AUTOBODY
CURATED BY NEVILLE WAKEFIELD
featuring the film NORTH OF
SOUTH WEST OF EAST
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All events are free and open
to the public.
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(Fall is happening in Maine, with beautiful sunny days (so far). Apples have fallen, and been gathered; breezes out on the Reach tends to NW; and we start to think of our winter home in West Texas.
One of the reasons we like Marfa so much is events like this one, upcoming at Ballroom Marfa.
Another reason we like Marfa is old trucks and the Marfa guys who work on them. Speaking of autobody, check out Hector Sanchez's work on our truck at H&M Auto in Marfa (just behind Mando's) )---PB
AutoBody, curated by Neville Wakefield, explores the mythology of the
American automobile through the carcasses of an industry turned art. From
Robert Frank to Richard Prince, the automobile has been the driving force of
American freedom: its promise of escape provided in an image of mobility.
However, as JG Ballard pronounced over 40 years ago, "the car as we know
it is on the way out... for as a basically old fashioned machine, it
enshrines a basically old-fashion idea: freedom." The American dream
that it once represented, and freedom-the idea it once enshrined-may, like
the car itself, be turning obsolete.
With
a nod to those windshields that cinematized landscape, AutoBody features the newly commissioned
four-channel video work, North of South West of East, by emerging artist Meredith
Danluck and
produced by Matthew Shattuck. Shot on location in Detroit, Michigan and
Marfa, Texas, North of South West of East uses the car as an entry point,
a subtle connective tissue, between the equally loaded but seemingly
disparate archetypes of the Cowboy, the Rebel, the Immigrant, and the
Actress. Eschewing the simplification of abstraction, the film employs the
mainstays of narrative with a strong focus on temporality. Each of the four
character's retention of the past, attention to present actions and future
anticipation play out on separate screens simultaneously manifesting both
mobility and stasis-the chronic existential crisis that is American identity.
Marfa
local punk band Solid Waste and New York musician John Carpenter are featured on the film's
soundtrack.
This is happening at Ballroom Marfa in--where else--Marfa Texas.
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Trucks, cars, highways, landscape, good writing. "You cannot travel on the path, before you have become the Path itself."
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Autobody & Ballroom Marfa
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