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Secret Traveler Navigator

Presented by UCI, Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine

September 30-November 20, 2010

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SECRET TRAVELER NAVIGATOR
A solo project by Erika Vogt
Opening Reception Thursday, September 30, 6-9 pm
September 30 - November 20, 2010

Room Gallery continues its Emerging Artist Series with Erika Vogt’s interdisciplinary installation, Secret Traveler Navigator, which premiered at the 2010 Whitney Biennial. The work’s main component is a film that blurs the boundaries between what Peter Wollen designated as the narrative and structuralist historical avant-gardes. In so doing, the work begs the question: what is a narrative? And, by extension, what is a journey? Structurally, the film is an episodic narrative, wherein different scenes repeat similar abstract images or specific activities, while metaphorically it is also an abstract representation of a compass that’s been broken down into parts. After the viewer has navigated their journey through these abstract and real signs, a voiceover is heard: The narrator, a man of shimmering devices, has lost his way. To go back or forward? Obtuse in storyline but hypnotic in visual affect, Vogt’s Secret Traveler Navigator is a mediation on what Hollis Frampton asked at the height of 60’s experimental film: What are the irreducible axioms of that part of thought we call the art of film? This remains a pertinent question in contemporary art, one to which we can neither simply return nor abandon. Curated by Juli Carson.
 

 

Located at UCI's University Art Gallery / Room Gallery
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine
712 Arts Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-2775
 

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    September 30-November 20, 2010

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