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“LA
Freewaves: New Videos by Oliver Ressler” Opens at the
Pomona College Museum of Art
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“LA Freewaves: New Videos by Oliver Ressler” will present
two recent films by Oliver Ressler—the United States
premiere of Ressler’s newest film, The Fittest Survive; and
5 Factories: Worker Control in Venezuela, a 2006
collaboration between Ressler and Dario Azzellini. The
exhibition will be on view November 5 through December 17,
2006. An opening reception will be held at the The Pomona
College Museum of Art from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday,
November 5.
This exhibition is presented in collaboration with LA
Freewaves, an online magnet for the media arts that is a
grassroots yet global arts organization connecting
innovative, relevant, independent new media from around the
world.
Oliver Ressler is an internationally exhibiting video
artist. Many of Ressler’s works are realized as
collaborations: the ongoing project Boom! with the U.S.
artist David Thorne <http://www.speculativearchive.org> ,
the videos Venezuela from Below and Disobbedienti with the
political analyst Dario Azzellini <http://www.azzellini.net>
, and numerous projects on racism and migration with artist
Martin Krenn <http://www.martinkrenn.net> . Oliver Ressler
was born in Knittelfeld, Austria, in 1970, and lives and
works in Vienna.
The Fittest Survive consists of footage filmed during a
five-day “Surviving Hostile Regions” training course by the
AKE Group in January 2006 in Wales, Great Britain. The
course instructors are British ex-special force soldiers and
the participants are mainly business people, government
officials, and mainstream journalists who are preparing for
work in Iraq and other dangerous regions. Primarily filmed
by hand camera, the video follows the survival-course
participants as they experience the staged reality of live
shell bombardments, an assault by armed guerrillas, the
rescue of accident victims, and moving through mine fields.
5 Factories: Worker Control in Venezuela documents the
changes in Venezuela’s productive sphere as demonstrated by
five large companies in various regions: a textile company,
aluminum works, a tomato factory, a cocoa factory, and a
paper factory. In all, the workers are struggling for
different forms of co- or self-management supported in part
by the government. The protagonists portrayed at the five
production locations present insights into alternative
organizational models of workers’ control. The film examines
the mechanisms and difficulties of self-organization and
strategies for various production processes.
LA Freewaves facilitates cross-cultural dialogues by
inventing dynamic new media exhibition forms at experimental
and established venues throughout Los Angeles. With its 10th
biennial festival of film, video, and experimental new media
art, Freewaves launches “Too Much Freedom?” in early
November at venues across Los Angeles. The festival, of
which Pomona College is part, presents over 150 artists,
selected by 10 international curators, and opens officially
at the UCLA Hammer Museum on November 3.
The Pomona College Museum of Art is located at 330 N.
College Avenue, Claremont. The museum is open to the public,
free of charge, Tuesday through Friday, from noon to 5 p.m.,
and Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. For more
information, call (909) 621-8283 or visit www.pomona.edu/museum
<http://www.pomona.edu/museum> .
The Pomona College Museum of Art collects, preserves,
exhibits, and interprets works of art. The Museum houses a
substantial permanent collection as well as serving as a
gallery for the display of temporary exhibitions. Important
holdings include the Kress Collection of 15th- and
16th-century Italian panel paintings; more than 5,000
examples of Pre-Columbian to 20th-century American Indian
art and artifacts, including basketry, ceramics, and
beadwork; and a large collection of American and European
prints, drawings, and photographs, including works by
Francisco de Goya, José Clemente Orozco, and Rico Lebrun. |
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