MDID - Early Videos; [photograph courtesy the artist,]

Accession Number:

16_00145

Creator:

Renée Green (American director, 1959-)

Creator:

Green, Renée

Classification:

Sculpture and Installations

Course:

Obler AH3165

Culture:

American

Description:

Produced by FAM ("F.A.M. (Free Action Media),' Green set up a fictional company to distribute "alternative" publications as what she describes as "a bit of a parody of diversification." [Griffiths, Ryan: http://web.lib.ecu.edu/africanart/ryan.htm). "Renee Green has made a study room, filled with shelves and books and cubicles, in which you can learn to decode the ever-shifting semiotics of street language". (from: "ART REVIEW : Crushed by Its Good Intentions : Under the banner of opening up the institutional art world to expansive diversity, the Whitney Biennial has in fact perversely narrowed its scope to an almost excruciating degree. March 10, 1993 | CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT | TIMES ART CRITIC ; http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-10/entertainment/ca-1335_1_art-world)

Location:

(no information)

Material:

Installation with six portable dvd players, shelf, six stools, and wall treatment

Object Date:

1991-1996 (creation)

Object Type:

sculpture; installations

Style Period:

Contemporary -

Subject:

Fine Arts; Visual; Movements; Concepts; identity-based art discourse

Technique:

installation; mixed media

Title:

Early Videos; [photograph courtesy the artist,]

View:

General View: Full View

WorkID:

14931

Identifier:

14931_16_00145.jpg

Collection:

FAAH Collection

Record created:

March 1, 2016

Last modified:

March 1, 2016

Early Videos; [photograph courtesy the artist,]

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