Feb. 14 – March 30; Thursday-Saturday nights, dusk-11 p.m.

Artist Talk: Feb. 21, 6:30 p.m.

Yvonne Buchanan in Court (Basketball), 2012 (13:22 loop)

Urban Video Project and Light Work are pleased to announce the exhibition of the video piece in Court (Basketball) by Yvonne Buchanan at UVP Everson from Feb. 40-March 31. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Everson Museum of Art, which will feature Buchanan’s video and sound installation Strange Tongue through March 31 inside the Everson’s galleries.

In her video work, Buchanan creates micronarratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Collective and individual experiences of otherness, the traumas sustained and the strategies employed to endure these experiences are the focus of her recent work. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity and a dark and weighty presence.

The piece in Court (Basketball) features a basketball court where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the nearby correctional facility.

Buchanan will give an artist talk in the Everson’s Hosmer Auditorium on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 6:30 p.m.

Buchanan is currently associate professor of art, design and transmedia at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University. Her work has been featured in shows and festivals nationally and internationally, including Rencontres Internationales 2006 (Berlin and Paris); the 2008 Whitney Biennial (as part of “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms” at the Armory); and the Slamdance Festival; as well as showing at Anthology Film Archives in New York; UCLA’s Hammer Museum; and most recently at the Everson Museum of Art as part of TONY 2012.

GENERAL INFORMATION

UVP is an important international venue for the public presentation of video and electronic arts. It is one of the few projects in the United States dedicated to continuous and ongoing video art projections—while some other venues project work sporadically, UVP’s Everson site runs, commercial free, from dusk to 11 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, year round. UVP is part of the Connective Corridor, which is emerging as a significant strip of cutting-edge cultural development connecting Syracuse University with downtown Syracuse.

UVP uses the latest in digital projection technology to project high-definition video or digital images on the side of buildings in downtown Syracuse. UVP Everson, the flagship site, is located on the north façade of the Everson Museum of Art building at 401 Harrison St. UVP also has a second mobile unit that travels around the city for special events.

UVP is a public art initiative of Syracuse with technology provided by Time Warner. It is one of the first permanent public video art exhibition venues in the country. Light Work is a nonprofit, artist-run organization dedicated to the support of artists working in photography and electronic media. Light Work and UVP are members of CMAC, the Coalition of Museum and Art Centers at Syracuse University.

For more information about any of these exhibitions, please contact Anneka Herre at UVP, 315-443-1369 or anneka@urbanvideoproject.com