Robin Deacon (Artist Talk)
@ Conversations at the Edge
The Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Chicago, 60601
Opening Thursday, February 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Acclaimed artist and filmmaker Robin Deacon presents a stirring performance on the history and aesthetics of video. The title White Balance refers to the process by which a video camera is adjusted to account for differences in light. For Deacon, this process also suggests video’s capability to convey “a truer sense of what is being seen.” Using a series of outmoded video cameras and discarded tape formats, Deacon weaves together autobiography, fiction, and old recordings—home movies, artists’ tapes, archival TV footage—to explore the ways seeing and remembering may be transformed by the medium used to capture the event.
2013–15, US, live performance with analog and digital video, ca 60 min + discussion
Robin Deacon (1973, Eastbourne, UK) is an artist, writer, filmmaker, and educator currently based in Chicago. His interdisciplinary practice spans a variety of themes, including explorations of performer presence and absence, the role of the artist as biographer, and journalistic approaches to art’s practice. Since the early 1990s, his work has been presented at conferences and festivals internationally in Europe, US, and Asia, most recently at the Tate Britain, London (2014) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013). He is an Associate Professor in Performance at SAIC.
Official Website
More events on this date
Tags: CATE, Downtown, Experimental Media, Gene Siskel, performance, SAIC, video
« previous event
next event »