IN RESPONSE:
Repetition and Difference
Repetition and Difference
Sunday, May 10, 2015
6:30 pm EST
6:30 pm EST
Columbia University Visual Arts MFA candidates and recent alumni presented new video, performance, and installation-based artworks in response to the exhibition Repetition and Difference, inspired by the 1968 work Difference and Repetition by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The exhibition combined collection objects and contemporary art, exploring crucial differences among iterations that revealed social and political conditions, expressions of individuality, consumer culture, and the joy of artistic invention.
Participating Artists:
Christina Sukhgian Houle
Bora Kim
Jonah King
Yujin Lee and Nicole Maloof
Talia Link
Meta Meta Meta, LLC (Leah Wolff and Guy Ben-Ari)
Ilaria Ortensi
Alex Strada
Nat Ward
Xu Wang
See the program brochure︎
Participating Artists:
Christina Sukhgian Houle
Bora Kim
Jonah King
Yujin Lee and Nicole Maloof
Talia Link
Meta Meta Meta, LLC (Leah Wolff and Guy Ben-Ari)
Ilaria Ortensi
Alex Strada
Nat Ward
Xu Wang
See the program brochure︎
Christina Sukhgian Houle
The Many Elvis’ of Andy
Performance
Multiple performers impersonate one another as they impersonate Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis. This game of telephone plays with the structure of Trent Harris’s film Beaver Trilogy as each person repeats part of what his or her predecessor performed while also extending the narrative by adding onto what was presented.
Performance
Multiple performers impersonate one another as they impersonate Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis. This game of telephone plays with the structure of Trent Harris’s film Beaver Trilogy as each person repeats part of what his or her predecessor performed while also extending the narrative by adding onto what was presented.
Bora Kim
I’m Making a Boy Band (IMMABB)
Video and Performance
Kim, her IMMABB Team (Karin Kuroda and Samantha Shao), and their K-pop (Korean pop) boy band EXP present a performance of the band’s debut single “Luv/Wrong.” A video excerpt from the documentary I’m Making a Boy Band precedes the performance. EXP consists of non-Korean band members. In a globalized era of cultural homogenization, Kim and Team IMMABB ask, “What is the meaning of pop and art in relation to hybridity, assimilation, and identity politics?”
Video and Performance
Kim, her IMMABB Team (Karin Kuroda and Samantha Shao), and their K-pop (Korean pop) boy band EXP present a performance of the band’s debut single “Luv/Wrong.” A video excerpt from the documentary I’m Making a Boy Band precedes the performance. EXP consists of non-Korean band members. In a globalized era of cultural homogenization, Kim and Team IMMABB ask, “What is the meaning of pop and art in relation to hybridity, assimilation, and identity politics?”
Jonah King
The Reserve
Video
I remember my bedroom as a child more vividly than anywhere I have lived since. I think of the cracks in the floor tiles and the dust on the window sill and I am there immediately. I think of my grandfather, a Cypriot refugee, who has carried his old house key with him for 40 years. Memory is a landscape navigated beside time, inhabiting the home we build upon it.
Video
I remember my bedroom as a child more vividly than anywhere I have lived since. I think of the cracks in the floor tiles and the dust on the window sill and I am there immediately. I think of my grandfather, a Cypriot refugee, who has carried his old house key with him for 40 years. Memory is a landscape navigated beside time, inhabiting the home we build upon it.
Yujin Lee and Nicole Maloof
The Story
Performance
Inspired by Matthew Ritchie’s diagrammatic slide presentations, Adam Curtis’ Century of the Self, and Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue, The Story is an analytical dissection of American media representation of Asians.
Performance
Inspired by Matthew Ritchie’s diagrammatic slide presentations, Adam Curtis’ Century of the Self, and Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue, The Story is an analytical dissection of American media representation of Asians.
Talia Link
Everyday Makeup Routine
Video
The amount of time an average woman spends on her appearance is equivalent to getting an Ivy League master’s degree. SERIOUSLY.
Fixing Myself DIY
Video
A little something about the double standard of being flawless. #LipstickFeminism
Video
The amount of time an average woman spends on her appearance is equivalent to getting an Ivy League master’s degree. SERIOUSLY.
