{"id":322962,"date":"2018-06-01T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=322962"},"modified":"2018-06-01T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T19:45:52","slug":"reflections-on-place-memorial-art-gallery-322962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/reflections-on-place-memorial-art-gallery-322962\/","title":{"rendered":"Media arts initiative reflects on city of Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York\u2013based artist Javier T\u00e9llez grew up the son of two psychiatrists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had a humanistic approach to their work,\u201d he says. \u201cMy father had private consultations at home, and he would take me to visit him at the hospital. It was part of family life to understand there was mental illness and that it was pretty much like any other illness.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days, T\u00e9llez makes movies with patients from psychiatric institutions around the world. His most recent collaboration took place in Rochester, culminating in NOSFERATU (The Undead)<\/em>, a film installation on view through June 17<\/a> at the Memorial Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

The 33-minute film, inspired by the 1922 expressionist silent horror film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens<\/em>, combines black-and-white 16mm and color digital film and was shot at the Eastman Kodak factory, the George Eastman Museum\u2019s Dryden Theatre, and the Main Street Armory.<\/p>\n

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\nLearn more about Reflections on Place,<\/em><\/a> a media arts series commissioned by the Memorial Art Gallery and inspired by the city of Rochester.<\/div>\n

T\u00e9llez traveled frequently to Rochester from his home in Queens to work on the film with a dedicated group of 10 people diagnosed with mental illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work is between fiction and commentary,\u201d T\u00e9llez says. A vampire was chosen as the main character \u201cto reflect on light and darkness as the fundamental principles of cinema, and to focus on those who are stigmatized by being different and condemned to invisibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

The work is the first in a series of commissioned media art exhibitions titled Reflections on Place<\/em>, curated by John Hanhardt \u201967, a world-renowned authority on the moving image.<\/p>\n

According Jonathan Binstock, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery<\/a>, commissioning work is a greater financial investment than acquiring art already in existence, but \u201cwith greater risk comes greater reward. I believe Javier, who already is internationally known, has made the best and most important work of his career, and we will be able to share in that success.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next artist finding inspiration in Rochester for Reflections on Place<\/em> is London\u2019s Isaac Julien, who uses music, poetry, and visual effects in a multiple screen film installation inspired by two of Rochester\u2019s most famous residents: abolitionist icon Frederick Douglass, and women\u2019s rights activist Susan B. Anthony. His work premieres in February 2019.<\/p>\n

New York City\u2019s pioneering video artist Dara Birnbaum follows in spring 2019, with her multichannel visual and sound installation spotlighting the 1964 Rochester race riots and their effect on the African-American community.<\/p>\n

Each artist\u2019s works will be individually presented, then will enter the musem\u2019s permanent collection at the end of the exhibitions.<\/p>\n

T\u00e9llez does not follow the conventional logic of narrative film. Instead, he combines different approaches to filmmaking to create an innovative, research-driven body of work full of surprises. His collaborators portray fictional patients in a set representing a ward at a 1960s-era insane asylum. They are shown simultaneously as actors and spectators of their own film.<\/p>\n

NOSFERATU (The Undead)\u00a0<\/em>includes aspects of the manufacturing of celluloid film at the Kodak factory, and also documents a performance from renowned silent film accompanist Philip Carli, the George Eastman Museum\u2019s resident musician.<\/p>\n

T\u00e9llez has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Institute (2014), Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich in Switzerland (2014), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (2004) and other museums. He has been featured in many group exhibitions, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (2012), Whitney Biennial in New York (2008) and Venice Biennale (2001 and 2003).<\/p>\n

Originally from Venezuela, T\u00e9llez has lived and worked in New York since 1993. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, and the Global Mental Health Award for Innovation in the Arts from Columbia University in 2016.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Binstock, left, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery and John Hanhardt \u201967, the MAG\u2019s consulting senior curator of media arts. (University of Rochester photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hanhardt, the MAG\u2019s consulting senior curator of media arts, calls NOSFERATU (The Undead)\u00a0<\/em>\u201ca powerful piece of installation art\u201d that is \u201ccompelling, challenging, and revelatory\u201d in today\u2019s media culture.<\/p>\n

Born, raised, and educated in Rochester\u2014graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in linguistics\u2014Hanhardt coordinated Reflections on Place<\/em> because he felt there were important events, people, and stories from Rochester that could speak to the nation and the world at large.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we have John Hanhardt,\u201d says Binstock, \u201cwe\u2019re shifting from not having any moving image program to having one of the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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