New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery
212.219.1222
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Ryan Trecartin, I-Be AREA, Courtesy Elizabeth Dee Gallery
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Friday Dec 14, 2007 (7–9pm)
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$8
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Note: A full-length screening of I-Be AREA takes place at the New Museum on Sat Dec 8 (3pm).
The New Museum's new-media offshoot, Rhizome, has a sleek new home, both on the Internet and at 235 Bowery — where tonight, Rhizome chief Lauren Cornell sits down with LA-based artist Ryan Trecartin to discuss his frenetic, unsettling home movies. The youngest artist in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Trecartin combines Warhol's Factory concept — corralling friends into a riotous cast of dysfunctional characters — and Jack Smith's B-movie aesthetic, blending them with a big helping of Providence psychedelia, as he and his friends dress in drag and chat in valley-girl falsettos about whatever. All told, Trecartin's latest movie, I-Be AREA, and his breakout work, A Family Finds Entertainment, are frightening caricatures of this hyper-caffeinated, narcissism-fueled generation.
