In 1971, while studying at Antioch College, artist and filmmaker Bill Brand created a custom device to transform the cinema into a 360-degree experience. A custom turntable swings and rotates a 16mm film around a circular ring of screens.
The film features a ping pong game captured by a camera set on the same device that slowly circles the players. The result is an activated audience experience that inverts the spaces of cinema and reveals the circular nature of film itself. In 1972, this project came to Western College for Women in Sawyer Gymnasium.
This spring, Brand returns to Oxford for the fourth restaging of this important artwork, in conjunction with the exhibition Rooted Here: Networks of Modern and Contemporary Art. Pong Ping Pong will then tour to Columbus and Pittsburgh!
Artist's Talk and Reception and to follow in Peabody 121
This performance is arranged in conjunction with the exhibition Rooted Here: Networks of Modern and Contemporary Art and is generously supported by The Western Center for Social Impact and Innovation; The Department of Art; The Department of Media, Journalism, and Film; The Humanities Center; and The Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum.
