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This year-long project in three consecutive parts was devoted
to the work of the Irish artist James Coleman. This was the first
major museum presentation in the U.S. of Coleman's work. Born
in Dublin in 1941, Coleman has been making multimedia works
for over twenty years. Although he has used film and video as
well as live-theater production, the medium which Coleman has
made particularly his own is the unusual one of "slide-tape"
multiple slide projection with synchronized audio tape. Coleman
created a new work for Dia titled I N I T I A L S, which
was shown throughout the duration of the exhibition; in addition,
six other works ranging from 1972-92 were on view in three
different installations of approximately 3 months each, providing
a sense of the breadth of his work in this medium. Though widely
shown in the most important contemporary art museums in Europe,
the range of Coleman's work has never been made available to American
audiences. This exhibition toured to the Kunstmuseum Lucerne,
April 9-June 18, 1995.
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| Checklist of Works |
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A three-part series: April 14, 1994-March 12, 1995
Part I: April 14-June 19, 1994
1. Charon (MIT Project), 1989
projected images with synchronized audio narration; 21 minutes
2. Slide Piece, 1972-73
repeated single-slide projection with synchronized audio narration;
continuous projection
3. I N I T I A L S, 1994
projected images with synchronized audio narration; 18 minutes
Part II: September 14-December 23, 1994
1. I N I T I A L S, 1994
projected images with synchronized audio narration; 18 minutes
2. La Tache Aveugle, 1979-90
projected black-and-white images; continuous projection
3. Seeing for Oneself, 1987-88
projected black-and-white images with synchronized audio narration;
45 minutes
Part III: December 29-March 12, 1995
1. Background, 1992
projected images with synchronized audio narration; 18 minutes
2. Lapsus Exposure, 1993
projected images with synchronized audio narration; 18 minutes
3. I N I T I A L S, 1994
projected images with synchronized audio narration; 18 minutes
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Fisher, Jean. "Inexorable Dissolve: James Coleman Blindsides
Art." Artforum 32, no. 4 (December 1993), 48-50, 97.
Gibbons, Luke. "Narratives Of No Return: James Coleman's
guaiRE." Artforum 32, no. 4 (December 1993), 50-51, 101.
James Coleman. Lyon: Musée d'Art Contemporain, 1991. Text
by Lynne Cooke.
James Coleman. Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1990. Texts
by Jan Debbaut and Frank Lubbers.
James Coleman. Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1989. Text by Fréderic Migayrou.
James Coleman. Dublin: Trinity College, The Douglas Hyde Gallery
and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast, 1982.
Text by Jean Fisher.
James Coleman: Selected Works. Chicago: Renaissance Society and
Institute for Contemporary Art, London, 1985. Texts by Anne Rorimer
and Michael Newman.
Michael Asher/James Coleman. New York: Artists Space, 1988. Texts
by Jean Fisher, Anne Rorimer, and John Vinci.
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| Funding |
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Major funding for this project was provided by the Juliet Lea
Hillman Simonds Foundation, Inc. Additional support was received
from the Dia Art Council, the major annual support group of the
Dia Center for the Arts, and the Dia Art Circle. Support for the
1993-94 exhibitions program has also been provided through a generous
grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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