Reading and Screening | Temporary Services presents—Framing The Artists: Artists & Art in Film & Television

Free

Swiss Institute
18 Wooster St.
New York, NY 10013

On the occasion of FADE IN: INT. ART GALLERY – DAY,  Temporary Services will present a video from their 2005 project “Framing The Artists: Artists & Art in Film & Television” and Temporary Services group member Marc Fischer will read “film reviews” from their publication of the same name. “Fictional representations of art and biographical films about dead artists are common in mainstream media, despite the lack of concern with living visual artists and their projects. So what do these representations reveal to us about artists and their work? Many depictions center on artists’ unusual behavior, love affairs, or self-destruction through drugs and alcohol. Jokes about not being able to understand modern art are endless. Very few biographies of actual or fictive artists seriously attempt to consider the artist’s creative process in a nuanced way. Framing The Artists is an overview of many examples of these characterizations. Our reviews are but a few examples of portrayals of artists and their work in film and television. We watched hundreds of hours of video and concede that our research barely scratched the surface.” -Temporary Services