Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center

Scopophilia: Pleasure in Looking
VIDEO INSTALLATION FESTIVAL
Sponsored by Lightborne Communications, Inc.
November 11, 2000 - March 25, 2001

In 1975, the Contemporary Arts Center represented the United States at the São Paulo Bienal in Brazil with an exhibition of video art that set the stage for this new genre to be seen as a legitimate form of contemporary expression. Since then, the CAC has regularly exhibited installations that employ video, film and multi-media. With Scopophilia, the CAC is the first museum to mount a festival of ambitious installations of projected video that require a complete renovation of the Center's main gallery every month.

Scopophilia is divided into five exhibition periods:

Gillian Wearing: Drunk
November 11 - December 3, 2000

Jeremy Blake: Bungalow 8
December 6 - 31, 2000

Janet Biggs: Flight
January 3 - 28, 2001

Pipilotti Rist: I Couldn't Agree With You More
January 31 - February 25, 2001

Sam Taylor-Wood: Travesty of a Mockery
January 31 - February 25, 2001

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno: About
February 28 - March 25,

Scopophilia: Pleasure in Looking is organized by the CAC.

Janet Biggs: Flight
January 3 - 28, 2001

To soar in the heavens has always been an aspiration of humankind. New York artist Janet Biggs captivates audiences with the sensation of flight generated by eerie images of synchronized swimmers, a sleeping horse and John Glenn's space walk. The music of techno musician Moby envelops the visuals.

Contrasting the giant image of a sleeping, twitching horse are three projections of synchronized swimmers filmed under water - but displayed upside-down, creating an uncanny visual effect that rivals those in blockbuster Hollywood films.

Biggs has been exhibiting since 1987. Her work has been shown at the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, the Nexus Contemporary Art Center in Georgia as well as many galleries across the United States. Her work was also included in Presumed Innocence, an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in 1998.