Works by Jeff Preiss, Anthony McCall, Josiah McElheny, Andrea Fraser, Nicolás Guagnini, Moyra Davey, Barney Simon and Isaac Preiss

Performances by Josiah McElheny and Anthony McCall

Spring-Wound is composed of six films produced at Orchard by Jeff Preiss working in collaboration with:

Andrea Fraser: Orchard Document: May I Help You? (text 1991) 2005, (16mm to DVD)

Nicolás Guagnini: Discharge, 2005, (16mm to DVD)

Anthony McCall: Orchard Document: Five-minute Drawing. April 27, 2008. First realized at Art Meeting Place, London, on June 18, 1974. 2008 (Video)

Josiah McElheny, Light Club, 2008 (16mm to DVD)

Moyra Davey, Isaac Preiss and Barney Simon: High School Am Over/Gin Crash 2008 (YouTube).

Within this grouping of collaborative work is a new film by Jeff Preiss:

Spring-Wound, 2005-2008 (16mm to DVD). Spanning the duration of Orchard’s program, Spring-Wound’s content and organizing principle records the collision between cinema’s claim as a virtual cognizance and the limitations of the mechanism that facilitates its production.

The exhibition will open on Sunday, April 27th at 6:00 pm with two performances:

((No entry during the performances beginning at 7pm. Audio of the performances will be transmitted to the street))

Josiah McElheny presents The Light Club of Batavia based on translations of Der Lichtklub von Batavia, by Paul Scheerbart, published in 1912 in Die Kritische Tribüne (vol. 1 / issue 1). Performers will include John Miller, Claudia Steinberg and Gregory Volk.

Anthony McCall: Five-minute Drawing, April 27, 2008, first realized at Art Meeting Place, London, on June 18,1973. This piece performs a record of duration’s relationship to distance in 2 dimensional space, referencing the symmetrical operations of both visual perspective and projected light.

Also on view during the exhibition will be the premier of a slide work by Anthony McCall entitled Slit-Scan originally conceived in 1972, and a new installation by Josiah McElheny: Model for a Film Set (The Light Spa in the Mine).

The publication of McElheny’s book The Light Club of Batavia will be presented as part of the exhibition.