John Pilson, artist and art
Born 1968, Birth New York, USA.
The artist lives and works in New York City.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Video, Photography,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
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Coliseum consists of four video works that explore the shifting relationships between work and play, talk and
action, the daily and the dramatic. The rhythms of language are constants in each piece: heated discussions of
arcane knowledge, theatrical monologues, the physical dialogue between a group of athletes. While previous
work has been concerned with the theatricality of space, these new works employ video in a prismatic explora-
tion of group portraiture…
"The digital model of photography has been driven by the same desires and obsessions that have continually drawn artists to cameras and darkrooms. In photography, every invention provokes a response from artists. From the dryplate negative to the first handheld cameras, new technology has been a dare to produce something which transcends it’s own novelty."
dark empire
The London Cast
