Short films showing at TCU’s Contemporary Arts gallery until April 8

Fort Worth, TX

3/1/2010

A group of short films produced by NY/London-based artist Liam Gillick will be on exhibition at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2900 W. Berry Street, March 5 through April 8.  The opening reception will be Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the gallery.
 
Films being screened include:
Erasmus in Kassel (1997)
Two curators make a short film showing the artist a large digital clock on top of Osterberg Optik in central Kassel x2013; one of the artist x2019;s works for documenta X. Set to music, the film is a record of display, presentation and boredom while revealing the pitfalls of placing an artwork in an urban environment.

Downtown Community Television (2003)
A short documentary of Amy Goodman in the midst of a pledge drive for Democracy Now! Filmed by the artist at the studios of Downtown Community Television in New York

Briannnnnnn & Ferryyyyyy (Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, 2004)
Originally produced for an exhibition at the Konsthall, Lund, Sweden. A cartoon series in ten episodes, written while the artist was drunk. The classic cat-and-mouse relationship is put in jeopardy when the mouse is killed in the first episode.

Kalmar Received a Great Deal of Attention (1974) (2007)
A short cartoon showing a BMW repeatedly driving at speed towards a factory.

We are Medi(eval) (Angela Bulloch and Liam Gillick, 1994)
Two artists dig a hole outside the Portikus in Frankfurt, Germany. They plant a meadow wearing Medieval accessories from a local party store then return to the Frankfurt Sport Club to talk about the idea of moving through time in order to evade the problems of the present.

Ann Lee You Proposes (2001)
Originally commissioned by the Tate Gallery in London. A short computer-animated film of the character Ann Lee, rescued from a short life as a bit-part in Japanese Anime by artists Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, Ann Lee became the subject of a number of artworks by different artists including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Richard Phillips.
 
Liam Gillick has taught at Columbia University in New York City since 1997.

For more information, call 817-257-2588.