USA 1990, video, col, sound, 40:00 min
- realized by:
- Video Data Bank
- keywords:
- interview
portrait
- notes:
- Produced in stereo.
- cast&crew:
- appearance:
- Alfredo Jaar
- available copies:
- Video Data Bank:
- video, sound
- available for rent
- synopsis: Video Data Bank, Chicago
- Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. At age 7 he moved to Martinique where he lived for ten years. In 1972 he and his family returned to Chile. In 1974 Jaar began his education in Architecture; in 1978 in Film Studies. By 1981 he had received degrees in both fields. Feeling like an outsider in his native Chile, Jaar moved to New York to pursue his art career. He has lived there ever since. Jaar is a politically motivated artist whose work includes film, photography and installation. In his photographic installations, Alfredo Jaar offers a radical critique of the western conception of a world divided between the center (the west) and the periphery (all others). His work addresses issues of consumption and power on a global scale. An installation from 1986 in a New York subway station juxtaposed photographs of Brazil's impoverished gold miners with quotations of current gold prices, drawing an unexpected parallel between the material desires that motivate people in poverty stricken Brazil and affluent Manhattan
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