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Video Data Bank Newsletter
October 2021
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The Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the acquisition and distribution of the moving image works of internationally exhibited artist Hans Breder (1935-2017). In a career spanning six decades, Breder’s sensibility was expressed in and between painting, sculpture, photography, music, installation, video and film--each expression an invitation to subversive liminality and momentary transcendence. Breder’s work dissolves boundaries and manipulates perception, sometimes enticing, sometimes shocking the observer to an experience of liminality from which a realm of pure possibility may emerge.
One of the first video artists whose work was included in three Whitney Biennials, Breder founded the Intermedia Program in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa in 1968 and directed it until his retirement as F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor in 2000. The internationally regarded program was built on Breder’s interdisciplinary inclination for intellectual and aesthetic collision.
The VDB has been working with Breder’s representative, Adam Burke (media artist and documentarian who worked as an assistant to Breder from 2014 to 2017), to preserve his titles and prepare them for distribution. To celebrate the launch of the Hans Breder archive at VDB, Burke and the VDB team have selected this program for VDB TV of six titles as a representative introduction.
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About VDB TV:
VDB TV is a rotating series of groundbreaking programs presenting essential video art, streaming free for the first time to the general public on the Video Data Bank website. From early media pioneers, to sensational contemporary artists, VDB TV provides unprecedented access to the culturally significant Video Data Bank archive of more than 600 artists and 6,000 video art titles. VDB TV is curated by prominent programmers and moving image art specialists. To advance accessibility to the VDB collection, all programs included within VDB TV feature closed captions for the hearing impaired.
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We’ve Moved!
We are excited to announce that the Video Data Bank has moved our offices and archives. We are only one block away from our former location, and we are still on the campus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The past couple of months were bitter-sweet as we packed up and relocated from our home of the past 27 years, but we are now mostly unpacked and settling into the new space nicely. We look forward to continuing our service to our users and the artists represented in our collection. In mid November, our screening room and library will once again be open by appointment, and we are excited to engage with students and researchers. Our mailing address will remain the same, but if you are visiting us in person, you will need to go to a different building.
Same Mailing/Shipping Address:
Video Data Bank
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603
Same Phone Number and Email:
(312) 345-3550
info@vdb.org
New In-Person Location:
36 S. Wabash Ave.
14th Floor - Suite 1400
Currently visitors are accepted by appointment only, and must wear a mask at all times.
Contact us if you would like to make an in-person appointment (info@vdb.org.)
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Future From Inside, Dani and Sheilah ReStack's newest work, will have its world premiere at MoMA on November 3rd, 2021 at 7PM EST as a part of an in-person experimental shorts screening program that will also include Michael Robinson's newest work, Polycephaly in D. Tickets for the screening will be available October 27th, 2021.
Congratulations to Deborah Stratman for being selected as a fellow for Union Doc's 2022 The UNDO Fellowship! This fellowship aims to support and study inventive methods of nonfiction filmmaking, seeking to understand how such works operates in the world and engages with progressive social movements.
Shu Lea Cheang's Sex Fish is currently available for free online streaming as a part of the Walker Art Center's Collection Playlist series until November 8th, 2021. The film is also available to view on-site in the Bentson Mediatheque during gallery hours.
Sabine Gruffat's Moving or Being Moved will be screened in-person at the 24th Annual Antimatter Media Art Festival on October 22nd, 2021 at 6PM PST at the Deluge Contemporary Art gallery. Tickets are available here.
Gruffat will also be presenting an in-person program of her work along with a live-cinema performance featuring Bill Brown at the Athens International Film and Video Festival on October 22nd, 2021 at 7:30 PM EST. Tickets are available for in-person purchasing only at the Athens Cinema.
Kevin B. Lee's Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox will be screened in-person at the 22nd annual San Diego Asian Film Festival on October 30th, 2021 at 2:30 PM PST as a part of the shorts program, Space Was The Place. The films in this program explore the histories that reside in plain sight in these spatial stories of punk in Little Tokyo, Platoon under the BevMo! awning, soap opera anthems amidst social unrest, and all that is buried, lost, and endures in the architectures around us.
Congratulations to John Smith for his film, Citadel, being awarded the Grand Prix at the Festival International du Film d'Architecture!, Bordeaux!
And congratulations to Mary Patten for receiving a Make a Wave award from 3Arts! Make a Wave is an artist-to-artist giving program that erases the traditional gatekeeper by inviting each of the previous year’s 3Arts Award recipients to select another artist to receive a surprise grant from 3Arts—in effect sending a wave through Chicago’s brilliant cultural core.
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