Private America | 1993-94
New York Stories, curated by Richard Wasko, P.S.1 Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York
Private America consisted of 12 video monitors arranged in a circle with benches. Each monitor acted both as an illuminating device, lighting Ecktachrome Photographs that were held in front of the screen, and as a video screen in which footage of the Vietnam War was projected into a small blank screen in the chrome. Thus the work superimposed a moving image into a still one. The title Private America alluded to the way the suburban home became the isolated vantage point to view the events of the world.
New York Stories, curated by Richard Wasko, P.S.1 Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York
Private America consisted of 12 video monitors arranged in a circle with benches. Each monitor acted both as an illuminating device, lighting Ecktachrome Photographs that were held in front of the screen, and as a video screen in which footage of the Vietnam War was projected into a small blank screen in the chrome. Thus the work superimposed a moving image into a still one. The title Private America alluded to the way the suburban home became the isolated vantage point to view the events of the world.
