Opening Tuesday! Center for Visual Music is pleased to loan two restored films by Jordan Belson, Allures (1961) and Meditation (1971), to the Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Opening August 26, we have a black box gallery in the Seoul Museum of Art for these films.
*Seance: Technology of the Spirit* will present new and existing work from artists around the world, past and present, who have drawn on occult, mystical, and spiritual traditions. Key to the 13th edition is that these alternative “technologies” contest the accelerationist and rationalistic logics of capitalist modernity, and might therefore resist—and reconfigure—the political and intellectual structures that shape our experience. Through November 23. This is our second recent Biennale for Jordan’s films; a few years ago CVM loaned Samadhi to the Sao Paulo Bienale, Brasil. “Meditation is an extended visual metaphor of a mind in meditation. Its strength does not lie in the accuracy with which it represents specific details of meditative states—the "shining ocean," "luminous waves," "diving deep through your spiritual eye," and so on—but in its fidelity to the forms light is given by visual processes within the central nervous system. The specks of light and misty, glowing colors, the symmetry and circles, the mutating forms, are characteristic of hallucinations of many kinds—though they seldom achieve the organic unity of Meditation —and they recur in many variations throughout Belson's work as a whole.” -- William Wees CVM thanks the NFPF for its support for the restoration of Allures and Meditation. Both were photochemically restored from Jordan’s original 16mm a/b/c rolls and mags. CVM worked closely with Jordan over years on the restoration and distribution of many of his films, plus producing his DVD and final film *Epilogue*. He curated the original version of our retrospective *Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane*, with many restored films, which still screens at venues worldwide. Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger
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