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| [Nettime-bold] Jordan Crandall: Heatseeking |
Jordan Crandall Heatseeking 11 January - 17 February 2001 opening reception Thursday, 11 January, 6-8pm Sandra Gering Gallery 476 Broome Street, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 (212) 226-8195 sandra@geringgallery.com http://www.geringgallery.com http://www.blast.org/crandall -- An erotic imaginary of technology/body/artillery fusion, composed through visual and rhythmic networks and contoured under the conditions of war. - Jordan Crandall -- Heatseeking is a series of 7 films shot by Jordan Crandall in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. Captured on 16mm film as well as on video from surveillance cameras, miniature "stealth" cameras, and infrared thermal imaging systems, Heatseeking addresses the increasingly sophisticated and aggressive systems through which the border is policed. Although it points specifically at a technics of control, Heatseeking is not a one-way argument about power. In the films, Crandall evokes the erotic tension of watching and being watched and explores the new vectors of desire that erupt in an increasingly militaristic culture. Crandall says: "The 'border' is not only a territorial marker but a provisional divider, helping to contour self and body, and its policing mechanisms have subjective dimensions. Tracking, targeting, and identifying formats begin to seep into the way we see, behave, and desire. They enter into the very structure of perception. The camera marks the place of battle." With Heatseeking, as with his previous project Drive, Crandall is occupied with the development of a postcinematic language. Combining cinematic formats with a military-driven "strategic seeing," he moves toward a political language that is resonant with the visual networks in which we are now entangled. Crandall targets the power dynamics around contemporary moving images: "sites where body and senses are adjusted, oriented, 'armed,' and contoured within complex new formats of movement." Heatseeking was commissioned by InSITE2000, a bi-national project of 27 cultural institutions in the US and Mexico. It is also currently on view in San Diego until February 25. For information see http://www.insite2000.org. Coinciding with this exhibition at Sandra Gering Gallery, Jordan Crandall will present two excerpts from Drive at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York. The exhibition will run from 5 - 26 January 2001. Admission is free. On Saturday, 20 January, at 6pm, The Kitchen will present a TV DINNER with Jordan Crandall. The evening will be moderated by Lawrence Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum. The cost is $20 and it includes dinner. For reservations call (212) 255-5793. The Kitchen's TV DINNER series invites groundbreaking video and new media artists to show their work and share their thoughts in an informal atmosphere. The audience meets the artist over screenings of work and a vegetarian dinner provided by a neighborhood restaurant. http://www.blast.org/crandall Sandra Gering Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm. For further information please contact Marianna Baer at (212) 226-8195 or sandra@geringgallery.com. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold