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Amy Patton
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A Satisfied Mind(2005), video still
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Pierogi Leipzig: In August, Pierogi is Navigating in Uncertain Territories
Video room: Amy Patton, A Satisfied Mind
Opening: Saturday, July 29, 2006, 6 PM
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 – 6 PM, and by appointment
Dates: July 29 through September 2nd
Amy Patton’s video work A Satisfied Mind leads us on a journey into an obscure narrative landscape. It is the product of work with three small excerpts of unrelated 16mm films found tangled together in a garbage bag in Austin, Texas. The three films, one showing early aviation disasters (c.1929), one discussing amnesia among psychosurgery and electro-shock therapy patients (ca. 1969), and one showing two children who
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take a ride on a greyhound bus (ca. 1966), were “hijacked”, so to speak, into a narrative framework of the artist’s design.
The narrative, which is related to the viewer by the voice of a sleeping psychosurgery patient, is the story of a Greyhound bus employee with a hyperactive memory for details, which allegedly drives him to a suicide. The exact circumstances are unknown.
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The character was inspired by a character in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges called Funes, the Memorious. In the story, Funes famously says “My memory, sir, is a dustbin,” a metaphor that is particularly suitable because, as mentioned, all of the films were found in a dustbin. This is the Berlin-based artist’s first exhibition in Leipzig.
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For the complete exhibition text, or if you have any questions, please contact:
Für Fragen und weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an:
Jason Starkie or Christina Linden
info@pierogileipzig.com
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