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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...
ACCA acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people as sovereign custodians of the land on which we work and welcome visitors, along with the neighbouring Boonwurrung, Bunurong, and wider Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their longstanding and continuing care for Country and we recognise First Peoples art and cultural practice has been thriving here for millennia. We extend our respect to ancestors and Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people.
Glimpse into the archive—

The artist stood before two piles of white paper arranged side by side on a table. As Robert Douglas’s radiophonic tape composition Alpha Solstice began to be heard, Lewis began to scribble on the top sheet of the left-hand pile…

Ruark Lewis: Transcription Drawings 1988-1992 (1992)

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