I’M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU
ASU Art Museum Moving Target initiative
Premieres as a single channel video project space
Debuts as full exhibition at
Arizona State University Art Museum
August, 2009
 Mounira Al Solh The Sea Is A Stereo - Video number 2: Paris Without A Sea |
 Rachel Garfield You’re Joking! |
 Charlotte Ginsborg Stretching out flat on the mattress he feel asleep instantly |
 Pia Greschner Blue Hour 1-3 |
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 Myung-Soo Kim The Recruiting Center |
 Yaron Lapid Casual Mechanisms |
 Jeff Luckey The End of the Day (Schwedterstrasse) |
 Johnna MacArthur Seeker |
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 Michael Mohan The Interrogation |
 Corinna Schnitt Raus aus seinen Kleidern (out of your clothes) |
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I’M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU
On a daily basis, we observe and are observed by others. Based upon these observations we make judgments and adjustments in our lives. Occasionally we are watched but such observations go unnoticed; sometimes we know someone is watching and, once in a while, we just “have a feeling” that the walls have eyes. Consciously or subconsciously we choose to engage with a situation or, alternatively, to just observe from a distance.
How we as individuals respond to these encounters shape society at large. If we choose to engage in open, positive approaches, trust in others can lead to social groups and tight-knit communities. But in a contemporary world where “fear of the other” runs rampant, such interactions often evoke mistrust, profiling and paranoia. Personal mistrust often evolves into institutional mistrust and vice versa. Power structures are no longer clear-cut, diminishing the control and order we have over our own lives.
Through personal, established relationships, casual encounters, forced institutional interactions or contact from a safe distance, we often overstep our boundaries. Whether we are conscious or not of our boundary breaking, we are all guilty at one time or another of intruding into other people's lives and space. What may pass as uneventful for one individual may be the cause of great anxiety and fear for another. I’m Keeping an Eye on You explores the broad and lasting effects of our curiosity in and intrusions upon others.
Exhibition Artists
Artists featured in I’m Keeping an Eye on You include: Mounira Al Solh, Rachel Garfield, Charlotte Ginsborg, Pia Greschner, Myung-Soo Kim, Yaron Lapid, Jeff Luckey, Johnna MacArthur, Michael Mohan, Corinna Schnitt.
Support
This project is generously made possible by Aqua Art Miami and Friends of the Arizona State University Art Museum
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by John Spiak, ASU Art Museum Curator, I’m Keeping an Eye on You will premiere as a single channel video project space at Aqua Art Miami before debuting as a full exhibition installed in the Arizona State University Art Museum’s Nelson Fine Arts Center location.
Duration
Aqua Art Miami (December 2 – 7, 2008)
Preview: Tuesday, December 2, 5-8pm – open to public
December 3, 11am – 3pm
December 4-6, 11am – 7pm
December 7, 11am – 4pm
Arizona State University Art Museum (opens August, 2009)
Tuesday, 11am to 8pm
Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 5pm
Sunday from 1 to 5pm
closed Monday
ASU Art Museum Exhibitions
Selected past video exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum include:
Pipilotti Rist: Sip My Ocean and other videos
Bill Viola: Buried Secrets
Shirin Neshat: Rapture
Gary Hill: Language Willing
William Kentridge: Ubu Tells the Truth and Other Stories
Business As Usual: New Video from China/Cao Fei and Yang Fudong
Jim Campbell: Transforming Time, Electronic Works 1990-1999
Nadia Hironaka: The Late Show
Not Quite Myself Today: Video Works by Eight Artists
Adam Chodzko: Limbo Land and A Place for “The End”
Personal Doping: Video Installations by Agnieszka Kalinowska
PHACAEANS: Sloane McFarland
More information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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