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It’s an 18-minute video installation which winds its way from an imaginary Chinese restaurant in Astoria to Nazi-occupied Paris, and it’s on display as a 50×8-foot-long projection in the Museum of the Moving Image’s lobby through September 21st. American Meshuggana, which the host venue commissioned, uses text-based animations set to an original jazz score on a black-and-white shot of urban traffic. The piece is by the South Korea-based, two-artist collective Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, which consists of Young-Hae Chang and Marc Voge. They specialize in a distinct brand of fast-paced, text-based video works. Using Adobe Flash, they synchronize rapidly moving text (in 21 languages) with original jazz scores, creating videos that blur the boundary between poetry and moving image.

Details: American Meshuggana, Museum of the Moving Image Lobby, 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, on display through September 21st, free with admission.

Photo: Museum of the Moving Image


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