Newman featured in Perspectives on Video Performance exhibition, New York
Andrew Newman’s video work Self-Portrait at the Door (Blue Screen Sequence) will be featured in the exhibition Perspectives on Video Performance at Regina Rex Gallery in New York on August 12, 2011. The exhibition is curated by Janis Ferberg and is part of the cross-platform project Portal which includes a series of exhibitions, performances and symposia, surveying the changing nature of art in the digital world.
Self-Portrait at the Door (Blue Screen Sequence) - Video Still 01
Andrew Newman’s artwork will be screened alongside work by Greer Rochford, Brown Council, Robin Hungerford and Samuel James. This selection of work offers an alternative point of entry to the practice of performance, whereby video is used not as a medium for documentation, but rather as an end in itself.
The performative actions and scenarios played out by the artists are stripped of their material context and presented in a state suspended between real-time and the infinite. Presented out of context, and halfway around the world, Perspectives on Video Performance encourages the viewer to reconsider the meaning of presence and real-time experience of performance art.