Untitled by Aïda Ruilova
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York
June 30 - September 7, 2003
Aïda Ruilova's new video, Untitled, will be featured in its East coast premiere after an initial showing in the master's degree exhibition The Lengths, curated by Center graduate student Kelly Taxter, on view at the Museum from April 13 to 27, 2003.
Aïda Ruilova created Untitled during her residency at ArtPace in Texas and this is a recent acquisition by the Marieluise Hessel Collection on permanent loan to the Center for Curatorial Studies.
Aïda Ruilova creates short videos that exploit cinematic collage and editing that exploit cinematic collage and editing techniques to evoke psychological tensions. Focusing on the relationships among sound, image, and duration, she interlaces her strong interest in music with a gothic aesthetic inspired, in part, by camp and B-movie horror and vampire flicks of the 1970s.
Aïda Ruilova studied at the University of South Florida and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has recently been shown at the Impakt film festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands; the New Museum and P.S. 1 in New York City; and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. She is also a member of the alternative music group Alva, which has released two CDs.
Other summer exhibitions at CCS:
Theory and Observation: New Work by Slater Bradley
Sodium Dreams, curated by Elizabeth Fisher
