EXHIBITION
GALLERY MAUS HÁBITOS HOSTS EXHIBITION CURATED BY CIAC RESEARCHER
On 24th March 2022, at 6 p.m., the exhibition Não há botão-retrocesso para a vida – O interminável trabalho em progresso de Mark Amerika, opens at Galeria Maus Hábitos (Porto), curated by CIAC researcher Ana Carvalho. On view until 8th May and with free admission, the exhibition shows the work of the artist Mark Amerika in several video formats, crossing different artistic genres and practices.
Não há botão-retrocesso para a vida – O interminável trabalho em progresso de Mark Amerika presents a combination of camera performance, recordings from Google Maps and Internet images with 3D animations. Interspersing video-pedagogy, video-essay, video-musical, video-NFT, video-glitch and video-poetry, the exhibition gives insight into Amerika’s post-production style, the artist’s life and the endless number of artworks produced.
Mark Amerika is a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, founding director of the Doctoral Program in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance in the College of Media, Communication and Information, and professor of Art and Art History. He has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Biennial of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Walker Art, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, among others. In 2009, Amerika released Immobilité, generally considered the first artistic feature film shot with a cell phone.
