Transvideo Exhibition

Gallery Talk: Friday, October 20, 11-12:30am
Reception: Friday, October 20, 6-8pm

“Trans,” like the fluid medium of video, promises movement.The “trans” in transculturation—that complex ongoing process of cultural mixture, exchange, alteration, and invention—moves within, between, and also beyond the complex border zones of geopolitical place, identity, body, and consciousness. What can video do as a tool of documentation, alteration, and fabrication but also as an affective agent of transfer, transport, and transformation? Juxtaposing works that employ different aesthetic tactics to take on, from varied perspectives, the pressing
political question of movement and change, the exhibition features works made with video technology or transferred to digital video by international artists Yinka Shonibare, Carrie Mae Weems, Jayce Salloum,
Ursula Biemann, Richard Fung, Tobaron Waxman, and Ximena Cuevas. Exploring transnational tourism and migration, transhistory, destruction, and revolution, transcultural exchanges, AIDS, love and transmission, and gender, sexuality, and transformation, the assembled works may also act as a prompt to be moved by them but also to move between them, forging connections between issues that are often held apart.

Curated by Jill H. Casid, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture Studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the Transvideo exhibition has been organized in conjunction with TRANS: A Visual Culture Conference at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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