1. Contemporary Video Art/ part1

2. Matthew Barney ( )
His work encompasses sculpture, photography, drawing and film. Mostly known for his “Cremaster” series. In the 90s, moved to New York and worked as a male model for J.Crew catalogues – a career that helped him finance his early work as an artist. Barney is married to Bjork, a very famous singer from Iceland.

3. Matthew Barney
Barney’s epic Cremaster Cycle (1994–2002) consists of 5 feature-length films that explore processes of creation. Its conceptual departure point is the cremaster muscle, which is part of the male reproduction system. As the cycle evolved over eight years, Barney looked beyond biology as a way to explore the creation of form, employing narrative models from other realms, such as biography, mythology, and geology.

4. Matthew Barney Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) consisting of:
a feature length 35mm film
large-scale sculptures
photographs, drawings, and books
Drawing Restraint 9 is an unconventional
love story set in Japan. The narrative
structure is built upon themes such
as the Shinto religion, the tea ceremony,
the history of whaling, etc.

5. Matthew Barney

6. Matthew Barney

7. Drawing Restraint Synopsis
The story takes place at a Japanese oil refinery, a truck loaded with hot petroleum jelly is paraded from the factory to the harbour. The procession, led by animals, is flanked by hundreds of rejoicing Japanese as it arrives abreast an enormous whaling ship where the jelly is pumped into a mould on deck. The ship departs, and during the weeks of the voyage, the mass of petroleum jelly cools. Meanwhile, below deck, a western couple are falling in love as they are served bowls of tea. As the voyage continues, the tea room slowly fills up with a fluid. The western couple become enveloped in it and slowly transform. As the ship reaches the Southern Ocean, amongst a backdrop of luminous icebergs we behold the de-moulding of the sculpture...

8. Drawing Restraint 9, 2005 – Movie Trailer
Matthew Barney
Drawing Restraint 9, 2005 – Movie Trailer
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney’s interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.

9. Matthew Barney
PBS Art 21 Series

10. Bill Viola Is one of today’s leading video artists
Designs environments that envelop
the viewer in image and sound
Employs state-of the-art technologies
Main focus - universal human experiences:
birth, death, rebirth
the unfolding of consciousness
His art has roots in both Eastern
and Western art and philosophy

11. Bill Viola
Bill Viola’s work ranges from single videotapes to immersive architectural video installations including video projections, sound and sometimes physical objects. Deeply involved in Buddhism, Viola is preoccupied with the inner or spiritual-self and the boundaries of consciousness. Since the death of his parents and birth of his children in the 1990s his work has often drawn on his own life to explore recurring themes of birth, death, self discovery and personal transformation.

12. Bill Viola
Got his first camera in the 60s and made his first art video in In this interview Viola talks about one of his latest projects Ocean Without a Shore, installed in a San Gallo church in Venice.

13. Referencing Old Masters
“I am interested in what the old masters didn’t paint,
those steps in between.” - Bill Viola
Christ Carrying the Cross,
Hieronymus Bosch,
The Quintet of the Astonished, Bill Viola, 2000
(video rear projection on wall-mounted screen)

14. Referencing Old Masters
The Visitation, Jacopo da Pontormo, 16th Cent. (left)
The Greeting, Bill Viola, 1995 (right)

15. The Making of Emergence - Interview
Bill Viola
The Making of Emergence - Interview