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REDCAT
(Roy and Edna Disney/
CalArts Theater)

BARRY MCGEE: ADVANCED MATURE WORK
Opening reception: Friday, September 14, 7 - 10pm
Exhibition Dates: September 15 - November 25, 2007

http://www.redcat.org

Barry McGee has long sought to maintain a destabilized art practice rooted in the spontaneity and immediacy of graffiti culture and all informal forms of expressivity. For McGee, graffiti is a vital communicative record of society, an extension of the desire for freedom, and the intellectual core his practice. It is pure expression in line with the values of American society. As he has explained: "The American Dream has nothing to do with criminality, but with a desire for independence and adventure, so escaping from any kind of control or definition also signifies not being identified, acting illegally, standing outside of every category of art and intervention on the streets."*

Amidst a profound history of sanctioned and unsanctioned public art, McGee and his cohort including Bill Daniels, Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy, and Rigo 23 came to exact a significant impact on art practice the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s working on the streets and at the Luggage Store Gallery, Adobe Books, Clarion Alley and other formal and informal venues.

An avid looker, McGee is uniquely aware of the color, smell, and speed of his surroundings. Exposed to radical practices of activism, art, and performance in the Bay Area in the 1980s, McGee is part of a unique anti-establishment aesthetic that values social responsibility, nature, and McGee continues to test the limits of an uncontained practice, incorporating overturned vehicles, motorized objects, destroyed surfaces, flash movies, and hundreds of "tape" paintings.

McGee’s site-specific installation at REDCAT will include a selection of existing works as well as a new sculptural/environmental construction. The exhibition is McGee’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since his Hammer Project in 2000. It is the second exhibition McGee has worked on with former REDCAT director and curator Eungie Joo. The first was the 1998 exhibition, Regards, Barry McGee at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Born 1966 in San Francisco, McGee received his BFA in painting and printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991. He has exhibited internationally including the Watarium, Tokyo; Liverpool Biennial; Museum Het Domein, Sittard; Prada Foundation, Milan; Deste Foundation, Athens; 2001 Venice Biennale; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. McGee lives and works in San Francisco.

This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of Jeffrey Deitch, Everloving and Feal Mor, RVCA, and Giant Robot..

Admission to the gallery is always free
Gallery hours: noon - 6 pm or curtain, closed Mondays
Visit http://www.redcat.org or call +1.213.237.2800 for more information

REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA

* "Germano Celant Barry McGee," Barry McGee. Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2002, unpaginated.

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TEXTE ZUR KUNST

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TEXTE ZUR KUNST
September 2007 / Issue No. 67:

"CONVERSATIONS"

Time to talk — discussing documenta 12 and the new popularity of contemporary "Art" / You’ve asked for
it — interview formats in theory and practice / Contesting communication — the artist interview
as a critical genre

Reviews from Kassel, Muenster, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, London, Vienna, Zurich, Hamburg, Cologne, Basel, Karlsruhe, and Oberhausen

Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Cerith Wyn Evans, Mike Kelley, David Lieske

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ENGLISH CONTENT

ENJOYING THE ESSENCE?
A roundtable discussion on the "substance" and popularization of
contemporary art with Helmut Draxler, Christoph Menke, Willem de Rooij, and
Julia Voss, moderated by Isabelle Graw

ULF WUGGENIG
A SOCIETY OF THE INTERVIEW
Techniques of the interview in sociology, art and market research

JOHN MILLER
TALK IS CHEAP?
On artist interviews between legitimation and reflection

FAMILY OF STRANGERS
An interview with Paul Chan by André Rottmann

RHEA ANASTAS
HER KINDLING VOICE
The artist interview according to Louise Lawler

WE NEED TO TALK
A roundtable discussion on documenta 12 with Monika Baer, Jörg Heiser,
Branden W. Joseph, and Susanne Leeb, moderated by André Rottmann

REVIEWS

BY THE END OF THE PATH
Alexander Alberro on "Skulptur Projekte Münster 07"

RICHARD SERRA: "TO CUT", "TO DROP", "TO PROP"
Rosalind E. Krauss on Richard Serra at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

DAVID HOCKNEY, 1971
Merlin Carpenter

MAXIMUM SECURITY
Claire Bishop on Damien Hirst at White Cube, London

AFTER THE MERMAIDS
Johanna Burton on "Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the MOCA, Los
Angeles and "Global Feminism: New Directions in Contemporary Art" at the
Brooklyn Museum, New York

ARTISTS’ EDITIONS issue 67:

CERITH WYN EVANS

"Light Trespass (100 Brightest Stars/100 Footnotes - "The Day at Florbelle"
by D. A. F. Sade)", 2007

SPECIAL EDITION:

MIKE KELLEY

"Lot’s Wife. Salted Soap on a Rope", 2007

YOUNG EDITION:

DAVID LIESKE

"NAVIGATING THE ATMOSPHERE", 2007

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Videobrasil

Videobrasil launches permanent artistic
residency programme at the 16th Festival

Starting in 2007, a permanent programme supported by Prince Claus Fund http://www.princeclausfund.nl will systematise Associação Cultural Videobrasil’s activities in the field of artistic residencies. Designed to strengthen the interchange programmes offered in Brazil and create a rotational dynamic that benefits Brazilian, Latin American, and African artists, the Videobrasil Residency Programme consolidates a movement that has intensified in the last five years with the creation of the residency prizes awarded by the Videobrasil Festival in partnership with Le Fresnoy Institute National des Arts Contemporains (France), Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (Brazil), and Gasworks (England).

