H BOX, a roaming collapsable video art screening room, is making its United States premiere at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA. Designed by Portuguese artist and architect Didier Fiuza Faustino, this traveling video gallery has been all over the world showcasing commissioned work by emerging artists. H BOX’s first premiere ever was in Paris, France at the Pompidou Centre and since then it has shown artists’ work in Spain, Luxembourg, London, and Yokohama, Japan.
H BOX will be at OCMA until September 6, 2009 and will be showing work by ten international artists:
Alice Anderson-United Kingdom
Yael Bartana-Israel
Matthew Buckingham-United States
Sebastián Diaz-Morales-Argentina
Cliff Evans-USA
Kota Ezawa-Germany
Cao Fei-China
Dora García-Spain
Shahryar Nashat-Switzerland
Su-Mei Tse-Luxembourg
Still from Kota Ezawa's "Diorama", 2008
Still from Yael Bartana's "Wild Seeds", 2005
Still from Cliff Evan's "Citizen: The Wolf and Nanny", 2009
The top picture makes it look like a toy/diorama. Like it’s a viewfinder you could strap onto your head. How cool would THAT be??