Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'American Meshuggana,' Begin. Tonight
Museum of the Moving Image presents a new video installation, AMERICAN MESHUGGANA, by the South Korea-based art collective YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. The new work places the duo's signature text-based animations set to an original jazz score on a noirish, continuous black-and-white shot of urban traffic. The 18-minute video, which winds its way from an imaginary Chinese restaurant in Astoria to Nazi-occupied Paris, was commissioned by the Museum. It will be on view in the lobby, as a 50x8-foot-long projection, from May 16 through September 21, 2014 and was organized by Associate Curator of Digital Media Jason Eppink.
"YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES has goaded and seduced viewers, both on- and off- line, for fifteen years with its distinct brand of fast-paced, text-based video works," said Eppink. "AMERICAN MESHUGGANA represents a stunning evolution of its style. This moody daydream about the desire to be someone else is as elusive as it is hypnotic."Press Contact: Tomoko Kawamoto / tkawamoto@movingimage.us / 718 777 6830
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