MAY 23 – JULY 19, 2009




As music and sound from the internal reality of a moving image help to ground the viewer, silent film and video works create a space unmoored from time and temporal experience. Whether by direct aesthetic choice or technological necessity, the removal of sound pushes the viewer towards an almost hypnotic focus. No Sound features a selection of moving image works projected and installed on monitors throughout the Upper Gallery of the museum. The exhibition includes a number of films and videos that explore stillness, action, and our relationship to the natural and unnatural elements of the world around us.

No Sound includes silent moving-image work by three generations of artists, working in both Europe and the United States, in an eclectic mix of avant-garde film, rarely exhibited early video works, and recent film and video.

Featuring work by Doug Aitken, Bas Jan Ader, Marcel Broodthaers, Guy Ben-Ner,
Trisha Donnelly, Nancy Graves, Henrik HÃ¥kansson, David Noonan, Paul Pfeiffer,
and Diana Thater

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 6:00 p.m.
Visiting guest John Hanhardt, Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will join AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson for a conversation about the exhibition.

No Sound is organized by the Aspen Art Museum and funded in part by the AAM National Council. Exhibition lectures are part of the Questrom Lecture Series.

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