- Date 2021.03.02
- Venue 1F Lobby of Taishin Holding
Water Memory: Tony Oursler
Water Memory: Tony Oursler
Exhibition Dates: March 2 to April 16, 2021
Tony Oursler has been consistently redefining moving image and installation art through innovative and diverse methods of incorporating video, sculpture and performance into his practice, breaking video art out of the two-dimensional screen to create a unique and transformative moving three-dimensional environment with the use of projections.
Tony Oursler: Water Memory presents his multimedia installation works inspired by the phenomenon of facial recognition that visualize a composite of digitized facial features and the algorithms designed and aggregated from them. The exhibition also features his new multimedia installation of works which incorporate glass, computers and water. Thematically, the ubiquitous element of water becomes a repository for our belief systems as the artist references the development of cartography and the subsequent vanishing of sea monsters, Hollywood movies and evil maritime spirits, counterculture and the pseudoscience of water memory.
Black Box reveals his fascination of mystical phenomenon and origin of the camera obscura conjuring immersive experience through technologies of projection, video screens and optical devices. Black Box is the first major museum exhibition in Asia devoted to the full scope of the career of Tony Oursler.
Aritst / Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler (b. 1957, New York), widely considered to be among the pioneers of American multimedia and video art. Applying humor and irony to his wide range of work, which has included painting, installation, performance, and sculpture, Oursler explores the psychological and social relationships between individuals and visual technologies. Oursler has had numerous exhibitions around the world, including Documenta VIII, IX, Kassel, Germany; Glasstress, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Tate, Liverpool, UK. His works are collected by many international art museums.
