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Juan Downey

Exhibition

New American Video Art: A Historical Survey 1967 – 1980

Exhibiting artists: Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Peter Campus, Douglas Davis, Juan Downey, Ed Emswiller, Frank Gillette, Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Andy Mann, Bruce Nauman, Jud Yalkuy and Nam June Paik, Richard Serra, Ira Schneider and Beryl Korot, Woody and Steina Vasulka...
Program

Public Talk: Carla Macchiavello: Juan Downey’s Video Ecologies: thinking with the senses

This lecture focuses on the confluence of ecology and a politics of the senses in the video works of Juan Downey (Santiago, 1940–New York, 1993). Downey was an artist who developed a wide-ranging oeuvre in video art to explore his concerns on displacement, communication across cultures...
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Glimpse into the archive—

Filmed at the Yasukuni War Shrine and Museum, the Imperial Palace and the ground floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Weary presented a multi-textual reading of the cultural condition of Japan.

Geoffrey Weary: Faraway (1992)

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