Dundee Contemporary Arts

This exhibition is the second phase of a remarkable project40jahrevideokunst.de, initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2006.

Under the direction of ZKM Karlsruhe (Centre for Art & Media Technology), five leading German museums have worked in collaboration for the realisation of the project, which aims to preserve, restore and disseminate one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century; Video Art.

Suitable for

• 18+
• 16-17
• 11-13
• 14-15

Admission

Free

Website

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/exhibitions/record-again/

This exhibition brings together two bodies of recent work by acclaimed British artists Jane and Louise Wilson: Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum), 2010 and the UK premiere of Face Scripting – What Did the Building See?, 2011.

Commissioned by Forma to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum) is a suite of large-scale photographic prints. These images depict deserted interiors from the now almost entirely abandoned town of Pripyat, situated within the 30km wide Exclusion Zone.

Face Scripting – What Did the Building See? was inspired by the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, a Hamas operative, in a Dubai hotel room in January 2010. The two-part film installation shows the artists’ own film alongside real CCTV footage that was compiled, and subsequently released on YouTube, by the Dubai state police.

Suitable for

• 16-17
• 18+

Where

Gallery 1 & 2

Admission

Free

Website

http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/jane-louise-wilson.html

This exhibition brings together two bodies of recent work by acclaimed British artists Jane and Louise Wilson: Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum), 2010 and the UK premiere of Face Scripting – What Did the Building See?, 2011.

Commissioned by Forma to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum) is a suite of large-scale photographic prints. These images depict deserted interiors from the now almost entirely abandoned town of Pripyat, situated within the 30km wide Exclusion Zone. The richly textured images include a kindergarten, a theatre and a swimming pool, all of which explicitly reveal the hurried nature of their abandonment.

Face Scripting – What Did the Building See? was inspired by the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, a Hamas operative, in a Dubai hotel room in January 2010. The two-part film installation shows the artists’ own film alongside real CCTV footage that was compiled, and subsequently released on YouTube, by the Dubai state police. This work is an intensely detailed study of the site of the assassination and a meditation on current trends in surveillance techniques. Face Scripting – What Did the Building See? was made in collaboration with Shumon Basar and Eyal Weizman.

Suitable for

• 18+
• 14-15
• 16-17
• 11-13

Website

http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/jane-louise-wilson.html

Until Mon 2 April 2012, editions commissioned as part of DCA’s editions series during 2011 are on exhibition in the Print Space above the Shop. Some of these works are now available for sale, while others can be previewed while they are still in production, before being released later in the year:

Jonathan Horowitz
Kevin Hutcheson
Manfred Pernice
Nina Rhode
Cara Tolmie

Suitable for

• Any age

Where

Print Space

Admission

Free