[Frameworks] Michael Snow

[Fred Camper]

Yes, agreed, thanks for that effusive inventory, of which Snow is fully 
worthy.


But something else. I went to his large 1994 retrospective in Toronto. 
Suddenly the films seemed only one part of a much larger project, 
playful and serious, engaginng profoundly with issues of representation 
in art, not in the current narrow sense of the word as to what kind of 
people are included or not included but in the sense of questioning and 
playing with all the ways a visual element in an art work can refer to 
something else. His drawing, paintings, sculptures, holograms, films, 
and yes, rather great slide shows that were not really much like his 
films at all mostly seemed of equal importance to me, and I don't think 
he can be fully understood without seeing a wide range of his work in 
different media. That would include his much later playful video 
installations, also shown in Toronto maybe fifteen years ago.


On the other hand, I don't claim to fully understand him having seen all 
that. Let's hope for more exhibitions...


Fred Camper

Chicago



On 1/6/2023 6:03 PM, Green, Ron Green wrote:
> Ah, I just heard that Michael Snow has died. This really hurts. One of 
> the most astonishingly original, inventive, expansive, minutely 
> microscopic, musical, encyclopedic, poetic, theoretic filmmakers of 
> all time. A magnificent improvising pianist, jazz avant-garde and 
> sound artist and theorist, photographer, book maker, public artist, 
> and multi-dimensional hybridizer. His work is an infinite joy to study 
> and teach. I loved watching him at the various congresses for 
> experimental film and watching him meet and enjoy Klaus Wyborny in 
> Berlin. I loved hearing from one of the curators in a Vienna museum 
> about Snow's amazing performance on solo piano at the Musikverein the 
> month before. Seeing him in attendance years ago at the conference on 
> Hollis Framton in Chicago, one wished such a conference for him—never 
> mind, he was celebrated all over and very often, and will reward 
> attention for a long time. What a lovely person.
>
> Ron Green
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> J. Ronald Green
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> Department of History of Art
> The Ohio State University
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