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Aïda Ruilova's new video, Untitled, will be featured in its East coast premiere after an initial showing in the master's degree exhibition The Lengths, curated by Center graduate student Kelly Taxter, on view at the Museum from April 13 to 27. Ruilova created Untitled during her residency at ArtPace in Texas and this is a recent acquisition by the Marieluise Hessel Collection on permanent loan to the Center for Curatorial Studies. Ruilova creates short videos that exploit cinematic collage and editing that exploit cinematic collage and editing techniques to evoke psychological tensions. Focusing on the relationships among sound, image, and duration, she interlaces her strong interest in music with a gothic aesthetic inspired, in part, by camp and B-movie horror and vampire flicks of the 1970s. Ruilova studied at the University of South Florida and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has recently been shown at the Impakt film festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands; the New Museum and P.S. 1 in New York City; and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. She is also a member of the alternative music group Alva, which has released two CDs. On June 29, the day
of the exhibition opening, limited free seating on a chartered bus is
available. The bus will leave from SoHo in the morning, returning from
the Center for Curatorial Studies in the late afternoon. Reservations
must be made in advance by calling the Center at The museum is open to the public, without charge, Wednesdays through Sundays from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. An opening reception will take place on Sunday, June 29, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. For further information, call the CCS at 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu. |
