IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK BOULOS
LACE – Hollywood, CA
2/21/09
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Please join LACE on Saturday, February 21st from 11am to 1pm for a presentation and conversation with Mark Boulos, whose video installation All that is Solid Melts into Air is currently featured in Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008.  The presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion.

The event is co-hosted by Pitzer College Media Studies Program, Pitzer Art Galleries and LACE.  There will also be a free complimentary light brunch served.

LOCATION:
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90028

ABOUT MARK BOULOS
Mark Boulos (Boston, 1975) lives and works in London, UK and Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. He has shown his work at the ICA, Hayward Gallery and Barbican
Gallery, London. He received awards from Film London, the Arts Council
England, and the Fulbright Center in Amsterdam. Boulos was formerly a member
of the activist collective Paper Tiger Television. All that Melts into Air
has been shown at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and concurrently
premiered at the 16th Biennale of Sydney: ŒRevolutions-Forms That Turn¹ and
at the Swiss Art Awards during Art Basel 2008.

ABOUT NARROWCAST: REFRAMING GLOBAL VIDEO 1986/2008
Curated by Pitzer Art Galleries Director/Curator Ciara Ennis and Associate
Professor of Media Studies Ming-Yuen S. Ma, this exhibition is part of
Resolution 3, a collaboration between Pitzer College’s Media Studies
program, Pitzer Art Galleries and LACE on the occasion of LACE’s thirtieth
anniversary.

Narrowcast re-presents selected works from LACE’s seminal 1986 video
exhibition Resolution: A Critique of Video Art and pairs them in compelling
and unexpected ways with contemporary works, thus framing the medium’s brief
history both formally and thematically. Resolution was one of the first
exhibitions in the United States to embrace video as a serious art form and
to discuss it in critical terms. Revisiting Resolution in relation to a
number of exceptional contemporary video works demonstrates the influence
that video art has had on artistic practice over the past two decades and
testifies to the pivotal role and ubiquitous presence that the medium has in
the contemporary global art world.

The ten selected artists in Narrowcast‹five historical: Lyn Blumenthal, Juan
Downey, Antonio Muntadas in collaboration with Marshall Reese, Michael
Smith, Bill Viola and five contemporary: Natalie Bookchin, Mark Boulos,
Regina José Galindo, Pablo Pijnappel, Artur Zmijewski‹re-present Resolution
in a way that emphasizes resonance and precedence rather than a
comprehensive survey. And while the selected works, one from each artist, do
not fit into neat categories, Curators Ennis and Ma have found historically
significant connections that highlight the multi-layered and fragmented
narratives inherent in both the archival and contemporary works.

Narrowcast is on view at LACE through 1 March 2009.

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