Ilene Segalove, Juan Downey, Sandra Kogut, Azian Nurudin, Terese Svoboda, and Nil Yalter/Nicole Croiset explore the anthropological gaze. Introduced by curator Nancy Buchanan, co-presented by California Institute for the Arts.Thursday, November 17, 2011, 7-10 PM
Claire's at the Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art
LBMA Video collaborated with numerous artists and institutions during its influential history. This informal program, served up at 'happy hour', will feature an edited survey of Soho TV and the Artists' Television Network, as well as works by Alex Rivera, Peter Callas, Dieter Froese, and Tina Keane. Co-hosted by Kathy Rae Huffman and Jaime Davidovich (via streaming video).January 27/28, 2012, 8 PM
SciArc, 960 Third Street, Los Angeles, 90012
A site specific performance installation by Sandro Dukic, will be featured in RE:COMPOSITION, Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time (K-PST), an online arts resource and series of performances presented by ICANetwork.org. Visit k-pst.org for further details.Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 8:30 PM
REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, 90012
Wide-ranging celebration of the power of sound, with short works by Max Almy, Laurie Anderson, Toni Basil/David Byrne, Dara Birnbaum, Claus Blume, Doris Chase, Cecelia Condit, Tom DeWitt/Vibeke Sorensen/Dean Winkler, Kit Fizgerald/John Sanborn, Philip Mallory Jones, Ernie Kovacs, MICA-TV, Cynthia Maughan, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Henry Selick, and Bob Snyder. Introduced by curator Nancy Buchanan, co-presented by REDCAT and CalArts.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
A tour of the Long Beach Museum of Art, Museum of Latin American Art and University Art Museum at CSULB will take place on Sunday, December 4, 2011. All three Long Beach museums are taking part in Pacific Standard Time. This day will include curator tours of the exhibitions, special programming and FREE admission at all three Long Beach museums.
This special day is part of the South Partners Focus Weekend for Long Beach and Orange County. To learn more about what Orange County museums are doing on Saturday, December 3,
Pacific Standard Time South Schedule(opens in a new window)
To learn more about the bus tours and schedule of programs for Long Beach on Sunday, December 4,
Long Beach Focus Day Schedule(opens in a new window)
A publication, with essays by Norman Klein, Erika Suderburg, Gloria Sutton, Wulf Herzogenrath, and David Ross, as well as curatorial texts by Kathy Rae Huffman and Nancy Buchanan is available in the Museum Store and online. All artists' works in the exhibition are fully illustrated. The catalogue is available in hard cover for $45 and soft cover for $35. Shipping and handling charges may apply.
Order online by selecting the appropriate catalogue below, call the Museum at 562-439-2119, or visit the Museum Store during regular operating hours. Museum members receive a 10% discount, which will apply to the final sale. If you prefer to be invoiced, use our fax/mail form.
Educator-guided adult tours are available for groups of 10 to 15. Please submit your request three weeks prior to your requested tour time by email or through our online tour request form. Tours are available after 12 p.m. on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Groups of 10 to 15 can schedule self-guided visits. Write, "self-guided" in the program title on the request form. Self-guided groups may not enter the Museum before 11 a.m. Tours are only available Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Fill out our online tour request form.
A Self-Guided Group Registration Form will be required for all visits, you can download the form here and submit it to the Visitor Services Staff at the front desk at the time of your visit.
Pacific Standard Time is a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, which are coming together for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene and how it became a major new force in the art world. Each institution will make its own contribution to this grand-scale story of artistic innovation and social change, told through a multitude of simultaneous exhibitions and programs. Exploring and celebrating the significance of the crucial post-World War II years and beyond, Pacific Standard Time encompasses developments from modernist architecture and design to multi-media installations; from L.A. Pop to post-minimalism; from the films of the African-American L.A. Rebellion to the feminist happenings of the Woman's Building; from ceramics to Chicano performance art, and from Japanese-American design to the pioneering work of artists' collectives.
Initiated through $10 million in grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time involves cultural institutions of every size and character across Southern California, from Greater Los Angeles to San Diego and Santa Barbara to Palm Springs. To learn more about Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 click here.
Pacific Standard Time Flier (opens in a new window)
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