<b>New podcast: FONS ÀUDIO #17. Judith Barry. </b><br><br>Judith Barry's installations can be considered to be <b>an
intersection of different disciplines (architecture, sculpture, film,
video, performance) forged in the seventies when postmodern theories
first arrived on the art scene.</b> A substantial part of Barry's work,
which is closely linked to feminism, revolves around issues of gender
identity and the relationship between individuals and the urban
environment. With the idea of documenting the work of artists in the
MACBA Collection, FONS ÀUDIO talks with Judith Barry.<br><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_judith_barry/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_judith_barry/capsula</a><br>Related info: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_judith_barry/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_judith_barry/capsula</a><br>
<br>Educated
at UC Berkeley in the seventies, in an academic context marked by the
radical changes that took place in the sixties as a result of the
convergence of structuralism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and media
theory, Judith Barry (Columbus, 1954) went on to develop an artistic
practice that is closely linked to research. In her pieces, which have
roots in performance and links to other disciplines, but are mainly
presented as installations, theory is just as important as form, which
is often based on a cumulative strategy. Through these interplays of
overlapping ideas and images, Barry creates ambivalent spaces that
highlight the tensions between conceptual coldness and sensual impulses.
In spite of a self-confessed lack of formal continuity, it is not
difficult to understand Barry’s body of work as a whole, as a coherent
evolution, thanks to recurring elements such as the treatment of space
(urban, architectural, personal) and the use of architecture as
metaphor, which have been pivotal in much of her career.<br><br>In a
kind of extension of Henri Lefebvre’s ideas on the social production of
space, Barry often uses architecture as a means by which to make
political, economic or gender conventions visible. In her work, complex
networks of social relationships that resist representation become
macrophysical structures that spectators can interact with almost
intuitively. In this process of reification, film plays a key role:
Barry takes advantage of the almost universal nature of cinema and the
familiarity of its language to transmit ideas, evoke sensations and
create an interplay between the memories and experiences of spectators
and the sound and visual stimuli of the piece. 'Echo' (1986) and 'In the
Shadow of the City... Vam p r y' (1985), the two works by Barry in the
MACBA Collection, are, in fact, good examples of this superimposition of
audiovisual materials that favours the multiplicity of readings that is
a characteristic of all her installations. Barry’s non-linear
compositions invite spectators to constantly change their viewpoint, and
urge them towards critical analysis, to question their own position in
respect to the work and their conceptual and narrative baggage. In this
dense fog of analogies, popular iconography, film culture and formal
elements from advertising, Barry builds multi-stable structures: plays
on perspective that are more ideological than visual, in which nothing
is what it seems, and where the collision between images, sounds, signs
and symbols can always be reinterpreted from another point of view.<br><br>Previous episodes:<b><br>
FONS ÀUDIO #12. Kristin Oppenheim</b><br><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fonsaudio_kristin_oppenheim/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fonsaudio_kristin_oppenheim/capsula</a><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20111219/Fons12_eng.0.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20111219/Fons12_eng.0.pdf</a><br>
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<b>FONS ÀUDIO #9. Rita McBride</b><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fonsaudio_ritamcbride/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fonsaudio_ritamcbride/capsula</a><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110630/Fons9_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110630/Fons9_eng.pdf</a><br>
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<b>FONS ÀUDIO #7. The Otolith Group</b><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_audio_the_otolith_group/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_audio_the_otolith_group/capsula</a><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110510/Fons7_eng_PDF.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110510/Fons7_eng_PDF.pdf</a><br>
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<b>FONS ÀUDIO #4. Jef Cornelis</b><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_audio_jef_cornelis/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_audio_jef_cornelis/capsula</a><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20101025/Fons4_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20101025/Fons4_eng.pdf</a><br>
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<b>FONS ÀUDIO #3. Deimantas Narkevicius</b><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20100628/Fons3_eng.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20100628/Fons3_eng.pdf</a><br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_audio_deimantas_narkevicius/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons_audio_deimantas_narkevicius/capsula</a><br>