Still of a video, showing a wavery, fuzzy human face tinted shades of blue.

Bodies in Space

October 7–December 31, 2016

Media Arts Watch Gallery

Bodies in Space is the inaugural art exhibition of MAG’s Media Arts Initiative. The exhibition is organized by John Hanhardt, MAG’s new Consulting Senior Curator of Media Arts, and features work by Nam June Paik and Bruce Nauman, key artists from the early years of video art, alongside more recent work by Sondra Perry and Takeshi Murata, artists on the cutting edge of a new generation transforming the digital media arts.

Bodies in Space is a curated collection of media art, previously never seen together as one installation.

An upside-down shot of a person bent over, caught mid-movement.
Revolving Upside Down (still), 1969
Bruce Nauman
Single-channel video with sound. Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 2016.8. ©Bruce Nauman. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Still of a video, showing a wavery, fuzzy human face tinted shades of blue.
9/23/69: Experiments with David Atwood (still), 1969
Nam June Paik
Single-channel color video with sound. Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 2016.9. ©Estate of Nam June Paik. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
A still from "Monster Movie."
Monster Movie (still), 2005
Takeshi Murata
Single-channel color video with sound. Lent by Electronic Arts Intermix. © Takeshi Murata. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Still from a video of a black person dressed in white and moving against a white background, almost completely erased by digital blur.
Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I (still), 2013
Sondra Perry
Single-channel video, color, silent; 9:45 minutes. Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 2016.7a

Works Included

REVOLVING UPSIDE DOWN
Bruce Nauman | 1969

9/23/69: EXPERIMENTS WITH DAVID ATWOOD
Nam June Paik | 1969

MONSTER MOVIE
Takeshi Murata | 2005

DOUBLE QUADRUPLE ETCETERA ETCETERA
Sondra Perry | 2013

Featured Image CreditNam June Paik, 9/23/69: Experiments with David Atwood (still, detail), 1969. Single-channel color video with sound. Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 2016.9. ©Estate of Nam June Paik. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

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