On the occasion of the exhibition Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, we are pleased to present a special screening event.
Join us on Thursday, April 9 at 6:00 PM at Sprüth Magers for a presentation of Nancy Holt’s influential 1978 film Sun Tunnels, alongside the 1971 film Swamp, co-authored with Robert Smithson. Following the screening, Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation, will offer reflections on Holt’s enduring relevance as a filmmaker.
This event marks the Los Angeles premiere of a newly restored digital scan of Swamp, produced through a collaboration between the Holt/Smithson Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art to preserve Holt and Smithson’s moving-image work. Swamp probes the mechanics of perception through sight, foregrounding the limits of technology as a substitute for human vision. Sun Tunnels documents the making of Holt’s landmark earthwork of the same name in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, revealing her deep trust in, and respect for, the skilled labor that brought the work into being.
Presented in partnership with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Holt/Smithson Foundation, and Sprüth Magers, this screening is part of a series of public programs accompanying the exhibition Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics at the MAK Center.
Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels [still] (1978)
Digitized 16 mm film
Color, sound
Duration: 26 minutes, 31 seconds
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Courtesy Sprüth Magers
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