Neil Goldberg, Wind Tunnel, 2012
Neil Goldberg
Wind Tunnel, 2012
Single channel video installation
39:00 min
Silent
Neil Goldberg’s Wind Tunnel is an intimate portrait of the New York City subway system capturing the movement of people’s hair thrown by the powerful blast of air that precedes an oncoming train. Goldberg creates quietly intense videos of the often overlooked everyday actions of New Yorkers. Repeated and looped, these actions gain a poignancy that Goldberg has come to be known for.
“I love being in the subway. Not always, of course, but a lot of the time. I find it very comforting down there — I feel very tucked in. I like that your choices are limited. Above ground, you’re constantly making lots of decisions, but in the subway, it’s either uptown or downtown, express or local. You don’t get to choose the stops. And I like that the doors open for you, unlike in some European countries where you have to open them yourself. Also, it’s a public space in which people are usually very inwardly focused. They’re having these highly internal experiences in the presence of others, which I find fascinating and rich. Also, I think it’s interesting that your time in the subway is somehow not supposed to count. You’re en route from some place that counts to another place that counts. And I like seeing what people do with that type of time.”
His work was the subject of recent surveys at the Museum of the City of New York and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; The Hammer Museum; The Kitchen; The Pacific Film Archive; NGBK Kunsthalle Berlin and El Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, among others. He teaches at the Yale School of Art, Parsons The New School, and at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has served as a visiting artist at Cooper Union, The School of Visual Arts, New York University, the Rhode Island School of Design, the MIT Media Lab, and UCLA, among others. He has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Experimental Television Center, Harpo Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, Stillpoint Fund, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.
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