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Paul Pfeiffer, the 2000-2001 Bucksbaum Award
winner, talks about his video pieces at Youth Insights'
Artists + Youth: A Dialogue. |
Artist + Youth: a Dialogue hosted Paul Pfeiffer on February
7, 2002. His video clips of Muhammad Ali boxing matches were being
displayed on the first floor of the Whitney Museum.
Paul Pfeiffer takes images from popular culture and then alters
them to remove them from familiar contexts. Pfeiffer loops video
clips taken from various sources, often movies or televised sporting
events to create uncomfortable endless moments. Pfeiffer has also
removed the main subject from photographs and videos. The erasure
of the images leaves painterly ghosts. All of Pfeiffer's work leaves
you more aware of the art of viewing and the role of the spectator.
RESPONSES/ OPINIONS OF TWO YOUTH INSIGHTS PARTICIPANTS:
Emily: "The Paul Pfeiffer Dialogue was very dynamic--mixing
video and slide presentation. Paul Pfeiffer was outwardly friendly
and his enthusiasm about his work spread to the audience."
Christina: "My favorite part of the dialogue was when he showed
us a snippet of the film he had on display in the subway walkway
down at of the World Trade Center buildings. It was a video of eggs
turning into chickens. It was the entire development in real-time.
I thought that was so amazing because it's really there for the
people of New York that commute in the same subway walkthrough every
single day. Anyone else who just saw it once would never understand
it. The video really showed her life was born and then how it ended
when the chickens were sent to a slaughterhouse, in the span of
just a few months. I was really glad we saw that piece of Pfeiffer's,
even though it was not on display at the Whitney."
© 2002
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
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