Revisions: Zen for Film - Exhibition

Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2013). Revisions: Zen for Film - Exhibition [Performance or Exhibition]. In: Bard Graduate Center Gallery. New York: Bard Graduate Center

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How do works of art endure over time in the face of aging materials and changing interpretations of their meaning? How do decay, technological obsolescence, and the blending of old and new media affect what an artwork is and can become? And how can changeable artworks encourage us to rethink our assumptions of a work of art as fixed and static? Revisions—Zen for Film explored these questions through Zen for Film, one of the most evocative artworks by the Korean-American artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006). Created during the early 1960s, Zen for Film consists of the screening of blank film leader for several minutes. As the film ages and wears in the projector, the viewer is confronted with a constantly evolving work. Revisions—Zen for Film provided a fresh perspective on an artwork with a rich history of display by asking precisely what, how, and when is Zen for Film? Developed during a two-year Andrew W. Mellon “Cultures of Conservation” Fellowship at Bard Graduate Center, Revisions—Zen for Film offered a unique and intimately focused encounter with the materiality of Paik’s work. The exhibition was accompanied by a digital interactive with contributions by BGC master’s students and a publication of the same name published by the University of Chicago Press. “This succinct presentation [of Zen for Film] took the form of a proposition: At a glance, the three-part display conjured a daunting variety of factors—including medium, duration, presentation, classification, nomenclature, and methods of distribution—that have contributed to the work’s complex identity…” —Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum

Item Type:	Audiovisual Material & Event (Performance or Exhibition)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture > Contemporary Art and Media
Name:	Hölling, Hanna Barbara0000-0002-3063-4405
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general T Technology > T Technology (General)
Publisher:	Bard Graduate Center
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hanna Barbara Hölling
Date Deposited:	15 Sep 2023 09:28
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 09:28
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Film, materialist film, structural film, Fluxus film, materiality, nothingness, silence, time, trace
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19886