| Dates: | born 1963
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Born 1963, Nevada, Iowa, USA. Lives
and works in New York City, USA
Solo exhibitions
Timelines, 2005, Kunstverein und
Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland
Currents 94: Matthew
Buckingham,
2005, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis,
MO, USA
Concentrations 44: Matthew
Buckingham, 2004, A Man of the
Crowd, Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas, TX, USA
A Man of the Crowd, 2003,
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Definition, 2002, PS.1
Contemporary Art
Center, Long Island City, NY USA
Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to
Live in a Free State (with Joachim
Koester), 2001, x-rum-met, Statens
Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Situation Leading to a Story,
2000,
Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Selected group exhibitions
Harun Farocki, 2006, Matthew
Buckingham, Amie Siegel, Kunst-
Werke, Berlin, Germany
In Absentia, 2005, d'Art
Passerelle,
Brest, France
Universal Experience: Art, Life and
the
Tourists Eye, 2005, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Faces in the Crowd. 2004, White-
chapel
Art Gallery, London, UK
Common Property. 2004, Werk-
leitz
Biennale. Halle, Germany
Territories, 2003. Kunst-Werke,
Berlin,
Germany
Homeland, 2003, Whitney ISP
CUNY
Graduate Center, New York, NY. USA
Nostalgia, 2002, Art In General,
New
York, NY USA
Definition, 2001. Murray Guy,
New York,
NY USA
May Day Vienna. 2000,
Kunsthalle
Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Greater New York, P.S.1, 2000.
Contemporary Art Center. Long Island
City. NY USA
Selected screenings
Cine y casi cine. 2005, Museo
Nacional
Centra de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid,
Spain
MediaScope, 2005. The Museum
of
Modern Art, New York, NY USA
Identify! or Studies on a Political
Subject, 2004, The New School,
New
York, NY, USA
Matthew Buckingham 2003,
Akademie
der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Three Films by Matthew
Buckingham
2000. Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Further reading
Jennifer Allen, 'Clues, Shadows and
Faces - Interview with Matthew
Buckingham1, Metropolis M, 5
(2004),
pp. 95-106
Matthew Buckingham, Sandra of the
Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free
State, Copenhagen: x-rummet,
Statens
Museum for Kunst, 2001
Matthew Buckingham,
Subcutaneous,
artist's book, New York: Murray
Guy/Shark Books, 2001
Anselm Franke, A Man of the Crowd:
annotated associations with Edgar Allan
Poe's tale 'The Man of the Crowd', in
Untitled (Experience of Place),
ed.
Gregor Neuerer, London: König Books
Ltd/Cologne: Verlag der Buch-handlung
Walter König, 2003
Anselm Franke, 'Matthew Buckingham',
Parkett, 72 (2004), pp. 6-16
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Although film features strongly in
Matthew Buckingham's work, he is also
the author of drawings, photographs,
slide projections, postcards, plaques (on
bus stop benches), videos and essays.
Always meticulously researched and
documented, his work seems to
be 'about' the construction of histories,
and the peculiar blending of fact and
mythology that is necessary for their
emergence. And he takes a long view of
history,
reminding us that we are now in the
sixth century of 'globalisation'.
So despite the mass and detail of
interest in his work from the point of view
of film theory, there is much at stake in
it that is more than theoretical. Most
obviously, his placement of film
within 'installation' suggests a concern to
create situations that are experienced
physically, in a 'disorderly' way through
the body, not simply apprehended
through the 'ordered' intellect.
Narration is a way to order our
experience, and Buckingham's focus on
the way in which people narrate their
experiences reveals the availability of
other methods of social and political
navigation. Used as we are to narratives
with conclusions, the work may seem
unresolved, but this is precisely where it
is also transformative: it insists on a
certain level of disorientation to
encourage us to 'unlearn' our perceptual
habits and offers the potential to discover
new ways of experiencing the world.
Lewis Biggs
| | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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