Before projection : video sculpture 1974-1995 / Henriette Huldisch.

Munich, Germany : Hirmer ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2018.

143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

"This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995, organized for the MIT List Visual Arts Center by Henriette Huldisch and on view from February 8 to April 15, 2018."

This book shines a spotlight on a body of work in the history of video art that has been largely overlooked since its inception. The exhibition explores connections between our current moment and the point at which video art was transformed dramatically by the entry of large-scale, cinematic installation into the gallery space. It presents a reevaluation of monitor-based sculpture since the 1970s and serves as a tightly focused survey of works that have been rarely seen in the last twenty years. The exhibition catalogue focuses on the period after very early experimentation in video and before video art's full institutional arrival - coinciding with the wide availability of video projection equipment - in the gallery and museum alongside painting and sculpture. Proposing to examine what aesthetic claims these works might make in their own right, the exhibition aims to resituate monitor sculpture more fully into the narrative between early video and projection as well as assert its relevance for the development of sculpture over the course of the 1980s in general. Exhibition: MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA (8.2. - 15.4.2018).

Video sculpture 1974-1995

English

September 28, 2018

Includes bibliographical references.

Video art > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.

MIT List Visual Arts Center, host institution.