Our experience of the urban environment today
is always, already filmic. Since the turn of the twentieth century,
cinema and the city have evolved in tandem, spanning perceptual,
social and cultural shifts. Accumulating images of the city in
film overlap with the lived urban environment to create an experience
of temporal and spatial plurality. While the perceptual impact
of the moving image has altered the way we apprehend and navigate
these spaces, the intertwining of film and city has played a
part in increasingly hybridized social and cultural contexts,
from generic environments to the global communities in which
we locate our sense of self. As film transforms the places and
moments we inhabit into multiple, simultaneous zones of overlapping
memories, real and fictional events, the territories we move
through become as much psychological as physical.
In Sodium Dreams,
twelve artists explore the disparate but interconnecting ways
in which our urban lives, and our understanding of cities,
are mediated by the culture of the moving image.
Here, you can
choose to begin your route through the show with individual
artists, by exploring
the exhibition checklist,
or by
following any of the highlighted themes below:
R e a l F i c t i o n s
P e r c e p t u a l F i e l d s
U r b a n S u b j e ct
This exhibition is supported by the LEF Foundation,
the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the British
Council.
Acknowledgments
The CCS and the curator would like to extend their sincere
thanks to the artists, and to the following individuals
and organizations
who provided crucial support:
Rhea Anastas; Stephanie Daniel; Entwistle Gallery,
London; Film and Video Umbrella, London; Arthur Fleischer,
Jr.;
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; Frith Street Gallery,
London; Galerie
Cent8, Paris; Gasser Grünert, Inc., New York;
Carol and Arthur Goldberg; GreeneNaftali, Inc., New
York; Marian Goodman
Gallery, Paris and New York; Marieluise Hessel; Maureen
Paley Interim Art, London; Kelly Lindner; Michele Maccarone,
Inc.;
The Modern Institute, Glasgow; David Oatway; Ed Arnold
at Prestige Mills; The Public Art Fund, New York; Soho
Imaging, London; Jerry
I. Speyer; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Antoine
Vigne; Jill Winder; Delphine Zampetti. At Bard: Leon
Botstein, President,
Bard College; Dimitri Papadimitriou, Executive Vice-President,
Bard College; Juliet Meyers, Web Services Coordinator;
Ginger Shore, Director, Publications and Public Relations;
Emily Darrow,
Press Officer, Public Relations; Ann Gabler, Program
Development Associate; Barbara Maple, Research Associate.
At CCS: Norton
Batkin, Director, CCS; Amada Cruz, Director, CCS Museum;
Marcia Acita, Assistant Director, CCS Museum; Michael
Pilon, Preparator;
Colleen Egan, Assistant Registrar; Susan Leonard, Librarian;
Carol Anderson, Administrative Assistant; Security:
Paul Giannuzzi, Bob Stier; Installation crew: Peter
Acheson, Chris Dunlop, Brian
Sharp.
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