Jean-Michel Rolland Rhythmed by the race of five horses shot in Marseille Borély, this video, a tribute to Muybridge, doesn’t try to take the public into the universe of racetracks; instead, it communicates the frenzy felt during the breakneck speed…
Category: ATHLETICISM
The Game Embodied
Cheryl Pope All images courtesy the Artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photo by James Prinz Photography. A SILENT I, 2010, Installation view of series of nylon banners installed in Lindblom Math and Science Career Academy, text on banners written by…
Nuances of Gesture
Amelia Johannes All works by Amelia Johannes, 2015, Digital collage. Images courtesy of the artist. Original material courtesy of Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria and Herald & Weekly Times Limited portrait collection. “…[R]ituals are composed of…
Football Cloud Practice
Henry Gwiazda The football players, moving clouds, passing cars, plane and associated sounds come together to form an intricate multimedia choreography. Through this fusion, I am attempting to create a new kind of sensitivity or perception that encourages the viewer to…
Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose
Robert Ladislas Derr Robert Ladislas Derr, Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose, 2013. Digital video, 1’19”. Courtesy the artist. I record the act of rolling a stone up a hill, from two vantage points, two times, both achieving and failing…
Level Playing Field
David Cross Level Playing Field, 2013, performance, inflatable structure. All images by and courtesy the artist. Level Playing Field is both an inflatable sport and temporary public artwork commissioned for Scape 7 Public Art, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2013. The…
Considered Compulsion Vaasa
John G. Boehme Still and video from Considered Compulsion Vaasa, 2013, 2-hour performance. Images courtesy Marcus Lerviks. Considered Compulsion Vaasa is part of a larger body of artworks that explore sport as a metaphor for construction, projection, and…
Endgame Strategy (For Vince Lombardi)
Brandon Bauer Brandon Bauer, Endgame Strategy (For Vince Lombardi), 2011/2014, Color, sound, 10’21”. Courtesy the artist. The video Endgame Strategy (For Vince Lombardi) attempts to aesthetically and conceptually tie the endgame modernist strategies of the late 1960s to the competitive…