The 59th Minute: 3 Artists
The Neistat Brothers, Hiraki Sawa, Janaina Tschäpe
January 21-April 30, 2004
Times Square
Photo courtesy of Creative Time
In celebration of the third anniversary of The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Astrovision by Panasonic, Creative Time proudly presented three videos by emerging contemporary artists. The three works, Mousetrap, Dwelling, and Dream Sequence I by The Neistat Brothers, Hiraki Sawa, and Janaina Tschäpe, respectively, recast everyday objects–a mousetrap, an airplane, a bed–with an absurdist and dreamlike spirit, displacing their commonplace qualities with unlikely circumstances to produce an eye-catching blend of reality and fiction.
The 59th Minute showcased the works of emerging and established artists in the heart of Times Square. The Neistats, Sawa, and Tschäpe continued the series’ tradition of offering exposure to artists in the world’s media capital and, in doing so, presenting artistic content as an antidote to the entrenched commercialism of Times Square.