AWGTHTGTWTA
More Art | Triangle Plaza, 14th Street and 9th Avenue | New York, NY, 10011 |
Oct. 2 - Nov. 2, 2008
On view will be a new video work by Tony Oursler to be screened in the Fulton Houses Playground on 17th Street between 9th and 10th Avenue. AWGTHTGTWTA (Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?) explores the dreams of students from Liberty High School (West 17th Street) and Clinton Middle School (West 21st Street). Oursler asked these teens, many recent immigrants, to choose their ideal or fantasy place. The resulting video work incorporates excerpts of student texts while addressing compulsive online gaming, shorthand sms text messaging, and youtube improvisational recordings that characterize their world. The audience will be able to interact with the work by sending text messages to a designated cell phone number, which will scroll across the screen in real time.
Tony Oursler was born in new york in 1957. He completed a BA in fine arts at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California in 1979. His art covers a range of mediums working with video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. Oursler's work has been exhibited in prestigious institutions including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Documenta VIII, IX, Kassel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Skulptur Projekte, Munster, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, the tate, Liverpool. The artist currently lives and works in New York City.