About the Exhibition
Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland) creates a series of videos for the NBC Astrovision by Panasonic board, overlooking Times Square’s infamous traffic jams, high-tech screens, and billboards. Open My Glade, Rist’s first public art project in New York City, is composed of 16 one-minute video segments that are interspersed with NBC and Panasonic programming at a quarter past the hour, every hour, from 9:15 am to 12:15 am. Rist’s videos, presented amid the backdrop of media-frenzied Times Square, appear to be in slow motion. These videos relay poetic, philosophical, and political statements through close-ups, flying camera work, and intense colors.