ZKM | Karlsruhe | John Sanborn. Between Order and Entropy | Works 1978–2022 @zkmkarlsruhe | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
The exhibition »Between Order and Entropy« (Sat, 09.07.2022 – Sun, 30.10.2022 at ZKM) presents the work of the American artist John Sanborn, who became one of the most prominent protagonists of the American video art scene in the 1970s and 1980s.

Sanborn's work ranges from the beginnings of experimental video art to MTV music videos, interactive art, and digital media art. Consulting with Apple and Adobe, he contributed to shaping the possibilities of new image tools and was instrumental to the dawning of the digital image revolution in California. Sanborn's recent work consists of complex media installations that address issues of cultural identity, memory, mythologies, and the human compulsion to tell stories.

This exhibition, which is the largest in Europe devoted to the work of the artist, who worked closely with the founder of video art Nam June Paik and the composer Robert Ashley, brings together a collection of works that spans over four decades of sound, music, interactive media and video exploration. After working in Hollywood and Silicon Valley for several years, Sanborn has produced a variety of new media installations since 2015, elevating issues of identity and inclusivity. For the exhibition, which will take place inside the museum galleries and on the museum balcony at the ZKM, several works were commissioned, including »a dog dreams (of god)«, and a Virtual Reality iteration of a recent work, »The Friend«, featuring the actor and director John Cameron Mitchell.

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:16:14 - Ear to the Ground, 1982
Part of the series Antarctica, John Sanborn and Kit Fitzgerald

00:06:12
Resound (remix), 1981/2016/2022
John Sanborn, Kit Fitzgerald

00:08:44
Perfect Lives, (Private Parts), 1983
An opera for television, John Sanborn, Robert Ashley

00:15:41
Spectator, 1980/2022
John Sanborn, Kit Fitzgerald

00:18:55
Act lll, 1983
John Sanborn, Dean Winkler

00:27:24
NONSELF, 2019
John Sanborn

00:29:09
V+M, 2016
John Sanborn

00:34:22
Apollo, 2015
Part of the series Mythic Status, John Sanborn

00:36:07
Hercules, 2016
Part of the series Mythic Status, John Sanborn

00:36:50
Alterszorn, 2017
John Sanborn

00:40:29
365 degrees, 2004
John Sanborn

00:44:19
A Pre-Existing Condition, 2019
Part of the series Quartets, John Sanborn

00:48:51
Give me a Second, 2018
John Sanborn

00:50:55
Evanescene, 2019
Part of the series Quartets, John Sanborn

00:53:26
Here | Her | There, 2020
Part of the series Quartets, John Sanborn

00:56:42
And in Conclusion, 2021
John Sanborn

01:01:17
a dog dreams (of god), 2022
John Sanborn

01:04:39
The Friend, 2021
John Sanborn

01:12:33
The Friend VR, 2022
John Sanborn

01:15:00
Credits
Production

© ZKM | Videostudio, 2022
Audric Dette (Camera)
Andy Koch (Camera, Sound Recording)
Christina Zartmann (Camera, Editing)

Exhibition
Stephen Sarrazin (Curator),
Philipp Ziegler (Curator)

Hanna Jurisch (Curatorial Assistance),
Felix Pausch (Technical Projekt Management)

Organization / Institution
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe


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