SUPER 8 is an artist-curated, video art exhibition organized by the Los Angeles-based Christopher Grimes Gallery, where it first premiered July 8 through September 3, 2011. This ambitious video exhibition features the works of forty international contemporary artists. For this exhibition the gallery invited eight artists to curate a week-long program with fellow artists from their respective cities. Each week SUPER 8 focuses on a different city: Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Within that week, a day is dedicated to the work of one artist. In addition to highlighting key video artists, SUPER 8 contextualizes their work within a global community of artists working in the same medium. Super 8 / Part 1 was presented from March 1st through March 21st, 2012 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. The participating artists of Super 8 / Part 2 are from Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and Tokyo.
Programm
| Fri, 17.8.2012 | SUPER 8 / Part I John Smith // Worst Case Scenario, 2001-2003 London. Kuratoren: Wood & Harrison |
San Francisco |
Curator: Richard T. Walker |
| Sat, 18.8.2012 | Richard T. Walker // The hierarchy of relevance, 2010 |
| Sun, 19.8.2012 | Kota Ezawa // Home Video 2, 2010 |
| Tue, 21.8.2012 | Michael Damm // Passenger Film: city is a bell (the eyestrikes), islands, opposite daylight, 2008 |
| Wed, 22.8.2012 | Nate Boyce // Untitled, 2011 |
| Thu, 23.8.2012 | Desiree Holman // Magic Window, 2009 |
Rio de Janeiro |
Curator: Tunga |
| Fri, 24.8.2012 | Tunga // Cooking, 2010 |
| Sat, 25.8.2012 | Louise Botkay Courcier // Mammah, 2006 |
| Sun, 26.8.2012 | Thiago Rocha Pitta // Homage to JMW Turner, 2002 |
| Tue, 28.8.2012 | Laura Erber // The funambulist and the diver, 2008 |
| Wed, 29.8.2012 | Marta Jourdan // Zona de Lancamento #5, 2011 |
Tokyo |
Curator: Takehito Koganezawa |
| Thu, 30.8.2012 | Takehito Koganezawa // Sea of Bills,2011 |
| Fri, 31.8.2012 | Tatsuo Majima // California, 1997 |
| Sat, 01.9.2012 | Yuki Okumura // Anatomy Fiction – Zenbei’s Eyeballs, 2007-2008 |
| Sun, 02.9.2012 | Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi// Dogsled, 2008 |
| Tue, 04.9.2012 | Meiro Koizumi // Portrait of a Young Samurai, 2009 |
Berlin |
Curator: Reynold Reynolds |
| Wed, 05.9.2012 | Reynold Reynolds // Six Easy Pieces, 2010 |
| Thu, 06.9.2012 | Marc Aschenbrenner // Rotweiss, 2011 |
| Fri, 07.9.2012 | Julian Rosefeldt // The Perfectionist, 2005 |
| Sat, 08.9.2012 | Rui Calçada Bastos // The mirror Suitecase Man, 2004 |
| Sun, 09.9.2012 | Bjørn Melhus // Murphy, 2008 |
Excerpt |
SUPER 8 / Part I + Part II |
| Tue,11.09.2012 | Grace Wein // Dust defying gravity, 2003 Dublin. Curators Walker & Walker |
| Wed,12.09.2012 | João Onofre // Untitled (N’en Finit Plus), 2011 Lisbon. Curator: Julião Sarmento |
| Thu,13.09.2012 | Rui Calçada Bastos // The mirror Suitecase Man, 2004 Berlin. Curator: Reynold Reynolds |
| Fri,14.09.2012 | Julie Orser // Bloodwork, 2009 Los Angeles. Curator: Marco Brambilla |
| Sat,15.09.2012 | Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi // Dogsled, 2008 Tokyo. Curator: Takehito Koganezawa |
| Sun,16.09.2012 | Wood & Harrison // Notebook, 2004 London. Curators: Wood & Harrison |