Christian Anthony :
And Everythng In Between

January 10 - March 13, 2006

From January 10 through March 13, 2006, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art ( ICA) will showcase And Everything In Between, a video montage by Christian Anthony in the gallery’s First Street window. And Everything In Between is part of the ICA’s installation series “Night Moves,” providing after-dark programming in the gallery’s front and rear windows, giving the ICA a nighttime presence while animating the downtown cultural landscape.

In his video short, Christian Anthony has appropriated film and television clips creating a collage of images and scenes describing the afterlife. These fragments, taken from the last several decades, emphasize the tension between the media-driven, pop culture representations of heaven, hell and purgatory and people’s personal perceptions of these concepts. Anthony’s portrait of the collective afterlife is at times comic, violent and wicked as it tosses up stereotypes, self-righteousness and fear.

Image: Christian Anthony, montage from And Everything In Between, video, 15 minutes