The exhibition Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest at the New Museum in New York City is the most comprehensive presentation of Pipilotti Rist’s work in New York to date. Rist’s show occupies the three main floors of the museum. It includes work spanning the Swiss artist’s entire career, from her early single-channel videos of the 1980s, which explore the representation of the female body in popular culture, to her recent expansive video installations, which transform architectural spaces into massive dreamlike environments enhanced by hypnotic musical scores. Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest features a new installation created specifically for this presentation and also reveals connections between the development of Rist’s art and the evolution of contemporary technologies. Ranging from the television monitor to the cinema screen, and from the intimacy of the smartphone to the communal experience of immersive images and soundscapes, the exhibition charts the ways in which Rist’s work fuses the biological with the electronic in the ecstasy of communication.
Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest at the New Museum, New York City. Press preview and opening reception, October 25, 2016.
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Complete video (14:03 min.):
Works in this video:
- Open My Glade (Flatten), 2000. Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine.
- Mutaflor, 1996. Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine.
- 4th Floor To Mildness, 2016. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine. Music and text by Soap&Skin / Anja Plaschg. Courtesy Flora Musikverlag and [PIAS] Recordings.
- Pixelwald (Pixel Forest), 2016. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine. / Mercy Garden, 2014. Sound by Heinz Rohrer. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine. / Worry Will Vanish Horizon, 2014. Sound by Anders Guggisberg. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine.
- Massachusetts Chandelier, 2010. Courtesy Marguerite Steed Hoffman and Deedie Rose.
- Administrating Eternity, 2011. Collection Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
- Ever Is Over All, 1997. Sound by Anders Guggisberg and Rist. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine.
- Sip My Ocean, 1996. Sound by Anders Guggisberg and Rist after “Wicked Game” (1989) by Chris Isaak. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine.
- Vorstadthirn (Suburb Brain), 1999. Friedrich Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. / Die Unschuldige Sammlung (The Innocent Collection), 1985. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine.
- You Called Me Jacky, 1990. Music: Kevin Coyne, “Jackie and Edna” (1973). Courtesy the artist; Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York; videoart.ch; Hauser & Wirth; and Luhring Augustine.
- Pickelporno (Pimple Porno), 1992. Sound by Peter Bräker and Les Reines Prochaines. Courtesy the artist; Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York; videoart.ch; Hauser & Wirth; and Luhring Augustine.
- Selbstlos im Lavabad (Selfless In The Bath of Lava) (Bastard Version), 1994. Courtesy the artist; Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York; videoart.ch; Hauser & Wirth; and Luhring Augustine.