Re: Re:Play
Cell phones, Flip cameras, and editing software that doesn’t require an apprenticeship with Steven Soderbergh have started a revolution in the world of video art.
And we are so tuning in.
The Lexington Art League’s exhibition Re:Play, curated by the Lexington Film League, explores the conceptual and technical breadth of contemporary video artists working with found media as source material, a method known as Materialfilm, Collage Film, Found Footage, and/or Video Mashup.
Over the last decade, technology like media extraction and programming and platforms like YouTube and Vimeo have given artists a treasure trove of material for piecing together moving collages. For the next month, 19 of those artists are bringing their work to the walls of LAL @ Loudoun House.
Steve Reinke is one of the artists featured in Re:Play. Reinke, who has shown work in the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Museum, and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, often integrates personal essays into the narrative thread of his videos, layering new perspectives over old films. Take a look at his Not Torn (Asunder from the Very Start).
Reinke’s film The Fallen is included in Re:Play, and artists from New York to California join him for this exhibition (including Lexington’s Matt Page, Ashley Watson, and Nikolai Warner).
As an added bonus, on Oct. 13 at 7:30pm, LAL will host a screening of Craig Baldwin’s Mock up and Mu, a feature-length film that, as described by Village Voice, “uses a seemingly inexhaustible trove of cheesy found footage and his own haphazardly shot dramatizations to rewire American history, reconfigure old conspiracy theories, and rail against the machine.”
That description alone deserves four stars and two thumbs up.
Re:Play is open thru Oct. 16; LAL @ Loudoun House gallery hours are Tues-Fri 10-4, and Sat-Sun 1-4.
