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ALEXANDER HEIM / 1st - 14th February 2009
Heim will present a selection of work on www.tank.tv including several recently exhibited pieces including ‘Three Seasons’, ‘Costa’ and ‘Untitled (Dog)’. Included in tank.tv’s 2007 publication ‘Fresh Moves: New Moving Images from the UK’ Heim continues to create work that “strips away the literalness of everyday life, revealing the mysteries contained in the most commonplace”
Kate Forde, Frieze, November 2008.

“Heim’s practice encompasses video, installation and sculpture and addresses those intrusions into urban life where animals, processes and chance routines create self sustaining pockets of otherness. The work examines things that happen - despite the planned nature of the urban environment - on their own... In the altered scheme of nature proffered by Heim, conventional distinctions between ‘natural’ and ‘man-made’ are disrupted. Rather than holding up the moral card of environmentalism, the artist’s observations appear to provide a view of nature in which everything, even a crisp packet, has its place.”
Melissa Gronlund, Notes accompanying Alexander Heim as part of Nought to Sixty, at the ICA, 16 - 23 June 2008.

LISA OPPENHEIM / 15th - 28th February 2009
tank.tv will present several pieces of single and double screen work from the American artist including ‘Story Study Print’ and ‘No Closer to the Source’. Mostly created using 16mm film stock we are pleased to have this unique opportunity to exhibit Oppenheim’s work in this interesting new context.

“Lisa Oppenheim’s work constitutes an archaeology of visual culture. She brings the hidden, under-appreciated and repressed into vie w, and in the process reveals an ordering of things that goes beyond our commonplace responses. Her work ranges from damaged negatives from early 20th century news stories, personal photographs posted on ‘Flicker’ by soldiers serving in Iraq through to the constellation of the day and location of famous historical media stories.”
Press Release from ‘The Making of Americans’ at STORE 2008.


SPECIAL SCREENING - ONE SESSION ONLY!
tank.tv hosted by CACSA Sunday 22 February 3:00 - 4:00pm Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia
'She doesn’t think so but she’s dressed for the h-bomb', curated by Negar Azimi, presents a broad selection of recent video work by international artists Ziad Antar, Yael Bartana, Haris Epaminonda, Iman Issa, Hassan Khan, Rosalind Nashashibi, Shahryar Nashat, Ahmet Ögüt, and The Atlas Group engaged with evaluating the weight of diverse personal histories through the framework of national myth, ritual, architecture, or pop culture.
www.cacsa.org.au

JOHN LATHAM / 1st - 14th March 2009
John Latham (1921 – 2006) has been associated with several national and international artistic movements since he began showing work in the late 1940s. He is associated with the first phase of conceptual art of the 1960s, was an important contributor to the Destruction in Art Symposium of 1966, and was a founder member of the Artist Placement Group (1966-89). Latham’s work has been exhibited internationally, including recent solo exhibitions at Tate Britain (2005) and PS1, New York (2006). His work has been included in numerous historic group shows and many survey exhibitions of British Art since the 1960s including Live in Your Head (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2000), From Blast To Freeze (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2003) and Art and the 60s: This was tomorrow (Tate Britain, 2004).

tank.tv will show a selection of John Latham’s work including: Unedited Material from the Star, Talk Mr Bard, Speak, Britannica, Erth.

STEVE REINKE / 15th - 31st March 2009
Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his work in video. He lives in Toronto and Chicago, where he is Associate Professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. His work is screened widely and is in several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Pompidou (Paris), and the National Gallery (Ottawa).

“In a city so dense with smart psychoanalytic cinema, Reinke wields the language of the unconscious as lightly as a portable video camera. He plays with the thinness of images and the inadequacy of words, the gap between language and desire. [ . . . ] Though Reinke fills these videos with his own thoughts, revealing the most intimate things about his fantasies, his childhood, his family, there is an ironic note that undercuts the confessional quality, as if Reinke hesitated to burden the viewer. [ . . . ] Not masochistically but quasiscientifically, Reinke mortifies the flesh in order to isolate desire: if you cannot both be and have, Reinke chooses to have.”
Laura U. Marks, Artforum, May 1995.

CASZartscreen 2008
tank.tv is pleased to announce a year long presence in Amsterdam, beginning this autumn. From December 1st we will be screening a plethora of programs on the CASZartscreen in the Zuidas district of the Dutch capital. Each lasting 15 minutes and screened 3 times a day a new program will be shown every two weeks, ensuring the content is kept fresh and engaging.
For additional information please see:
www.virtueel-museum.nl
www.caszuidas.nl


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