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Online Conversation: Carolyn Lazard and Ed Halter

Launch: 23 July 7 P.M.
  • Online Conversation: Carolyn Lazard and Ed Halter

    Carolyn Lazard, „Red“, 2021 Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2021, Foto: Stefan Stark

    [In the centre of the image a large scale video projection is on view that shows the word „Strobe on 4“ behind a red backround.]

    Carolyn Lazard and Ed Halter in conversation about the current exhibition Hintertür by Carolyn Lazard at Kunstverein Braunschweig with a special focus on their new two-channel video installation “Red”, 2021. With an introduction by curator Nele Kaczmarek.

    The recorded conversation will be launched on Friday July 23rd, 7 pm MESZ / 1 am GMT-4 at Kunstverein’s Mediathek where it will be available till Sunday July 25th.

    English and German subtitles are offered. The conversation will be available as a text manuscript afterwards.

    CAROLYN LAZARD & ED HALTER

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    The video “Red”, 2021 combines an awareness for different needs with the tradition of the flicker film. In flicker films, alternating single frames repeat in a pattern to produce a stroboscopic effect that triggers hallucinatory images. It also has the capacity to provoke photo-sensitive epilepsy. Seeking to find a more accessible form in this genre, Lazard has devised a two-channel video installation as an additional navigation system, where the first video visitors encounter provides information about the phases and intensities of the video projection that follows. They can then decide for themselves whether and when to enter this second room. The video, shot with the most immediately available tools—the artist’s own body and a cell phone camera—takes visitors deep into a bodily interior. A tension emerges between the physicality of the work, the intimacy of the projection, and the absence of the artist’s body from the site.

    Carolyn Lazard (born 1987 in California) is based between New York and Philadelphia. After receiving their BA in Film/Eletronic Arts and Anthropology at Bard College and MFA in Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Lazard recently realized solo and duo exhibitions at Essex Street, New York (2020) and at Shoot the Lobster, New York (2018, in collaboration with Juliana Huxtable). A solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is slated for 2022. Lazard’s work was further included in group shows at Kunstverein München (2021), the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Renaissance Society, Chicago (all 2020) and the Whitney Biennale 2019 amongst many other. The presentation at Kunstverein Braunschweig is Lazard’s first institutional solo exhibition in Europe.

    Ed Halter is a critic and curator living in New York City, and a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. His publications include „From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games” (2006) and „Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century” (2015, with Lauren Cornell). He regularly writes for Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Mousse, Rhizome or Triple Canopy. From 1995 to 2005, he curated the New York Underground Film Festival, and he has curated screenings and exhibitions at Artists Space, New York, ICA, London, der Tate Modern, London or at the Museum of Modern Art, New York or the New Museum, New York beyond many others.

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