Artist Terence Nance on the Experiment of Presenting His Film Work in a Museum

When an artist creates a work of moving images, they typically have limited control over how that work is viewed, beholden to the rigidity of a movie theater or the vagaries of a viewer’s home television setup.

Filmmaker Terence Nance spoke with us about the opportunities to experiment with film presentation in a gallery space for his solo exhibition "Terence Nance: Swarm," presented by ‪@BlackStarProjects‬ at ‪@ICAPhiladelphia‬. The installation includes films viewed from rotating seats and reflected on water, nontraditional screen sizes and orientations, and personal artifacts.

"Terence Nance: Swarm" is on view at the ICA through July 9, 2023.

Filmed April 20, 2023 at the Institute of Contemporary Art at ‪@penn‬.

‪@terenceetc‬ is an artist, musician, and filmmaker whose work includes the semi-animated feature An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, the Peabody Award-winning ‪@HBO‬ series "Random Acts of Flyness," and the genre-straddling 2022 album "V O R T E X." He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 and a United States Artist Fellowship in 2018. BlackStar Projects’ Terence Nance: Swarm, presented at the ICA, is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s interdisciplinary work.

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