Arcadia University Art Gallery presents JG: a new film project by Tacita Dean

Media relations and consulting for new film project by an internationally acclaimed artist

Arcadia University Art Gallery is pleased to announce the presentation of JG by internationally acclaimed British-born, Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean. Commissioned by and made for the gallery, and funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, JG will be on view from February 7 through April 21, 2013.

JG is a sequel in technique to FILM, Dean’s 2011 project for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. It is inspired by her correspondence with British author J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) regarding connections between Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork and film Spiral Jetty (both works, 1970) and Ballard’s short story The Voices of Time (1960). The new 26-minute work is a looped 35mm anamorphic film shot on location in the saline landscapes of Utah and Southern California using Dean’s recently developed and patented system of aperture gate masking. A radical departure from her previous 16mm films, JG tries to respond to Ballard’s challenge, posed to her shortly before he died, that Dean should “treat the Spiral Jetty as a mystery her film would solve.”

Organized by Arcadia University Art Gallery Director Richard Torchia, the exhibition will commence with a lecture by Dean in the Great Hall of the University Commons, Thursday,Feb. 7, at 6:30 PM, and a reception in the gallery at 7:30. (Admission is free but reservations are required and can be made at arcadia.edu/tacitadean.) 

Read the full press release announcing Tacita Dean’s film project at Arcadia.

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Arcadia University is a top-ranked private university in metropolitan Philadelphia and a national leader in study abroad and international education. The 2012 Open Doors report ranks Arcadia University #1 in the nation in undergraduate study abroad. U.S. News also ranks Arcadia’s Physical Therapy program among the top 14 in the nation. Arcadia’s Physician Assistant students score in the elite 4th percentile on national boards. Arcadia University promises a distinctively global, integrative and personal learning experience that prepares students to contribute and prosper in a diverse and dynamic world. 

Arcadia University Art Gallery Presents “Depicting the Psychology, Society & Aesthetics of the Future,” a Lecture by V. Vale, San Francisco-based Publisher of RE/Search

 

GLENSIDE, Pa. (April 5, 2013) – On Wednesday, April 10, Arcadia University Art Gallery presents “Mythographer of the 21st Century: J. G. Ballard and Ballardian Aesthetics (Depicting the Psychology, Society & Aesthetics of the Future),” a lecture by writer, musician and publisher V. Vale. Free and open to the public, Vale’s lecture is at 6:30 p.m. in the Commons Great Room on Arcadia’s main campus (450 S. Easton Road, Glenside, Pa.), with a reception at 5:30 p.m.

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Courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London/Marian Goodman Gallery, Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Color and black & white anamorphic 35mm film with optical sound, 26½ minutes
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Courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London/Marian Goodman Gallery, Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Color and black & white anamorphic 35mm film with optical sound, 26½ minutes
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