LINE_038 | DVD NTSC/REGION FREE | Edition of 1000 | February 2009
Colorfield Variations is a collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists and assembled by curator and sound artist Richard Chartier.
VIEW THE TRAILER: vimeo.com/77456171
STEVE RODEN (US) dark over light earth / 13:00
ALAN CALLANDER (US) cf01 / 04:52
FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER (DE) looping i-vi (excerpt) / 12:00
STEPHAN MATHIEU (DE) orange was the color of her dress / 10:00
SUE COSTABILE (US) + BEEQUEEN (NL) amp_swell / 03:49
TEZ (IT) CF #1-2n / 05:10
TINA FRANK + GENERAL MAGIC (AT) Chronomops / 02:00
BAS VAN KOOLWIJK (NL) FDBCK/AV – Silver / 03:29
CHRIS CARTER + COSEY FANNI TUTTI (UK) Chronomanic Redux / 10:00
RYOICHI KUROKAWA (JP) Scorch / 03:04
SAWAKO (JP) flirting 07121602 / 03:15
E.DOMNITCH + D.GELFAND (RU/US) 10,000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid / 08:00
ERNEST EDMONDS (AU) + MARK FELL (UK) Broadway One (excerpt) / 02:00
Color Field painting, an abstract style that emerged as a new direction in American painting in the 1950s following Abstract Expressionism, is characterized by canvases painted primarily with stripes, washes and fields of solid color. An alternate but less frequently encountered term for this style is chromatic abstraction. As the first critically acclaimed art movement to originate in the United States’s capital, the Washington Color School was key to the larger Color Field movement. As a reaction to the emotional energy and gestural surfaces of Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field artists broke away from the individual mark in favor of pure color itself becoming the main content of the work. By breaking painting down to its formal and fundamental elements, the Color Field artists created pure, simplified, large-format, color-dominated fields on often monumental scale utilizing the full psychological power of color.
Artists such as Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Larry Poons, Gene Davis, Jules Olitski, and others eliminated recognizable imagery from their canvas and presented abstraction as an end in itself with each work being a cohesive image. The Color Field movement can be seen as a precursor to the themes and aesthetics of the subsequent Minimalist movement.
This program in its original form with special live audio/visual performances by Ernest Edmonds + Mark Fell and Sawako at the Corcoran Gallery of Art was commissioned by Washington Project for the Arts as part of the citywide ColorField.Remix events which took place in April-June 2007 in Washington, DC, celebrating The Washington Color School. Since its creation, Colorfield Variations continues to be screened internationally.
INTERFERENCE TOTE BAG
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Drono –
CD
DEREK PIOTR
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A Gradual Accumulation of Ideas Becomes Truth –
CD
ROBERT TAKAHASHI CROUCH
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Singulum –
CD
FRANCE JOBIN
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Isolation –
CD
FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
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Ornamente (zwischen Null und Eins) –
CD
ASMUS TIETCHENS
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Meta –
CD
RICHARD GARET
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Days –
CD
TRIAC
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Sleepwalkers in a Cold Circus –
CD
KOENRAAD ECKER
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Program –
CD
NHK
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Suite Nuit –
CD
FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER + STEVE RODEN
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Forms of Forgetting –
CD
SETH CLUETT
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Source Voice –
CD
AGF
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Description of Problem –
CD
PINKCOURTESYPHONE
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Presque Tout (Quiet Pieces 1993-2013) –
DATA DVD
FRANCISCO LÓPEZ
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frequencies (a / fragments) –
CD
NICOLAS BERNIER
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Interior Field –
CD
RICHARD CHARTIER
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Liquified Sky DVD by Domnitch, Gelfand, COH, López, Prudence, Tietchens
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Aurora Liminalis –
CD
WILLIAM BASINSKI + RICHARD CHARTIER
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Recurrence –
CD
RICHARD CHARTIER
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For/Not For John Cage –
CD
LAWRENCE ENGLISH
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Kippschwingungen –
CD
FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
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Built Through –
CD
ROBERT CURGENVEN + RICHARD CHARTIER
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Radioland (Panorámica) –
CD
STEPHAN MATHIEU + CARO MIKALEF
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Valence –
CD
FRANCE JOBIN
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Proximities –
CD
STEVE RODEN
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Soirée –
CD
ASMUS TIETCHENS
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8 Studies for Automatic Piano –
CD
SETH HORVITZ
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Transparency (performance) –
CD
RICHARD CHARTIER
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Objects of Memory –
CD
SETH CLUETT
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Twin Radiant Flux –
CD
SCOTT CORTEZ
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Relocation.Reconstruction –
CD
YANN NOVAK
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Richard Chartier's LINE publishes editions documenting compositional & installation works by international sound artists & composers exploring the aesthetics of minimalism.