In addition to Fresnoy, the French Consulate in Brazil, Aliança Francesa, and FAAP, the Programme has a new important partner, WBK Vrije Academie (The Netherlands). Other collaborators with recognised track records in the field of artistic residencies are Capacete Entretenimentos and Instituto Sacatar (Brazil).

The first phase of the Programme offers eight residencies scheduled for 2008 and 2009. The FAAP Digital Arts Prize brings a foreign artist to São Paulo; the Le Fresnoy Audiovisual Creation Award takes a Brazilian artist to the renowned French media centre; the Videobrasil WBK Vrije Academie Prize sends four artists to The Hague, The Netherlands; Videobrasil Capacete and Sacatar Residency Prizes go to one Brazilian and one foreign artist, respectively.

The artists awarded residency placings will be selected by a committee of representatives from Videobrasil and its partners. The first selection committee features Solange Farkas and Ana Pato (Associação Cultural Videobrasil), along with Tom van Vliet (WBK Vrije Academie) and Marcos Moraes (FAAP).

The Programme will offer the following prizes:

Le Fresnoy Audiovisual Creation Award – France
Le Fresnoy — Studio National des Arts Contemporains http://www.lefresnoy.net is a postacademic audiovisual production and research centre conceived of and directed by Alain Fleischer and inaugurated in 1997 at Tourcoing, France. Guest teachers have included Jean-Luc Godard and Gary Hill. The focus of this prize is on breaching the boundaries between traditional and electronic audiovisual media and languages. Offered since 2003 by Le Fresnoy, the French General Consulate in Brazil, and Aliança Francesa de São Paulo, the award gives an artist a three-month term of residence at the centre, complete with logistic support for the production of an audiovisual work.

The FAAP Digital Arts Prize
With an aknowledged School of Visual Arts, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado http://www.faap.br has consolidated itself as a hotbed of contemporary production in Brazil. The Foundation stands out for its emphasis on research and on the formation of professionals forever in the thick of the discussion on contemporary artistic practices. "FAAP foments artistic experimentation and this is the reason for granting the prize", says Marcos Moraes, coordinator of the visual arts course. Based at the Lutetia building in São Paulo, FAAP residency programme is open to Brazilians and foreigners working in the fields of the visual arts. It has welcomed 20 artists, including the 27th Bienal de São Paulo international residents.

Videobrasil WBK Vrije Academie Prize
Vrije Academie Werkplaats voor Beeldende Kunsten http://www.vrijeacademie.org is an independent interdisciplinary postacademic art institute initiated in 1947 by the Dutch light artist and video pioneer Livinus van der Bundt. Going against the grain of the classical art academies, the centre encouraged interaction and interchange among various disciplines: painting, sculpture, photography, and the moving image. Managed by artists since its foundation, the current director is the sculptor Ingrid Rollema, with Tom van Vliet, the renowned creator of the World Wide Video Festival, in charge of the moving image department. Recently remodelled, the department now offers postproduction and rehearsal studios for installation and media performance formats. Each of the four winners will work at the academy as artists in residence for a period of six weeks.

Videobrasil Sacatar Residency Prize
Instituto Sacatar http://www.sacatar.org runs an international residency programme for artists at its premises in Ilha de Itaparica, Bahia. A member of Res Artis, the Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies, and the Alliance of Artists Communities, its goals are to facilitate interaction and collaboration with the community, and boost the visibility and cultural impact of the city and nation in which it functions.

Videobrasil Capacete Residency Prize
The purpose of CAPACETE Entretenimentos http://www.capacete.net is to produce conceptual and contextual works that embrace multiple artistic strategies. Its residencies serve as a career-building platform for the artist, documenting his/her production and bringing it within reach of the public. The representation is the content itself.

The Videobrasil Residency Programme will be launched during the 16th International Electronic Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, that takes place between September 30 and October 25, 2007 at SESC Avenida Paulista, São Paulo. Winners of the residencies scheduled for 2008 will be announced during the Festival.

For more information on the 16th International Electronic Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, visit:
http://www.videobrasil.org.br
http://www.sescsp.org.br

Press contact:
Teté Martinho
Communications Manager
tetemartinho@videobrasil.org.br

Conception and Production: Associação Cultural Videobrasil
Undertaking: SESC SP

For more information go to: http://www.videobrasil.org.br