- About the Work
- About the Artist
- Interview
- Responses
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Excerpt of Chicago footage from Catherine Sullivan’s multichannel installation Triangle of Need, 2007. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Catherine Bastide, and Metro Pictures.
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Excerpt of Vizcaya footage from Catherine Sullivan’s multichannel installation Triangle of Need, 2007. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Catherine Bastide, and Metro Pictures.
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Excerpt from ARTV 24103’s single-channel video Untitled, 2008. Courtesy the artists.
Excerpt of Chicago footage from Catherine Sullivan’s multichannel installation Triangle of Need, 2007. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Catherine Bastide, and Metro Pictures.
Excerpt from Vizcaya footage of Catherine Sullivan’s multichannel installation Triangle of Need, 2007. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Catherine Bastide, and Metro Pictures.
Excerpt from ARTV 24103’s single-channel video Untitled, 2008. Courtesy the artists.
Responses
NEVER BRING A LABOR-SAVING DEVICE TO A LABOR-SATURATED PLACE: ON CATHERINE SULLIVAN’S TRIANGLE OF NEED
Matthew Jesse Jackson
Assistant Professor, Departments of Visual Arts and Art History, University of Chicago
Passing bodies interrupt your view. Abandoned headphones clang on the benches around you.
You try to acclimate yourself to the four video monitors and Dr. Patrick Obi’s e-mail, but it is impossible not to ignore some part of the work. You grow frustrated.
The peripheral presence of the skater–teenage girls throws a monkey wrench into your viewing. There is always this other situation of acumen, celebration, enjoying, learning, participating, perfecting, and testing that plays no role on the three main screens. Call it a sidebar, a footnote on skill and intimacy. Intruding into the corner of your eye, it irritates you. Read more…