PRESERVES - Sounds Like 3
In 2013, I was engaged to curate a program for the 3rd edition of Sounds Like.
From the Sounds Like archive:
GARY MENTANKO - DUBLIN, IRELAND
PRESERVES
With Preserves, a selection of video works from the recently digitized archive of Video Verite and PAVED Arts serve as leaping-off points for audio artist Gary Mentanko as he engages in a collaborative intermedia dialogue, remixing and reinterpreting audio from the films. Opening up the archive in this way moves the works included therein out of the realm of museological stasis and inaccessibility into an expanded and active field of creative potential. Co-curated by Erin Griffin and Tod Emel, Preserves takes up a discourse around the mutability inherent to memory, history as encounter, and the effects (or affects) of creative mediation.
An excerpt of Mentanko's performance along with the archival video is available here.
From the Sounds Like archive:
GARY MENTANKO - DUBLIN, IRELAND
PRESERVES
With Preserves, a selection of video works from the recently digitized archive of Video Verite and PAVED Arts serve as leaping-off points for audio artist Gary Mentanko as he engages in a collaborative intermedia dialogue, remixing and reinterpreting audio from the films. Opening up the archive in this way moves the works included therein out of the realm of museological stasis and inaccessibility into an expanded and active field of creative potential. Co-curated by Erin Griffin and Tod Emel, Preserves takes up a discourse around the mutability inherent to memory, history as encounter, and the effects (or affects) of creative mediation.
An excerpt of Mentanko's performance along with the archival video is available here.