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Weekly Initiative News- 03/31/14

Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Anamorphic 35mm film, color and black and white, optical sound. 26 1/2 min. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London

Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Anamorphic 35mm film, color and black and white, optical sound. 26 1/2 min. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London.

Interesting article on East of Borneo addressing Tacita Dean’s  most recent work JG.  Recently exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the  26-1/2 minute, 35mm film named after the iconic science fiction writer J.G. Ballard, takes as its subject Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970):

http://www.eastofborneo.org/articles/et-in-utah-erant-the-reel-works-of-jg-ballard-tacita-dean-and-robert-smithson