Alex Bag (born 1969, USA)
Untitled Fall 95, 1995
57 min, color, sound
Courtesy of Team Gallery and Electronic Arts
Intermix (EAI), New York
Alex Bag
Running from February 21 – May 15, 2016 at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is a survey of contemporary art from the 1990s. This is actually the first major museum exhibit to historicize this transitional decade. Over 50 artists are represented, spanning the gamut from installation, video art, painting, photography, sculpture and early internet art. This is truly a showcase not to miss.
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Sept. 11, the artists capture a time of enormous socio-economic, political and cultural change. Among the appearing artists are: Alex Bag, Glenn Ligon, Doug Aitken, Shirin Neshat, Gabriel Orozco, Donald Moffett, Shahzia Sikander, Catherine Opie, Felix Gonzalez-Torres,and Kara Walker.
The 90’s were time of radical identity politics, steeped in the AIDS crisis, events like the Rodney King riots, and the rise of the Internet. It was a time of “culture wars” which impacted creative freedom as well as a time when global expansionism and digital technology forever altered both production and the art market.
Additionally the Blanton will be screening:
Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle
Tuesday, March 15–Saturday, March 19 | 12 noon
as well as the following films:
Come as You Are: Films of the 1990s
Sundays, April 3 – May 1 | 1 p.m.
April 3: Party Girl (1995) starring Parker Posey, capturing the 90’s NY party scene.
April 10: Safe (1995) starring Julianne Moore, a comment on suburbia.
April 17: How to Survive a Plague (2012) + “Untitled” (Felix Gonzalez-Torres) A documentary on Act-Up and AIDS.
April 24: Hackers (1995) A film about teenage hackers starring a young Angelina Jolie.
May 1: The Glass Shield (1994) A film starring Ice Cube and Lori Petty about race and the LA Police.
And lastly, what would the early 90’s have been without mix-tapes? (Yes, for those of us geezers we were making mixed tapes back in the 80’s and earlier…but this is a fun interactive piece). The Blanton will be checking out walkman cassette players with 90’s mixed tapes! Plus, if you submit your own 90’s playlists you can earn free admission:
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