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May 18, 2016 as part of a reinstallation of its contemporary art galleries, moma is setting aside space for several roomsize installations, including ourslers immersive. You could say that tony ourslers imponderable makes a good historical reader for these shows. They employ every tactic, every hint of proof, and every defensive justification to protect their creations from collapse. Oursler has been collecting thousands of supernatural and occult books, objects, photographs, and other ephemera stretching back to the 19th century, and his archive is eclectic and vast. Jacquelene drinkall and warren neidich tony oursler s work with the technology of projectors and optimizes the notion of psychic television, using art to focus on how the televisual projector, like television sets and monitor before it, inherently signify euphoric and sinister telepathic exchange and. One collaborator and friend was the prominent multimedia artist tony oursler. Ourslers archive is the mother lode of all things occult. One wonderful thing was that i had this big project this book that i published called imponderable.
With meghan auld, jon campolo, enver chakartash, cody defranco. The archives of tony oursler in jrpringiers fascinating, epic, 666page artist book occult ephemera compendium imponderable. It is an extension of the luma arles archive, 4d film, and catalogue project imponderable. Oursler was profiled by the magazine mens vogue in 2007. As part of a reinstallation of its contemporary art galleries, moma is setting aside space for several roomsize installations, including oursler s immersive. Imponderable the curator stuart comer has converted a hefty chunk of the museums inhospitable second floor into a trickedout movie theatre, screening a new featurelength black. Tony ourslers spooky archive is coming to arles art.
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