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Luke Fowler at the serpentine gallery london,why show youtube on big screen?

From:     andon
Category: Art
Date:     04 June 2009
Time:     08:03 AM

Review:

I cant see the reason to show this work at the serpentine, mildly interesting documentaries about past 
progressives, but why the hell show them to a couple of folks sitting in a big darkened room. If video 
art is just tv documentary surely it is more appropriate to put it on youtube or on tv? WHAT is the 
compelling curatorial or artistic reason to project it up huge in a space which is neither good for 
showing films or where you usually have time or inclination to sit for 15 mins. Why use art object 
galleries for video which have no need to be presented as visual phenomonena? If film then show 
them in cinemas, if sketchy then on the net.


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