LOOP Talks 2017: Beryl Korot in conversation with Neus Miró
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- Speakers
- Beryl Korot and Neus Miró
- Language
- English
As an in-depth contribution to the “contemporary archaeology of video” prompted by the Festival, this year’s edition of the Talks provided a current reading of early video art. Eminent pioneering artists conversed with curators of peer and younger generations, so to establish formal and conceptual connections between the past and present and explore the influence of avant-garde artistic proposals on contemporary production.
Artist Beryl Korot and curator Neus Miró began by recalling the emergence of video at the end of the 1960s, while discussing the widespread access to the medium in the 1970s. Korot then discussed the foundation of the artists led magazine Radical Software in 1970, the acces to information technology and television, before delving into her own practice. Beginning with the description of Dachau 1974, also exhibited at LOOP, she talked about multi-monitor and multi-channel installation as an alternative to the television format, her experimentations with video and fabrics, as well as her fascination for music, a major component in her works.
Beryl Korot
- Artist, Speaker
1945, New York
Beryl Korot (New York, 1945) is a pioneer of video art whose work brought video technology into conversation with the ancient hand loom. Co-founder and co-editor of Radical Software (1970), her work has been exhibited at The Kitchen (1975), Leo Castelli Gallery (1977), Documenta 6 (1977), the Whitney Museum (1980, 2000 and 2002), The John Weber Gallery (1986),The Carnegie Museum (1990), The Reina Sofia (1994), ZKM (2008), The Aldrich Museum (2010), bitforms gallery, NYC (2012), The Whitworth Gallery, UK (2013), Museum Abteiberg (2013), Art Fair Basel, ICA Boston, Tate Modern (2014), and SFMOMA (2016). Two collaborations with Steve Reich (The Cave, 1993, and Three Tales, 2002) brought video installation art into a theatrical context and continue to tour worldwide. In 2010 The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT presented a 6 month mini retrospective of her work. She is in the permanent collection of NY MOMA and in The Kramlich Collection’s New Art Trust shared by SFMOMA, NY MOMA and the Tate Modern, amongst others. She currently lives and works in New York.
20 April 2017
Neus Miró
- Curator, Participant, Speaker
Neus Miró is a curator and art critic. She studied Art History (Universitat de Barcelona) and obtained the M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art (London). She now works as a Curator in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery (UK) and is pursuing doctorate studies at Central Saint Martins College (University of the Arts, London).
Her area of research has focused on artistic practices in film and video. Her most recent curatorial projects include participation on the curatorial team of Apología/Antología. Journeys through video in the Spanish context (Hamaca, 2016), Insomnia (Fundació Joan Miró, 2013), Sharon Lockhart: Doble Tide (Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, 2012) and Urban Fictions (Koldo Mitxelena, 2011).
She is the author and editor of various publications including “Insomnia” (Fundació Joan Miró, 2012), “Perejaume. Imágenes proyectadas” (CAB, 2010) and “Impasse 8: La exposición como dispositivo. Teorías y prácticas en torno a la exposición” (La Panera, 2008).
She has served as a visiting professor at several universities: Escuela Superior de Diseño-ESDI (Universitat Ramon Llull), MECAD, International University of Catalonia and Universidad de Zaragoza. She currently lives and works in Wolverhampton (UK).
20 April 2017