Jenny Holzer: Collaboration | Art21 "Exclusive"

Episode #033: Jenny Holzer and poet Henri Cole with various "Redaction Paintings" in her studio in Hoosick Falls, New York, and "BIG HANDS YELLOW WHITE" (2006) installed at Cheim & Read, New York. Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT, an exhibition of works from the past twenty years, opens at the MCA Chicago next week.

Whether questioning consumerist impulses, coldly describing torture, or lamenting death and disease, Jenny Holzers use of language provokes a critical response in the viewer. While her subversive work often blends in among advertisements in public space, its arresting content violates expectations. Holzers texts have appeared on posters, as electronic L.E.D. signs, and as projections of xenon light.

Jenny Holzer is featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Protest of the "Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century" television series on PBS.

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Learn more about Jenny Holzer: http://www.art21.org/artists/jenny-holzer

VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins & Nick Ravich. Camera: Mead Hunt & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Artwork courtesy: Jenny Holzer. Thanks: Henri Cole and Cheim & Read, New York.

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[ThePerplexions]

i love art 21, but make clips at least 3 minutes. all these vids are too short, and the intro-logo should overlap/merge with the presentation immediately, thus feeling undelayed,going right to it.

[kleonard1990]

Should of called it artUSA

[Slipjig9]

this lady has zero personality.

[frege666]

This is exciting. I adore Henri Cole's poetry.