Video Installation Galleries

March 13 - September 12

Humor and a sense of absurdity take center stage in Cheekwood’s next video installation as six artists help us laugh at some of life’s most challenging issues. Do-It-Yourself aesthetics, pop culture satire, polymorphous role-playing and a good dose of social and political culture
busting infect the invented worlds of this disparate group. Generationally, nationally and culturally diverse, all share a love of humor as a means of teasing out the absurdities of social convention, the need for love and comfort, daily rituals and contemporary communication. Identity, as it
responds to the changing cultural landscape, is the central character in these happenings meet situation comedies meet soap operas. 

October 9 2010 - February 20 2011

The invention of photography allowed the world to explore the intricacies of motion, and this installation explores the art of capturing movement through a lens. The Way We Move features video that captures the motion of the human body, bringing together historical and contemporary video artists’ work to examine the way our bodies manipulate space and time. These artists approach movement in different ways; through structuralism, pop culture, contemporary dance, and humor. Artists include Peer Bode, Barbara Hammer, Robert Campbell, Aurelia Mihai, Jeff Daniel Silva, and a collaboration of Monica Panzarino and Nadine Sobel. The Way We Move offers insight into the development of the medium of video art over a thirty-year span. 

Ron Lambert, Guest Curator