Join Senior Curator Laura Burkhalter for an interactive gallery talk that examines the role of time-based media in contemporary art and in the Des Moines Art Center’s permanent collections. Time-based media refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension, such as video or sound art. Guests will discuss how to best experience this type of art in a gallery setting and walk through the works juxtaposed in the exhibition “Time Travelers”—including Mika Rottenberg’s “Cheese” (2008) and Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s “The Boat People” (2020).
Free; Registration required
Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Vietnamese, born 1976)
The Boat People, 2020
Single-channel video, 4k, Super 16mm transferred to digital, color, 5.1 surround sound
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey Moving-Image and Time-Based Art Fund and the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., 2023.32
Image courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York
