From March 2007, we will be developing an online
As part of this, we will be publishing a series of interviews on presence with Tony Oursler. The first of these were recorded by Nick Kaye in New York in October and November 2006.
In this project, each analytical, documentary or and interview text presented in its own right texts will also act as a map maps of key terms, ideas, and works, linking to pages of analysis, documentation, quotation, and comment. These pages will form the deeper structure of the site, offering a series of annotations on Presence and Tony Oursler's remarkable body of work.
A menu of annotations The first of these annotated texts is under construction below, allowing the site to be read in any order.
below.
This process will provide the basis for an ongoing engagement with Tony Oursler's work through the Presence Project.
Tony Oursler, Painting + Paper: Ooze
Media Entities and a Politics of Presence
Tony Oursler: Interviews
...to come...
TONY OURSLER, Bluerealisation with Head, 2007
aluminium, acrylic, LCD screen, DVD player
92 x 42 x 4.5 inches
233.7 x 106.7 x 11.4 cm
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LEHMANN MAUPIN GALLERY,
NEW YORK
Annotations (under construction)
aura
Blue Invasion, 2006
Blob, 2004
colour
empathy test
deep media structure
image
media critique
media entity
migration
mimetic systems
mirror and surrogate
MMPI
objectness
outer space
painting
self
Six, 1996
Sound Digressions in Seven Colours,
Spaced, 2006
Influence Machine, 2000
Thought Forms, 2006
transmission
Underwater (Blue/Green), 1996
vernacular
video grammar
video space
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Metro Pictures, New York; Museum Fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel; and the Museum Folkwang, Essen, West Germany. Born in 1957, he studied at Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York, subsequently receiving a BFA from the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) in 1979, where he studied with the artist John Baldessarri. His major mid-career retrospective, Introjection, was presented by Williams College Museum of Art in Massachusetts in 1999 and was on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Des Moines Art Center from 1999 to 2001. His work is represented in many major museum collections, including MOMA New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art and Tate Modern. Tony Oursler lives in New York.
Tony Oursler's extensive website, including image and video documentation, is at [link]. His major online project TimeStream, hosted by MOMA New York, is at [link]
Tony Oursler, Painting + Paper: Ooze
Media Entities and a Politics of Presence
Tony Oursler: Interviews
...to come...
For an introduction to Tony Oursler's work, go to Some notes on Tony Oursler, by Gabriella Giannachi
