[spectre] RAUM 3 >>> Phyllis Baldino

[Alena Williams]

 >>> Please Note:  Artist's Talk, TOMORROW, Wednesday, June 1 at 6 pm

PHYLLIS BALDINO

Exhibition of Six Single-Channel Videos
Special event in RAUM 3, Ziegelstrasse 20, Berlin
2 - 5 June 2005

A selection of single-channel videos by the Brooklyn-based artist 
Phyllis Baldino will be presented in RAUM 3 in Mitte from Thursday, 
June 2 – Sunday, June 5. Trained as a sculptor, Baldino’s early video 
work involved the construction and disassembly of ordinary household 
objects in order to describe the mutable space, or "grey area," between 
what constitutes, or doesn't constitute, an object. She explores the 
intangible boundaries between the material and metaphysical world by 
mounting large-scale video installations, which address such topics as 
perception, memory, and other scientific phenomenon.  Her recent work 
represents a continuation of these concepts, but is more abstract in 
nature.

The presentation will include a selection of videos from the Grey Area 
Series, in addition to five large-scale projections of "about symmetry 
symmetry about" (2002), “ParaUniVersesVersesVerses" (2003), and 
“mi-missing-GR-brain” (2002), among others. The exhibition is part of 
IN ABSENTIA, an ongoing summer series of film and video events, curated 
by Alena Williams for RAUM 3.

The program this week will be launched with an artist’s talk on 
Wednesday, June 1 at 6 pm.

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Phyllis Baldino received her BFA in Sculpture from Hartford Art School, 
West Hartford, Connecticut. Her work has been shown at the Museum of 
Modern Art, SoHo Guggenheim, Whitney Museum of American Art, Wexner 
Center for the Arts, Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati), The Thing 
(New York), and in numerous national and international film and video 
festivals, including the Impakt Festival (2002, 2001, 1999), the New 
York Video Festival (2002), the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (2001), 
media_city seoul 2000, and the World Wide Video Festival (2000, 1998, 
1996). In 2001 and 1996, she was a finalist for an international media 
/ art award at the ZKM / Sudwestrundfunk and International Video Arts 
Award (respectively) in Baden-Baden. Her work will be included in 
“Hunch,” an upcoming exhibition at the Artists Space, New York, curated 
by Amy Sillman.

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RAUM 3 is the project space of Bootlab e.v., a non-profit organization, 
which hosts a number of groups and individuals working on media related 
projects. Our research areas of interest include ASCII strategies, 
surveillance, copyright, cyberfeminism, wireless networks, free radio 
(reboot.fm), and Open Source. Located in Berlin-Mitte, Bootlab is 
housed in the former Telegraphy Center of Berlin, which also once 
served as the headquarters for the East German Telecom. Bootlab has 
received project support from the European Culture Commission, 
Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the Heinrich Boell Stiftung and the Berlin 
City Council. Forthcoming exhibitions will include work by Mika 
Rottenberg, Sarah Beddington, Francis Lamb, Oriana Fox, Josafina Posch, 
Mark Aerial Waller, Lu Chunsheng, Toni Crabb w/Discoteca Flaming Star, 
and Nadja Maurer.

Contact and Hours

Bootlab: RAUM 3
Ziegelstrasse 20 - 10117 Berlin-Mitte
S-Bhf Oranienburger Strasse
Mo-Sa: 14-18 Uhr, So: 16-20 Uhr

T: +49 (0)30 26329577, M: +49 (0)176 235 949 26
http://www.bootlab.org/raum3
alena at bootlab.org