mobiustrip
Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport/Media Space Gallery
September 18, 2004 – January 2, 2005
Opening Reception: Friday, September 17, 2004, 7 – 9 pm
The Mobius Artists Group creates and performs experimental work in all media, and has for over twenty-five years been Boston's primary presenter of performance, installation, video, and sound art.
mobiustrip is a collaboration among all twelve current Mobius artist-members, who have created a video installation that features individual short video art clips woven together into a metaphorical Möbius strip. A Möbius strip is a surface with only one side, formed by giving a half-twist to a narrow strip of paper and then pasting its two ends together, a dimensional paradox. Visitors do not need to know that in order to view the work, but it may help them detect the ways in which this spatial arrangement influenced the artists and the relationships among the segments.
Each video is meant to represent a different letter of the word "mobiusmobius" through a sound or a shape-objects start with, or simply use, each letter. The outcome is a fun and unpredictable video rebus puzzle, as the videos swerve between the abstract and the concrete. Each artist was assigned a primary letter from "mobiusmobius," along with the following letter as a secondary motif. For example, if the artist was assigned the letter "m," the letter "o" is also incorporated. Here are some of the ways that the artists represented the letters:
- In American Sign Language
- By a visual shape
- By a tracing of a moving object
- By a path taken by the videographer
- With something that begins with the same letter
- By the sound of the letter
- By representing the word that is the letter
- With puns
The Mobius Artists Group members who created this work are Bob Raymond, Margaret Bellafiore (Tittemore), Marilyn Arsem, Jed Speare, Nancy Adams, Joanne Rice, Marjorie Morgan, David Miller, Mari Novotny-Jones, Tom Plsek, Larry Johnson, and Milan Kohout. mobiustrip is organized by DeCordova's Curator of New Media George Fifield.
Programs
Meet the Artists
Third Floor Lobby, Saturdays at 3 pm
The act of creating artwork can be just as exciting as looking at the final product. Meet New England and regional artists to discuss their work on view at DeCordova in the current exhibitions.
| Mari Novotny-Jones and Milan Kohout | October 30 |
| Jed Speare and Larry Johnson | November 6 |
