Gowane by Sayler / Morris, installation view

 

Urban Video Project (UVP) and Light Work announce Psychic Geographies Spring 2013 group show at UVP Everson site

April 11-June 1; Thursday-Saturday nights, dusk-11 p.m.

Special indoor screening: April 26, 7 p.m.

Reception on the plaza: April 26, 8:30-9:30 p.m.

Psychic Geographies

This is the first time that UVP has mounted a group show, and it will feature five video pieces running continuously each night of the show. The show is curated by Anneka Herre.

The outdoor program will include Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-2010) by Mariam Ghani, Gowane (2013) by Sayler/Morris with Evan Paschke, We Began by Measuring Distance (2009) by Basma Alsharif, There There Square (2002) by Jacqueline Goss and Circle in the Sand (2012) by Michael Robinson.

In the pieces that make up Psychic Geographies, forces of desire, both personal and political, and forces of nature traverse the land with a heavy tread, describing the borders of contested territories and propagating strange ecologies.

According to Herre:  “Psychic Geographies explores geography in the broadest sense as an image or description of the earth. At a time when every image of the land is already fraught with political tension, economic interest and ecological anxiety, these pieces engage the ways in which various forms of representation, from the cherished photographic tokens of a lost homeland to architectural renderings for real estate development, from glossy magazine ads for travel agencies to ostensibly objective cartographic representations, all fail to adequately describe the Earth, not least because they efface the presence of the human from it. These pieces perform the landscape, suggesting alternative ways of relating to the land and its abstract correlate, Nature, and laying bare the extent to which we are all, human and non-human, part of that landscape in its constant becoming.”

As part of Psychic Geographies, a special indoor screening program including additional video pieces will be held in the Everson’s Hosmer Auditorium on Friday, April 26, at 7 p.m.

The screening will be immediately followed by a reception on the plaza from 8:30-9:30 p.m. catered by local coffeehouse Recess.

The Urban Video Project (UVP) is a multimedia public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University that operates on the Connective Corridor in Syracuse, New York. The mission of UVP is to present exhibitions and projects that celebrate the arts and culture of Syracuse and engage artists and the creative community around the world.  As an important international venue for the public presentation of video and electronic arts, UVP is one of the few projects in the United States dedicated to continuous and ongoing video art projections in public spaces. UVP uses the latest in digital projection technology to project high-definition video.