http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/JosephineMeckseper Recent or recently updated pages on the Whitney Museum of American Art website &copy; 2012 Whitney Museum of American Art en-us Economy <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/2010Biennial/JosephineMeckseper</font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/JosephineMeckseper"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0015/1326/blank_319.png" /></a></p> <div><p>Through carefully composed installations, photographs, and films, Josephine Meckseper exposes the political ramifications of America&rsquo;s culture of consumption. In this work, Meckseper uses a video camera to explore Minneapolis&rsquo;s Mall of America&mdash;one of the top tourist destinations in the United States&mdash;pausing to examine window displays, sale signs, and dormant rides in its indoor amusement park.<br /><br />Meckseper then manipulates the footage, employing ironically patriotic red and blue filters&mdash;a technique inspired by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. The artist also turns the footage on its side and adds a vaguely sinister soundtrack. The result is an abstraction of otherwise documentary images and a sense of alienation and disorientation. The mall becomes a hostile, dangerous place. When Meckseper happens upon a flight simulator attraction in the mall, she includes footage from the fighter pilot movie on display and from the simulator, injecting a military presence&mdash;albeit a fictional one. In both the mall and in Meckseper&rsquo;s video, the experience of war and violence is not only sanitized and stripped of meaning, it is for sale.</p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:27:04 -0500 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/JosephineMeckseper http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/JosephineMeckseper