the art of the motorcycle exhibition projections

the guggenheim museum's best attended exhibition, 'the art of the motorcycle,' was selected as the opening show for the museum's newest addition, the las vegas guggenheim. a major component of the exhibition was added for the occasion, a collage of moving images and sound following the chronology of motorcycles in film and popular culture. hope hall directed these films alongside producer ultan guilfoyle.

these multi-channel projections consist of two ten minute loops edited to a single soundtrack and projected onto two 20' x 30' screens, and a three minute, silent loop, projected onto a two story glass box covered in lumisty, a film rendering the surface (and the projection) opaque and transparent both, depending on your vantage point. the films pull from hundreds of sources, including feature films, commercials, documentaries, print ads, and industrial films and evokes the motion and speed that are essential, yet absent, in the static motorcycles on display for the exhibition.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• motorcycle

[Imaketv20years]

Hope Hall this is Candace what's up what a blast we had on this!

[hopehall]

@Imaketv20years

candace, so great to hear from you! you made this piece, your collaboration and editing was central, and i have been so sad to be out of touch. will you send me an email and let me know how you're doing? you can write me through my website, xxhh

[videoapparatus]

did you help assemble these then for the exhibit?

[hopehall]

yes, i made this film as a double screen projection for the inaugural exhibition of the las vegas guggenheim...

[videoapparatus]

Cool, I'm glad you posted it. It was a fun exhibit. It's sad they closed the big box.

I worked on some of the architecture for it.

Jewel Box too. I forget, were there other projections

on the glass box? Or was it this same content?

[hopehall]

wow, did you happen to work with edwin chan? i worked most closely with him on it.

the glass box ended up as one of my favorite projection pieces. it was a triptych of highly mediated images from the double screen piece, projected onto that material whose name i forget...it changed the surface from translucent to transparent depending on your angle of view. and i agree, it's truly sad that the big box closed, after all the work, materials, hours, energy, ideas, and effort that went into it.

[Mango7]

Nice work! Too bad you didn't include the Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun" '85 Ninja or the '84 Ninja in the "Would I lie to you" Eurythmics music video.

[videoapparatus]

I corresponded with Edwin, met him on site once or twice. Michelle K. was a main contact from FOGA

[videoapparatus]

I worked for Stubbins (architect of record, NV). I helped with digital modeling of the steel structures. Got to administer the construction of Jewel Box museum and the motor cycle exhibit. I shot about four hours of construction video VHS. It is rough, I'd like to edit it some day.

There is one shot of Rem holding a painting up against the cor-ten for the first time.

Lumisty or Lumusty is the name of the polarizing film.

[videoapparatus]

Oh, just saw your narrative, sorry for the redundant question