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High Definition Video with Sound
Duration: 54min, (english with german and spanish subtitles)
Single Channel Projection
Aspect Ratio 16:9 NTSC, Stereo
Installation dimensions variable
Synopsis:
'Grand Paris Texas' interweaves the physical and social space of dead cinema, a forgotten song and the inhabitants of a small town. The Grand, a long abandoned movie theater in downtown Paris, serves as the main protagonist in a narrative that explores Paris as a meta-location constructed through celluloid and soundtrack, made famous by Wim Wenders's 1984 film that used the town's name, but was not shot in Paris, Texas.
The video follows four narrative threads: a film crew while they film the bird-infested interior of the Grand theater, interviews with Paris, Texas residents who reflect on cinema, the local resonance of Wenders's film and a partially-erased video tape of his film discovered at the local video store.
http://www.hubbardbirchler.net/works/grandparistexas/
About the Artists:
TERESA HUBBARD (American / Swiss, born in Dublin, Ireland 1965) and ALEXANDER BIRCHLER (Swiss, born in Baden, Switzerland 1962) have been working collaboratively in video, photography and sculpture since 1990. Hubbard is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Both Hubbard and Birchler are Graduate Faculty members at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York.
Recent Hubbard / Birchler Solo exhibitions include the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth; Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, K21 Dusseldorf; Goetz Collection Museum Munich; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; Miami Art Museum; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel; ArtPace, San Antonio; Museum Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld; Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam and the Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum.
www.arthousetexas.org
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