21.12.22 - Amie Siegel’s 'The Architects' now screening online - MoMA Video Views
The online presentation features a conversation between the artist and Giuliana Bruno, the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Amie Siegel’s film installations explore architecture and design to reveal the hidden mechanics behind the circulation of capital and the production of power and value. Following the gradual arc of a workday from morning to dusk, The Architects traverses the offices of ten architectural firms across New York City. As the film unfolds seamlessly through a series of slow, parallel tracking shots, the camera’s unrelenting gaze peers into the working environments of intimate studios as well as major multinational firms. It reveals a complex network of invisible labour, uncovering patterns of behaviour organised around the screens over which the office workers huddle. These employees are framed by the spaces we encounter onscreen; in turn, their labour is shaping the global built environment.
This edition of Video Views is introduced by Stuart Comer, Chief Curator of Media and Performance, and coincides with the final weeks of The Museum of Modern Art's presentation of The Architects in The Philip Johnson Galleries, 16 September 2022 - 2 January 2023.
The online presentation features a conversation between the artist and Giuliana Bruno, the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Amie Siegel’s film installations explore architecture and design to reveal the hidden mechanics behind the circulation of capital and the production of power and value. Following the gradual arc of a workday from morning to dusk, The Architects traverses the offices of ten architectural firms across New York City. As the film unfolds seamlessly through a series of slow, parallel tracking shots, the camera’s unrelenting gaze peers into the working environments of intimate studios as well as major multinational firms. It reveals a complex network of invisible labour, uncovering patterns of behaviour organised around the screens over which the office workers huddle. These employees are framed by the spaces we encounter onscreen; in turn, their labour is shaping the global built environment.
Amie Siegel, The Architects (2014)
Video Views, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
21 December 2022 - 4 January 2023
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Amie Siegel, 'The Architects' (2014), The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Until 2 January 2023
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Video Views, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
21 December 2022 - 4 January 2023
Watch online
Amie Siegel, 'The Architects' (2014), The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Until 2 January 2023
Further information