Still from "Leviathan" by Iby Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, showing at Urban Video Project Sept. 17 - Nov. 29, 2015.
Castaing-Taylor will appear in-person at the Everson Museum of Art on Oct. 15 to screen "Leviathan" indoors as part of the Syracuse International Film Festival. The screening is free and open to the public.
Castaing-Taylor and Paravel's "Leviathan" will open "We Were Never Human", a year long exhibition and event program at UVP and several partner organizations focused on the way contemporary artists are exploring the shifting idea of what it means to be human.
Urban Video Project (UVP) is an important international venue for the public exhibition of video art and a multimedia public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University operating on the Connective Corridor cultural strip in Syracuse, N.Y.
UVP Everson, a partnership with the Everson Museum of Art, is UVP’s flagship site. UVP Everson is located on the north façade of the Everson Museum of Art building at 401 Harrison St. in downtown Syracuse, and transforms the plaza every Thursday-Saturday from dusk to 11 p.m., year-round into a public art installation utilizing a permanently installed extra-large venue projector and stereo sound system.
More information at www.urbanvideoproject.com
Still from "Leviathan" by Iby Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, showing at Urban Video Project Sept. 17 - Nov. 29, 2015.
Castaing-Taylor will appear in-person at the Everson Museum of Art on Oct. 15 to screen "Leviathan" indoors as part of the Syracuse International Film Festival. The screening is free and open to the public.
Castaing-Taylor and Paravel's "Leviathan" will open "We Were Never Human", a year long exhibition and event program at UVP and several partner organizations focused on the way contemporary artists are exploring the shifting idea of what it means to be human.
Urban Video Project (UVP) is an important international venue for the public exhibition of video art and a multimedia public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University operating on the Connective Corridor cultural strip in Syracuse, N.Y.
UVP Everson, a partnership with the Everson Museum of Art, is UVP’s flagship site. UVP Everson is located on the north façade of the Everson Museum of Art building at 401 Harrison St. in downtown Syracuse, and transforms the plaza every Thursday-Saturday from dusk to 11 p.m., year-round into a public art installation utilizing a permanently installed extra-large venue projector and stereo sound system.
More information at www.urbanvideoproject.com
Still from "Leviathan" by Iby Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, showing at Urban Video Project Sept. 17 - Nov. 29, 2015.
Castaing-Taylor will appear in-person at the Everson Museum of Art on Oct. 15 to screen "Leviathan" indoors as part of the Syracuse International Film Festival. The screening is free and open to the public.
Castaing-Taylor and Paravel's "Leviathan" will open "We Were Never Human", a year long exhibition and event program at UVP and several partner organizations focused on the way contemporary artists are exploring the shifting idea of what it means to be human.
Urban Video Project (UVP) is an important international venue for the public exhibition of video art and a multimedia public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University operating on the Connective Corridor cultural strip in Syracuse, N.Y.
UVP Everson, a partnership with the Everson Museum of Art, is UVP’s flagship site. UVP Everson is located on the north façade of the Everson Museum of Art building at 401 Harrison St. in downtown Syracuse, and transforms the plaza every Thursday-Saturday from dusk to 11 p.m., year-round into a public art installation utilizing a permanently installed extra-large venue projector and stereo sound system.
More information at www.urbanvideoproject.com
Still from "Leviathan" by Iby Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, showing at Urban Video Project Sept. 17 - Nov. 29, 2015.
Castaing-Taylor and Paravel's "Leviathan" will open "We Were Never Human", a year long exhibition and event program at UVP and several partner organizations focused on the way contemporary artists are exploring the shifting idea of what it means to be human.
Urban Video Project (UVP) is an important international venue for the public exhibition of video art and a multimedia public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University operating on the Connective Corridor cultural strip in Syracuse, N.Y.
UVP Everson, a partnership with the Everson Museum of Art, is UVP’s flagship site. UVP Everson is located on the north façade of the Everson Museum of Art building at 401 Harrison St. in downtown Syracuse, and transforms the plaza every Thursday-Saturday from dusk to 11 p.m., year-round into a public art installation utilizing a permanently installed extra-large venue projector and stereo sound system.
More information at www.urbanvideoproject.com
Urban Video Project (UVP) and parent organization, Light Work, are pleased to announce the exhibition of “Leviathan” by filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Vérena Paravel of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab from September 17 – October 24, 2015.
This exhibition will be the first installment of“We Were Never Human”, a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations exploring the shifting idea of what it means to be human.
In conjunction with the exhibition of “Leviathan” at UVP, the related piece, “He Maketh a Path to Shine after Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary” will be installed in the Everson Museum’s Cloud-Wampler Gallery from September 19 – November 29, 2015.
Castaing-Taylor will discuss his practice and take questions from the audience at a special free screening of “Leviathan” in the Everson’s Hosmer Auditorium on Thursday, October 15 at 6:30pm.
This event will be free & open to the public. Reception follows.
“Leviathan” (2012) is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry.
Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts – at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Melville’s inspiration for “Moby Dick”; it is today the country’s largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbor every month.
“Leviathan” follows one such vessel, a hulking groundfish trawler, into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor or partaking in the longstanding tradition of turning fisherfolk into images, filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel present a vivid, almost-kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine.
Employing an arsenal of cameras that passed freely from film crew to ship crew; that swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird’s-eye views, the film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors.
About the Artists
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel are filmmakers, artists, and anthropologists, who work at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), and the British Museum, and has been screened at the AFI, BAFICI, Berlin, CPH:DOX, Locarno, NewYork, Toronto, and Viennale film festivals, and exhibited at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Centre Pompidou, the Berlin Kunsthalle, Marian Goodman Gallery, the X-Initiative, and elsewhere. Paravel’s previous films include “Foreign Parts” (2010, with J.P. Sniadecki) “Interface” series (2009-10) and “7 Queens” (2008); and Castaing-Taylor’s “Hell Roaring Creek” (2010), “The High Trail” (2010), “Sweetgrass” (2009, with Ilisa Barbash), “In and Out of Africa” (2001, with Barbash), and “Made In USA” (1990, with Barbash).
Sponsors & Partners
All UVP exhibitions are held in partnership with the Everson Museum of Art, Onondaga County, and the Connective Corridor and are made possible through the generous support of Syracuse University and New York State Council on the Arts.
The free screening of “Leviathan” with Lucien Castaing-Taylor in person at the Everson is part of the official program of the 2015 Syracuse International Film Festival.
For more information and a complete festival program, go to: filminsyracuse.com
Urban Video Project (UVP) is a multimedia public art initiative of Light Work, the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse University, Spectrum, and Onondaga County.
