Irit Batsry

Irit Batsry (* 1957 in Ramat Gan , Israel ) is an American-Israeli photographer , installation and video artist .

life and work

At the University Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Irit Batsry received in 1982 a degree in Video Studies.

In 1983 she moved to New York City , where she worked as a lecturer and online editor for the art magazine Film / Video Arts . At the turn of 2002/2003, Batsry had a large exhibition with video installations in the Biosphère building (Montreal) , which was originally built as the American pavilion at the World Expo 1967 in honor of Buckminster Fuller and is currently used as a water and environment museum. Batsry developed a site-specific interactive concept that made it possible to experience and expand the aesthetics of the “ geodetic dome” designed by Fuller .

Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art , New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art .

In Europe, Irit Batsry was artist in residence from 1992 to 1993 at the French CICV Montbéliard-Belfort (Center International de Création Vidéo Montbeliard Belfort), from 1993 to 2000 at the Cologne Art Academy for Media , in 1994 and 1996 at the same time at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris . She was present with installations and videos in well-known European art institutions. In autumn 2006 there was a multi-day video retrospective at the Paris Museum of Contemporary Art Jeu de Paume .

Batsry's adopted home has consistently been New York City since 1983. However, she often spent months working on her videos in Europe, for example at the CICV Montbéliard - Belfort (Center international de création vidéo) or in the workshops of the Art Academy for Media in Cologne .

Videos

• Slightly less than a saint , 20 min. 1982
• A Simple Case of Vision , 12 min. 1991
• Passage to Utopia , trilogy, 88 min. 1985 - 1993:
  • Stories From the Old Ruin , 15 min. 1986
  • Leaving The Old Ruin , 34 min. 1989
  • Traces of a Presence to Come , 39 min. 1993
• These Are Not My Images (neither there nor here) , 80 min. 2000. In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York

Video installations

• Giacometti's Scale , Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne 1995
• Fuller's flow , Biosphère, Montreal 2003
• Set , multimedia installation, Whitney Museum 2004, New York
• Beach at Nightfall , Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art 2009, Israel

Awards

• 2002 Bucksbaum Award
• 2001 Video Prize of the collecting and compensation company SCAM (France) for It is not my pictures (neither there nor here)
• 1992 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1996, 2001 Grand Prix of the Video de Création of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris
• 1990, 1995 Grand Prix at the Locarno Video Festival
• 1994, 2001 Main Prize at the International Video Festival Vigo , Spain, broadcast date on ARTE : 06/06/2001 for It is not my pictures (neither there nor here) (80 min)
• 1991 Best International Artistic Contribution at the Cádiz Festival
• 1989 Main Prize at the Australian Video Festival , Sydney
• 1989 Main Prize at the San Francisco Poetry Film Festival

Web links

• Web presence of the video artist
• Caution / Danger Street Life video clip on the web
• Irit Batsry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entries in Arthistoricum.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Medienkunstnetz: Biographical information on Irit Batsry
2. ↑ Batsry-Alumni entry of the Bezalel Academy ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Angela Plohman for the Langlois Foundation 2000: Overview essay on Batsry's works
4. ↑ digi-arts UNESCO Knowledge Portal Profile Irit Batsry ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Irit Batsry: Fuller's Flow (photo and explanation)
6. ↑ Artis contemporary: Artist Profile Irit Batrsy ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Irit Batsry: rétrospective vidéo. In: Galerie du Jeu de Paume. 2006, accessed March 17, 2012 (French). 
8. ↑ "IN PERSON Irit Batsry"
9. ↑ Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln: fellows ( memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ^ [1] Video stills: Slightly Less Than a Saint
11. ↑ [2] Video stills: A Simple Case of Vision
12. ^ [3] Video stills: Stories From the Old Ruin
13. ^ [4] Video stills: Leaving the Old Ruin
14. ↑ [5] Video stills: Traces of a Presence to Come
15. ↑ [6] Video stills: These Are Not My Images (neither there nor here)
16. ↑ MOMA Special Screening: Irit Batsry's These Are Not My Images (neither there nor here), February 7, 2004
17. ↑ Irit Batsry. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, accessed on March 17, 2012 . 
18. ↑ See Press Release, whitney.org: november_2003_bucksbaum_award_.pdf
19. ↑ Los Angeles Times, March 2009: Review of Batsry Exhibition
20. ^ Roberta Smith in the New York Times, January 9, 2004: ART REVIEW; Getting Caravaggio From Video, With Several Hearts of Darkness , accessed March 13, 2012
21. ↑ ^{a b} Grand Prize International Video Festival Vigo 2001 ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ Batsry profile on VideoPool.org