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Steve Fagin: The Surfing Memory Syndrome

Presented by UCI, Claire Trevor School of the Arts at The University Art Gallery and Room Gallery

January 8-February 7, 2009

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The University Art Gallery (UAG) continues its Major Works of Art Series with Steve Fagin's The Surfing Memory Syndrome. This multi-media installation features Fagin's 2003 film Oliver Kahn, named after the famous soccer player from Bayern Munich. The film is not a biography of the player but rather a montage of famous moments in European soccer that Fagin alternately watches, reenacts and comments upon. Neither is the film an homage to soccer. Rather Oliver Kahn is a dizzying detour into the question of memory ? how it is constructed and/or reconstructed. In the film Fagin ponders the strange act of watching "old fart" soccer matches from the 70s. "As an American I have no childhood memories of soccer," he explains. "Can you be a true supporter without memories of ecstatic victory and traumatic loss? Well maybe you don't need the triumphs. But the defeats?one's soul would be lost without them." Defeat, in particular, is the psychoanalytic precept that fuels the "machine" that constructs both memory and its loss. But it takes a detective to unpack the operation of such a machine - how it hums along, churns about and momentarily breaks down. This is the work of Steve Fagin's art. Opening Reception: 6:00pm-9:00pm in the Room Gallery and the University Art gallery.

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    The University Art Gallery and Room Gallery

    4000 Mesa Road
    Irvine, CA 92697

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    January 8-February 7, 2009

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    Tuesday-Saturday 12:00pm-6:00pm

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