{"id":191,"date":"2008-02-04T05:11:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T05:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-10-22T05:14:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T05:14:28","slug":"diana-thater-%e2%80%9chere-is-a-text-about-the-world%e2%80%9d-david-zwirner-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/diana-thater-%e2%80%9chere-is-a-text-about-the-world%e2%80%9d-david-zwirner-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Thater, \u201cHere Is a Text About the World\u201d, David Zwirner Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

For ‘Time Out New York’ Magazine
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Diana Thater, 'Horus', Courtesy David Zwirner Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Diana Thater has spent the last year learning all she can about chess and falconry, but don\u2019t expect her latest video installations to provide much edification on either topic. Thater doesn\u2019t seem interested in educating her audience about these ancient pastimes, leaving the viewer frustrated as well as tantalized.<\/p>\n

Unlike the participants in a dog show, raptors don\u2019t take too kindly to competition, so the set-up of the exhibition\u2019s most engaging video, Horus, is immediately puzzling. As Thater\u2019s camera swoops overhead on a crane, falconers of different ages and sexes sit with their birds in an atmospheric ampitheatre as if waiting to go on. Nobody goes anywhere, however, which only makes you wonder what all the medieval-looking hoods, straps and other equipment used to calm the birds say about the piece\u2019s apparent subject \u2013 the relationship between falcon and handler.<\/p>\n

Likewise, Thater promises stories without really telling any in a series of individually titled video reenactments of legendary chess matches. In Gary Kasparov vs Deep Junior, for example, we see the legendary Russian grand master pitted against a computer, a contest which certainly offers fertile symbolic possibilities. But absent the gallery\u2019s explanatory handout, it looks just like the other videos in this group, all of which show similar scenes of hands moving pieces on a board. Even so, Thater\u2019s work, beautiful as it is, inspires at least an appreciation for her subjects (her players move their fingers with the poise of dancers). It may entice you to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ‘Time Out New York’ Magazine Diana Thater has spent the last year learning all she can about chess and falconry, but don\u2019t expect her latest video installations to provide much edification on either topic. Thater doesn\u2019t seem interested in educating her audience about these ancient pastimes, leaving the viewer frustrated as well as tantalized. … <\/p>\n

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