Fixing Myself DIY
Video
A little something about the double standard of being flawless. #LipstickFeminism
Meta Meta Meta, LLC
(Leah Wolff and Guy Ben-Ari)
(Leah Wolff and Guy Ben-Ari)
Checkpoints
Installation
The security bowls in the Lobby, used to hold keys and other small objects as entering Museum visitors pass through the metal detector, have been replaced with similar bowls carrying a different design. Handmade Mezuzot have also been placed in doorways throughout the first and second floors.
Fertility Objects
Installation
Handmade female figurines are available for purchase from a performer walking throughout the first and second floors for the evening’s duration.
Installation
The security bowls in the Lobby, used to hold keys and other small objects as entering Museum visitors pass through the metal detector, have been replaced with similar bowls carrying a different design. Handmade Mezuzot have also been placed in doorways throughout the first and second floors.
Fertility Objects
Installation
Handmade female figurines are available for purchase from a performer walking throughout the first and second floors for the evening’s duration.
Ilaria Ortensi
Windows
Installation
An assemblage of “photographic blocks” forms an impermanent construction that resembles an unfinished or destroyed building. The visual elements of the windows are photographs of the Trump Place tower facades on Riverside Drive.
Installation
An assemblage of “photographic blocks” forms an impermanent construction that resembles an unfinished or destroyed building. The visual elements of the windows are photographs of the Trump Place tower facades on Riverside Drive.
Alex Strada
After Edward Burtynsky
Collages
This stop-motion animation accompanies Strada’s prints on display outside the auditorium entrance, depicting her collages as they are built and ultimately dismantled. Viewers who have picked up a print can contextualize where their pieces lie in relation to the entire edition.
Video
This stop-motion animation accompanied Strada’s prints on display outside the auditorium entrance, depicting her collages as they are built and ultimately dismantled. Viewers who have picked up a print can contextualize where their pieces lie in relation to the entire edition.
Collages
This stop-motion animation accompanies Strada’s prints on display outside the auditorium entrance, depicting her collages as they are built and ultimately dismantled. Viewers who have picked up a print can contextualize where their pieces lie in relation to the entire edition.
Video
This stop-motion animation accompanied Strada’s prints on display outside the auditorium entrance, depicting her collages as they are built and ultimately dismantled. Viewers who have picked up a print can contextualize where their pieces lie in relation to the entire edition.
media (none currently)
Nat Ward
Autoequivalent 1 & 2 (excerpt)
Video
These videos, selected from over 30 hours of continuous camerawork, map Ward’s movements by focusing a camera on the sky as he drives from his home in Brooklyn to the location of his current documentary project in Delray Beach, Florida.
Video
These videos, selected from over 30 hours of continuous camerawork, map Ward’s movements by focusing a camera on the sky as he drives from his home in Brooklyn to the location of his current documentary project in Delray Beach, Florida.
Xu Wang
Xiawa and Dawei (Eve and David)
Installation and Video
Wang created these two sculptures in Quyang, a district in China with a large economy devoted to producing marble replicas of Western classical sculpture for consumption in the west. Wang recycles figurative sculptures that have been discarded due to flaws, re-carving them into portraits of the craftspeople who produced them. Titled with the Chinese names of the biblical figures that the sculptures originally depicted, this piece complicates our understanding of production and circulation in the global economy. A process documentary accompanied Wang’s installation in the Lobby.
Installation and Video
Wang created these two sculptures in Quyang, a district in China with a large economy devoted to producing marble replicas of Western classical sculpture for consumption in the west. Wang recycles figurative sculptures that have been discarded due to flaws, re-carving them into portraits of the craftspeople who produced them. Titled with the Chinese names of the biblical figures that the sculptures originally depicted, this piece complicates our understanding of production and circulation in the global economy. A process documentary accompanied Wang’s installation in the Lobby.
Installation views of the exhibition Repetition and Difference. 2015 The Jewish Museum, NY. Photo by: David Heald.; Event photography by Da Ping Luo.