Skip to main content

Jeremy Deller: An Interview

Video Data Bank

2019 00:54:38 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video
Tags:
Activism , Conceptual Art , Installation , Interview , Politics , VDB Interviews , Visiting Artists Program

Description

Turner Prize winning conceptual artist Jeremy Deller works across many different mediums, creating highly political and frequently collaborative works. Defying conventionality, Deller often exhibits outside of traditional gallery spaces, such as his 1993 twist on artist open studios, Open Bedroom, a secret exhibition in Deller’s family home while his parents were on holiday. In this interview, he sits down with Robyn Farrell, Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, to talk about his career and the wide variety of large-scale works he's made.

The Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The VDB collection features innovative video work made by artists from an aesthetic, political or personal point of view. The collection includes seminal works that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form originating in the late 1960's and continuing to the present. Works in the collection employ innovative uses of form and technology, mixed with original visual style to address contemporary art and cultural themes.

Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement in the United States, the Video Data Bank is one of the nation's largest providers of alternative and art-based video. Through a successful national and international distribution service, the VDB distributes video art, documentaries made by artists, and recorded interviews with visual artists, photographers and critics.