Kerry James Marshall
(c)image: Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, and Koplin Del Rio, CA
Theoretical Video, 1998-1999
Installation
, 86 x (10.1 x 15.2 cm), 18 x (50.8 x 60.9 cm)
102 c-prints
Theoretical Video (1998 – 1999) is an installation comprising a long sequence of photographs mounted in a horizontal band along the wall, presented as if they are the individual frames of a video film. The images are selected from video footage Marshall shot in Chicago's South Side from the window of his home.
They create a fragmented, experimental narrative focusing predominantly on Chicago's annual Bud Billiken Parade, including, in large part, the scene of beauty queens in parade, along with marching bands and clowns, bringing a surreal, carnivalesque, feeling to an otherwise underprivileged neighbourhood.
