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Property of a European Collector DOUGLAS GORDON (b. 1966) PREDICTABLE INCIDENT IN UNFAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS (NOS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) PARTY-PACK EDITION printed with title and date "Douglas Gordon Predictable Incident in Unfamiliar Surroundings Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 1995" on a label adhered to the cassette video installation with video projector, player, VHS cassette tape and beer dimensions variable duration variable executed in 1995 this work is from an edition of five ESTIMATE: - $40,000-60,000 PROVENANCE Patrick Painter Editions, HONG KONG EXHIBITED LEIPZIG, Fabrikhallen der ehemaligen VEB Buntgarnwerke and Kunsthalle Elsterpark, MEDIENBIENNALE LEIPZIG, MINIMA MEDIA, October 22-November 1, 1994 (another example exhibited) PARIS, Galerie Anton Weller, CHEZ L'UN, CHEZ L'AUTRE, 1995 HAMBURG, Hamburger Kunsthalle, VIDEO CLUB '99, February 20, 1999 (another example exhibited) LITERATURE M. Bloemheuvel, ed., DOUGLAS GORDON: KIDNAPPING, EINdHOVEN, 1998, pp. 134-135 (illustrated) Douglas Gordon's eclectic oeuvre includes photography, text works, tattoos and his celebrated video works that date from the early '90s, in which he manipulates our experience of well-known Hollywood films with devices such as mirroring, reversals and temporal extensions. The latter is most famously illustrated by 24 Hour Psycho, 1993, wherein the Hitchcock classic is slowed down so that a single continuous viewing lasts 24 hours. Gordon explains the effect: "The viewer is catapulted back into the past by his recollection of the original, and at the same time he is drawn into the future by his expectations of an already familiar narrative.... A slowly changing present forces itself in between." (DOUGLAS GORDON, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg pamphlet, n.d.) Within the temporal distortions of these slow-motion narratives, Gordon addresses myriad psychological issues relating to memory, consciousness and our sense of self, which are recurring themes in all of his work. For Gordon's 1994 video, Predictable Incident in Unfamiliar Surroundings, five separate clips from the popular late-'60s television series Star Trek were re-filmed in slow-motion and set into a continuous silent loop without beginning or end. The clips portray encounters between Captain Kirk-a character whose ferocious libido is popular culture legend-and various otherworldly female companions. As the video progresses, the role of sexual aggressor changes hands: in one clip Kirk violently attacks his companion, in the next there is consensual romance, and by the fifth, Kirk reclines in a semiconscious state while a woman performs a highly sexualized ritual over his body. The video's cyclical format subverts attempts to draw conclusions from this sequence; as Gordon explains, "I like to construct self-destructive systems... [that] can only lead towards a multiplicity of meanings...." (Interview with Jan Debbaut, KIDNAPPING, Eindhoven, 1998, p. 23.) However, the title indicates that Gordon believes the action in the clips is familiar and deeply human-despite the campy surrounds-and, by extension, he suggests that we find ourselves reflected in all of Kirk's various roles-as hero, aggressor, victim and villain. For the "Party-Pack" editions of this work, the video projector sits atop a mountain of cases of beer, which is an allusion to Star Trek's low-brow appeal but also, perhaps, to alcohol's notorious ability to strip us of our inhibitions and uncover the darker corners of our psyches.
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Viewing in Chelsea Saturday May 4, 2002 - Sun
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