Join artist Sarah Sze as she talks about her first work to incorporate video in the Guggenheim’s collection.

Transcript
Sarah Sze: "Media Lab" was made in the ’90s, and it was the first video I’d ever done with sculpture and mixed the two. And it was shown in 1997 in Manifesta, in Luxembourg. And it was showed in their media lab, so that’s why it’s called "Media Lab".

The idea was it had all of its own self-supporting life systems to it. So, you know, fans, it creates its own wind, create its own, you know, water systems. It lights itself. It doesn’t use outside lights.

This piece, interestingly, from the ’90s has, you know, old film rolls in it. It has slides. That piece was made on Betamaxes—you know, the size of a large hardcover book or almost an encyclopedia. That’s the size of the tapes that we made that on. So those videos are the hardest thing to preserve in the piece, and they’ve been transferred into entirely different media.

It is actually hidden in the freight elevator. And the freight elevator becomes part of the museum. And you’re seeing sort of behind the scenes and behind the theater. And it draws the audience into a place that they would never expect to see something.

The whole piece is on a dolly—so this idea that it’s portable: You can move it. It could roll. That it is a vagabond. All of these ideas are kind of ideas about making work feel less monumental. That it could move, that it could be anywhere, that it becomes site specific wherever it went.

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