Dara Birnbaum

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Dara Birnbaum

Dara Birnbaum (* 1946 in New York ) is an American video and installation artist .

Life

Birnbaum studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute . This was followed by training in video editing in New York City. In 1978 she had a teaching position at NSCAD University in Halifax where she worked with Dan Graham . Dara Birnbaum lives and works in New York.

Birnbaum has been working with the medium of television since the late 1970s. She questions the external visual worlds, the forms of expression and the manipulative effect of this mass medium. In terms of content, she examines the myth of femininity with the help of personal and social knowledge. Early on, she was committed to equating video art with classical art and took part in the feminist art movement .

Her best-known works from this period include: Technology / Transformation : Wonder Woman (1978 to 1979) . With relevant images from the television series, she tries to subvert the inherent ideology of the eponymous series heroine. In the mid-1980s she began with large, room-filling installations. Rio Videowall (1987 to 1989) is the first permanent video installation in the public space of a shopping center. In it, she cuts images of the original location on 25 monitors with CNN sequences that break through the images of nature.

In Hostage (1993 until 1994) is about the media presence of political events. Birnbaum works on the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer in 1977. Another work is: Kiss the Girls and Make them Cry from 1979 , The Trilogy Damnation of Faust with the parts: Evocation (1983) , Will-O'-The-Wisp (1985) and Charming Landscape (1987) are based on Goethe's text and the music of Berlioz .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Monograph: The Dark Matter of Media Light, 2010 ISBN 978-3791351247
  • Hoffmann, Jens (Ed.): The next Documenta should be curated by an artist, Frankfurt / M. 2004 ISBN 3-936919-05-4
  • Dara Birnbaum: Exhibition catalog. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marian Goodman Gallery via Dara Birnbaum.Retrieved April 15, 2013
  2. ^ Danube University Krems Dara Birnbaum Accessed on April 15, 2013
  3. ↑ Medienkunstnetz Retrieved April 15, 2013
  4. ↑ museums platform nrw Retrieved April 15, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Birnbaum, Dara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH new York