TERRA COGNITA MOVING IMAGE INSTALLATION SERIES
[September 14-23 • Various Locations • free admission]

For more information, contact Elana Logsdon, Terra Cognita Director

Installation series presents works by internationally acclaimed artists from New York, Dublin, Cologne, and elsewhere - the only such exhibition in the South and Southwest, one of few in the world. Opening reception Friday, September 14, 6:00 pm Ancient Gallery, 920 Congress Avenue

The Terra Cognita moving image installation series began in 2000 as part of the fifth annual Cinematexas International Short Film Festival in Austin, Texas. The first and only international platform for the presentation of projected image installations in the Southwest, Terra Cognita offers a forum for collaboration between local and visiting artists in the fields of sound, architecture, design, engineering, programming, performance, film, photography, painting, and sculpture.

highlights

DOUBLE BURNING JAGGED EXTREMITIES
by Anne Bray and Molly Cleator
Ancient Gallery Sept. 14-16, 6-9pm
Reception 6-9pm, Fri. Sept. 14

DOUBLE BURNING JAGGED EXTREMITIES involves images projected onto three fifteen-foot inflating and deflating female figures. The images are tightly edited clips of women being killed in real time, taken from 25 feature films, played forward and in reverse so that they are killed and un-killed as the figures rise and fall.

10,000 HILLS OF LANGUAGE

by Leslie Thornton
Fire Henry's Bed & Breakfast
Sept. 17-21, 8-11pm
Reception 8-11pm, Mon. Sept. 17
catered by Ruby's BBQ and St. Arnold's Brewery

Leslie Thornton is a leading figure in the international field of experimental film and video art. Once a painter and a student of the early stars of the film avant-garde, she has produced a distinctly original body of work. Subject of numerous retrospective screenings, academic articles, awards, and grants, ThorntonÕs place in art history is secured by the ongoing project Peggy and Fred in Hell (1985-). Her latest incarnation of the project manifests itself in the media installation entitled The 10,000 Hills of Language (in progress) in which a phantasmatic breeding-ground of language is constructed and exercised. She will do a site-specific installation of this work in a glass pavilion off Interstate-35.

I THOUGHT I WAS SEEING CONVICTS

by Harun Farocki
Center for Mexican American Cultural Arts
Sept 22+23, 12pm-6pm
Reception Sept. 21, 8pm-12pm

Harun Farocki has been closely related to the political and avant-garde scenes of Europe for over thirty years, making films which run the gamut of social experience. He will present "I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts," a moving image installation made using surveillance footage from Corcoran Maximum Security Prison in California at the Center for Mexican American Cultural Arts. This installation emphasizes the social relationship between the one who fires and the one who films; between the one with force and the one who take shots. A Berlin-based artist, Farocki was recently the subject of a complete retrospective at the MoMA in New York.

NAVIGATOR

by Rosa Barba
Studio 107
Sept. 15-23, 6-8pm
Reception Sept. 15, 6-8pm,
catered by Jeffrey's Restaurant

Rosa Barba is an emerging Cologne-based artist whose work has shown through primarily through the underground electronic music circuit. She will present a 16mm filminstallation and photography piece called, Navigator. Rosa Barba elevates the film projector itself to an object of wonder, in its role as the more or less steadily beating steel heart at the center of the cinematic experience. As the projected film moves throughout the exhibition space, the spectator navigates that space to view different levels of the story.

BI/POLAR

by Luke Savisky
Austin Museum of Art-Laguna Gloria
Sept. 19, 9pm

AustinÕs own projection legend Luke Savisky once again will light up the banks of the Colorado River Lagoon with his multple 16mm projection installations, preceding Cinemaker Co-ops screening of local super-8 talent.

KIMPO

by David Phillips and Paul Rowley

MONOTYPE MOVEMENT

by Gabel Karsten

DECKED: THE RISE OF THE NEW MALE SPECTACLE

by Julia Halperin

SELECTED WORKS BY POSTER ARTIST JULIOELOY MESA AND PHILOSOPHER TOM ZUMMER

Davis Gallery
Sept. 18 - 21, 10am - 6pm,
Sept. 22, 10am - 4pm
Reception Sept. 20, 5:30-8:30pm.
catered by Chipotle and St. Arnold's Brewery

GINNY BLOTCHER / LORI SURFER / BEN COONLEY / KAREN SKLOSS

Shifting away from the format of big screens in theaters, these artists will present their installations in public spaces throughtout the city, making their new works of art accessible to all audiences.

For more information, to request a full list and description of participating artists and their works, for a complete schedule of events, or for photographic materials contact:

Elana Logsdon, Terra Cognita Director