Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Press Release 2017/10/26+ Peter Burr
Art & Animation / A Screening of Works & Lecture by Peter Burr
November 11 (Saturday), 2017
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

THE MESS © Peter Burr

There is beauty, as well as something scary in the computer animations and installations of Brooklyn-born Peter
Burr who has attracted growing attention for work featured at SFMoMA, Documenta, White Chapel Gallery andother spaces. Viewers fly through dense landscapes that blink, shimmer and appear to breathe; maze-like worldsthat seem never ending and forever changing, where concepts such as morality, heroes and villains do not exist. At
the event, Burr will present five representative works and give a lecture and a post-screening talk.

Title: + Peter Burr Art & Animation / A Screening of Works & Lecture by Peter Burr
Venue: The Hall at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
4-7-25 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001 Tel: 03-3445-0651
E-mail: info@haramuseum.or.jp Website: http://www.haramuseum.or.jp
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/haramuseum (in Japanese only / account name: @haramuseum)Date: November 11 (Saturday), 2017
Schedule:
4:00 pm Venue door opens
4:30 pm Lecture
5:30 pm Screening
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm Post-screening talkTicket: General 2,500 yen, Students 2,200 yen (includes museum admission), Hara Museum members 1,500 yen
Works (total duration 70 minutes):
THE MESS (2016 / 14 minutes)
ALONE WITH THE MOON (2012 / 13 minutes)
SPECIAL EFFECT (2014 / 22 minutes)
RED:GREEN (2014 / 10 minutes)
PATTERN LANGUAGE (2017 / 10.5 minutes)*Some of the films include flashing lights.
*Door will be closed after the screening has started.
*Ticket-holders may view the exhibition on the day of the event. (11:00 am - 5:00 pm)
Interpreter: Nobuaki Doi (Researcher and critic on animation/founder of New Deer)
Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, ＋ (Plus)
Supported by: New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival (http://airport-anifes.jp/)
Directions to the museum: 5 minutes by taxi or 15 minutes on foot from JR Shinagawa Station (Takanawa exit); orfrom the same station take the No.96 bus, get off at the first stop (Gotenyama), and walk 3 minutes
For reservations, please call 03-3445-0651 or write to event@haramuseum.or.jp with your name, telephone
number, and the museum membership number if you are a member.

Peter Burr
Born in the US in 1980 and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University,
Peter Burr is a Brooklyn-based film audio visual artist working in
VR, video games, installation and performance. As thefounder of the video label Cartune Xpress, he has collaborated
with Porpentine and many others. His work has been widely
exhibited and screened within the US at such venues asMoMA PS1, Anthology F ilm Archives, Museum of the Moving
Image and Berkeley Art Center, and internationally at theCentre Pompidou in Paris; ICA Institute of Contemporary Artand White Chapel Gallery in London; the Institute of© Peter Burr
Modern Art in Brisbane; Korean F ilm Archive in Seoul andothers. Most recently he has participated in International
F ilm Festival Rotterdam and documenta 1 4 in Kasel, Germany and was part of the New Museum'sArtists' Vr app. In 2017, he came to Japan for the first time as an invited artist at the New Chitose
Airport International Animation Festival.

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