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Related event:
 Dia:Chelsea
Sadie Benning in conversation with Lynne Cooke
548 West 22nd Street
Friday, September 14, 2007, 7pm
$6 general admission; $3 Dia members, students, and seniors
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Sadie Benning: Play Pause, 2006
29:22 minutes, looping over the course of the day
A two-screen projected video installation made from hundreds of individual drawings, Sadie Benning’s latest project involving time-based media charts new ground. With footage that elides the static with the moving and a sound-track culled from hours of ambient recordings, Play Pause tracks a number of urban figures as they navigate their city in search of everyday play and pleasure. Play Pause’s narrative was devised in collaboration with Solveig Nelson.
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Born in 1973 in Madison, Wisconsin, Sadie Benning started making films at age fifteen with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera. An intensely personal exploration of the artist’s coming of age, as found in such early works as Jollies (1990), Me and Rubyfruit (1989), and If Every Girl Had a Diary (1990), brought her widespread acclaim. At the age of twenty, Benning was first included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial; she was included again in 2000. She is a former member and cofounder of the music group Le Tigre. More recent video works include The Judy Spots (1995), which aired on MTV, and Flat is Beautiful (1998). In 2004, The Wexner Center for the Arts presented a retrospective of all the artist’s videos to date; Play Pause had its debut there. Lately, Benning has expanded her video practice to include painting and drawing.
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This presentation is made possible by a generous grant from Art for Art’s Sake, New York.
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