Art Viewer Screen Anthology
published by Holoholo Books
January—December 2017
Co-curated with Marion Vasseur Raluy
With videos by Alexey Vanushkin, Danielle Dean, Alex Wissel, Ilana Harris-Babou, Adrien Genty, Lila De Magalhaes, Christophe Herreros, Luzie Meyer, Christopher Kline, Masaya Chiba, Boru O’Brien O’Connell, and Liv Schulman.
Texts by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy, Catherine Ermakoff, Sean Fabi, Natalia Rólon, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Nicole Kaack, Midori Matsui, Keith J. Varadi.

Launch and screening at
The Community, Paris, April 18, 2018
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, May 25, 2018

still from Luzie Meyer, The Balcony, 2016

Art Viewer, an online platform that promotes contemporary art through a curated selection of documented art exhibitions and events, invited us to curate the Screen video section during 2017. We decided to explore the stage as related to the boundaries of theater and contemporary video art via texts published with the selected videos.

The twelve invited artists presented existing and commissioned videos that, in more or less explicit ways, invoke a relationship to the stage.

This Screen program is now becoming a book published with Holoholo Books. In addition to the texts and interventions published alongside the videos, this book is a presentation of complementary texts, on or adjacent to their practices. This book also represents the first time that these varied approaches to the stage and mise-en-scène come together. Unfolding a program over a year allowed us to play out our reflections in myriad directions and forms, sometimes with results far from what was initially imagined. A multiplicity of voices brought to one platform—to one stage—became a conceptual grounding for this year-long project. For us too, this book is the occasion to consider as a whole the disparate musings of these artists and writers on what relevance the stage might have today.

This book is an online video program become object. Many of the texts were written with the assumption that the video would be available to view in the same browser window. It is an attempt to translate a project of various temporalities into fixity and cohesion. The Art Viewer website served as one stage for a specific presentation of video and texts. This publication takes the same material and re-imagines it for another one.