Exhibitions
In fall 2006 The Lab launched its exhibitions program with Fantôme Afrique, a three-screen film installation by British artist Isaac Julien. This is the works United States debut. The Lab was one of three institutions to co-commission the work along with the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Ellipse Foundation in Portugal. Julien is Britain’s preeminent black filmmaker, as well as an artist, writer, and scholar known for exploring the relationship between history and visual pleasure.
Shot in Africa, Fantôme Afrique incorporates archival footage from early colonial expeditions and African political history. Inspired by French author André Gide’s 1925 expedition to Africa with his filmmaker companion Marc Allegret, the film presents dance, architecture and the cinematic milieu itself to explore the creative possibilities that emerge at the point of interaction between local and global culture.
In spring 2007 Liam Gillick organized an exhibition and design an environment featuring a selection of films and videos made by Americans documenting their personal stories. Gillick is collaborating with professional folklorists and ethnographers to produce and exhibit a range of material which may include home movies, oral histories, video testimonials or other forms of amateur and professional documentation of individual stories.
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