List Projects: Ken Okiishi
On View: July 16-September 1, 2013
Bakalar Gallery
Ken Okiishi uses video as a means to explore circuits of communication, memory, and agency in and between networked cities through moments when language falls apart, meaning is dislocated, and analogies are incomplete or false. List Projects: Ken Okiishi features three of the artist's most recent works. Filmed in New York and Berlin, Okiishi's (Goodbye to) Manhattan (2010, 73 min.) consists of re-imagined scenes from Woody Allen's iconic movie, using as the script the Google translation of the original film's official German translation. parapluies/paraplyer/'nobody can tell the why of it'/1857/oslo/2011 (2011, 9 min.) overlays musicians-including members of existing Norwegian metal, klezmer-inspired, and indie bands, and a boy soprano-interpreting a song from Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The Deleted Scene (2012, 28 min.) takes as its starting point the opening scene of the Hollywood musical Gold Diggers of 1933 and AP News, a self-organized, artists' run cinema space in Zurich.
As an ongoing program of exhibitions and presentations, List Projects supports the work of younger artists at pivotal points in their career, as well as those artists otherwise lacking an institutional voice. This new exhibition initiative augments the List Center's exhibition program, allowing both the institution to continue its support of emerging and underrepresented artists, and its galleries to remain on view throughout the year.
List Projects: Ken Okiishi is curated by List Center Assistant Curator Alise Upitis.
Upcoming Programs:
Saturday, July 20, 2PMExhibition and Public Art tour with Assistant Curator Alise UpitisSaturday, August 10, 12-4PMFamily Day 
Image Credit:
Ken Okiishi, parapluies/paraplyer/'nobody can tell the shy of it'/
1857/oslo/2011, 2011, video, 9 min.
Courtesy of the artist and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, NY
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