UNCLASSIFIABLE, 2005-2008
Video Exhibition and screening
Curated by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen & Jenny Yurshansky


UNCLASSIFIABLE showcases video work that steps outside the frames that define video art, cinema, the documentary, and pop-culture. Divided into four hypothetical groupings such as Pop Goes The Video, Re-Sampling Hollywood, Shifting the Fulcrum, Tangential Documentaries, the featured artists in this curatorial project have crossed over the boundaries of these groups, leaving us to question the limits facing creative practice today.

Pop Goes The Video Rehashing: remixing, redefining; an anti-commodification of pop-culture. Desaturate and become more than just a boob in front of the tube; Re-Sampling Hollywood: Hollywood is the ultimate machine churning out desire, utopia/dystopia, and commodification. In a role reversal we find this Goliath being bent to the will of the art world’s Davids; Shifting the Fulcrum: What is the difference between an indie flick and an art flick? If the Hollywood machine is out of the equation and they both follow the short film format, then what is the distinction?; Tangential Documentaries: They slide, they veer, and they are more than a mocumentary. This twist on the documentary will give you the how and what but will leave you pondering the why.

Along with the exhibition UNCLASSIFIABLE, the workshop The Straight Story: Back to Basics was offered as a complementary tool for visitors so that they may gain insight into the exhibition’s premise. The contributing presenters were Tim Christensen and Khaled D. Ramadan.

A selection of the artists who have participated in various editions of this curatorial project are: Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FI), Jo-Anne Balcaen (CA), Miriam Bäckström (SE), Johanna Billing (SE), Candice Breitz (ZA), Erik Bünger (SE), Nathalie Djurberg (SE), Joshua Callaghan (US), Nanna Debois Buhl (DK), Rä di Martino (ITA), Johan Grimonprez (BE), Ashley Hunt (US), Henrik Lund Jørgensen (DK/SE), Jesper Just (DK), Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta Kalleinen (FI/DE), Liisa Lounila (FI), Tova Mozard (SE), Kevin Murphy (US), My Barbarian (US), Anu Pennanen (FI), Jenny Perlin (US), Axel Petersén (SE), Adrian Piper (US), Planningtorock (Janine Rostron) (UK), Khaled D. Ramadan (LB/DK), Jani Ruscica (FI), Egill Sæbjörnsson (IS), Salla Tykkä (FI), Jeffrey Vallance (US).





Photograph by Rodrigo Vazquez
© Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen