THE DALLAS BIENNIAL // MAY 31 // 7-10PM

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DB12: VOLUME 1C-FILM
Free Film Screening at the Historic Texas Theatre
Featuring the artists Robert Smithson, Nam June Paik and Artur Barrio
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Children! You have just seen the Buddha. What would that friend
of God and humankind, that human being in all his dignity, have to say about art? He would
say art should release from itself something so massively hindered by present conditions that art
suffers from this obstruction, that humankind suffers from this obstruction, that the entire future of
humanity suffers from this obstruction. Would say art should liberate something that would
represent a new form of art. Would say this something is the social sculpture, the art-work, art
that no longer refers solely to the modern art world, to the artist, but comprehends a notion
of art relating to everyone and to very question and problem of the social organism in which
people live. Without doubt, such a notion of art would no longer refer exclusively to the
specialists within the modern art world but extend to the whole work of humanity.

To refer to the whole work of humanity means to relate to all these fields which a freely
made decision shall bring into a form by which they create, by virtue of human strength,
a future structure which ought to be based on freedom. For what would art be without the
notion of freedom. What would the notion of human creativity signify without the notion
of human freedom. Thus, it can only be a matter of developing a notion of culture, a
notion of spirituality, that is more comprehensive than the one existing at present." --
Joseph Beuys with Nam June Paik and Douglas Davis, Documenta 6 Satellite Telecast

Films featured include:
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty
Nam June Paik: Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, Documenta 6 Satellite Telecast, and Lake Placid
’80
Artur Barrio: Situations, T/T 1

With a special presentation of the sound work Peers by Chicago based artist Lou Mallozzi

Doors open at 7pm, films begin at 8pm

The Texas Theatre is a movie theater and Dallas Landmark located in the Oak Cliff
neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It gained historical fame for being the place Lee Harvey
Oswald, the man suspected of killing President John F. Kennedy was arrested after a
brief fight. Today it hosts a mix of repertory cinema and special events.

231 W. Jefferson Blvd
Oak Cliff, TX 75208
Box office: (214)948-1546