Featuring work by artists including Nan Goldin, Derek Jarman and Andy Warhol, Paradigm Shift: A New Dimension of Moving Image at 180 Studios explores the evolution of moving image
Ray-Ban Meta180 Studios presents Paradigm Shift: A New Dimension of Moving Image, a major exhibition that traces the evolution of moving image through the perspective of style, identity and technology, opening October 14 during Frieze week. Curated by Jefferson Hack and Mark Wadhwa in partnership with Ray-Ban Meta, the show features artworks from Sofia Al-Maria, Meriem Bennani, Dara Birnbaum, Foday Dumbuya, Cao Fei, Nan Goldin, Tremaine Emory, Arthur Jafa, Derek Jarman, JulianKnxx, Mark Leckey, Josèfa Ntjam, Pipilotti Rist, Martine Syms, Ryan Trecartin, Telfar, Gillian Wearing and Andy Warhol.
“From the Super 8 and VHS revolutions of the 1970s and 80’s to the digital hyper connectivity of our present moment, video art and moving image has always operated at a crossroads: high and low, visceral and conceptual, personal and political,” says Hack. ”In Paradigm Shift, we see how great artists inspire us to engage with storytelling through screens differently: for us to feel more, imagine more and recover our senses.”
Starting in the past and moving through to the future, Paradigm Shift traces multiple revolutions within moving image culture. Media is reworked from public access TV to VHS loops, on-the-fly phone content, and AI glasses with Ray-Ban Meta. Many of the works on show have non-traditional art origin stories: Jarman held screenings of the Super 8 Shorts in the studio with his community; Warhol’s Fashion was released on public access TV; Bennani released 2 Lizards over Instagram during the Covid-19 pandemic, and Fei was commissioned and hosted on online video platform Nowness.
180 Studios has also commissioned new works by artists, including Emory and Dumbuya. Their work is juxtaposed with pieces from history, inviting inquiry into the shaping and performance of identity amid contemporary culture, where the screen has become a stage on which everyone can broadcast, comment, perform and exhibit their art.
Technology is central to the story: it shapes how the films are created, and therefore their visual language, exploring our ongoing relationship to the screen as a site of self-production. Paradigm Shift is an all-encompassing sensory retelling of this evolution, one that explores technology as a medium for self-expression.
Hence, the fitting collaboration with Ray-Ban Meta, a household name at the forefront of the times. Blending iconic style with advanced technology, Ray-Ban Meta glasses – the number one bestselling AI glasses – offer hands-free video, messaging, calling and built-in Meta AI, including live translation and advanced AI technologies that help you learn about the world around you (if you’re interested, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses (Gen 2) are now available for purchase).
Transforming 180 Strand’s vast underground space into an immersive experience of sound, screen and movement, audiences will see how artists use moving image to stage and style identity with works ranging from the 70s to the present day, drawing from cinema, TV, music video, performance, gaming and internet culture.
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Paradigm Shift: A New Dimension of Moving Image in partnership with Ray-Ban Meta goes on show at 180 Studios in London on October 14.
