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After and Before
March 13 – April 17, 1994
Screening
Empire
Andy Warhol
Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: free
This abbreviated version of Empire was produced and edited by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has a running time of forty-six minutes. The original version--arranged by Harry Romney, co-directed by John Palmer and Andy Warhol--was shot by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building with a 16mm Auricon camera on June 25, 1964, and had a running time of eight hours. Along with other of Warhol's early and now infamous films (Eat, Sleep, Haircut), Empire is an example of the inordinate levels of concentration and self-consciousness that Warhol applied to his cinema subjects.
If repetition was a fundamental trait of his paintings and silkscreens, extreme repetition was a fundamental trait of his films, a trait which both exaggerated and nullified the medium's inherent concepts of repetition, motion, and light--what makes a moving picture "move". And Empire is completely motionless, save for an occasional shift of ambient light. Warhol's childlike fascination with film was best communicated in a 1967 interview with the L.A. Free Press, when he said: "But it's so easy to make movies, you can just shoot and every picture comes out right."
The film will also be shown at 5:20 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. during the opening reception.
Opening Reception
Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: free
Screening
Daniel Buren
Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: free
This ten-minute film will also be shown at 6:15 p.m.
| Sun, Mar 20, 1994 | 12:00 am |
Performance
EXHIBIT P: HEARING NO. 1: TRANSCRIPTS to 22, 6, 14, 12, 28, 13
Hirsch Perlman
Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: free
This performance will take place every Saturday March 13-April 16 from noon to 4:00 p.m.
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