Dara Birnbaum – Karen Kelly Aanbieding

For more than thirty years, Dara Birnbaum has occupied a crucial yet unique position in the field of video art and installation, with provocative and influential works that incisively critique the mass media and its effects on audience. This survey addresses the dearth of serious critical writing on Birnbaum’s innovative artistic activity. The maturation of her work in the late 1970s and early 1980s was accompanied by a distinctive awareness of the medium’s dominant form: commercial television. She has enga…