Victor Burgin

 
Victor Burgin's early photo-text pieces are among the seminal works of conceptual art. Since the 1990s, moving image works have taken over from that specific type of montage. Circling, panning, zooming movements draw us artificial image sequences; voices off-screen or intertitles permeate and carry the images. In this way Victor Burgin generates completely new, exciting visual and textual contexts. Here, the use of inner monologue may be as important as the connection between an inner idea and the external world. These discontinuing encounters between images and narrative threads are one thing, suggestive of surrealism and dreams, but his work is also political in an extremely up-to-date sense. Victor Burgin reacts to places and situations, to the cities in which he is invited to exhibit. Intuitively, he follows a trail of personal associations triggered by what he finds on site. In this context, he often recalls something else – a book, a film or a personal memory. As the artist once put it, he sees the world of images and narratives as a theorist who teaches, gives lectures and publishes books, and as an artist who exhibits his works in galleries and museums.
Victor Burgin is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of London. His theory books include The Remembered Film (Reaktion Books, 2004) and In / Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture (University of California Press, 1996).
 
Victor Burgin - Projectif - Essais sur l\'œuvre de Victor Burgin
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
Victor Burgin - Scripts
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Since 1993 Victor Burgin has produced projection works, in video or digital form. These works, like all his production since the early 1970s, include a substantial textual component which this book offers for appreciation independently of the images.
Victor Burgin - Projective - Essays about the work of Victor Burgin
2014
English edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
Victor Burgin - Five Pieces for Projection
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Five Pieces for Projection introduces recent projection work from 2010 to 2014, with an essay by Hanne Loreck, an afterword by Eva Schmidt and texts by Victor Burgin.


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