The LAB Gallery Presents: Project 101 by AMBruno from TheLABGallery
With the holiday season (too) fast approaching, time seems to just be whirling right by, offering no respite for the weary. But you might never have realized just how slow 101 seconds really are until you watch Kurt Johannessen’s video “Snail,” which depicts a snail moving ever so slowly across a white background for 101 seconds. “Snail” is one of 101 works, each 101 seconds long, that comprise “Project 101′: A Video Installation by AMBruno,” on view at the Roger Smith Hotel LAB Gallery through November 25. Running night and day, more than a dozen monitors and one large screen keep the works, longer than clips but less than shorts, made by forty-two multidisciplinary artists from the London-based collective AMBruno, continuously playing in the storefront gallery space at the corner of 47th St. & Lexington Ave. So if you’re one of the approximately twenty-five thousand people who pass by the Roger Smith every day, take a break and check out a bunch of these experimental silent videos, a project that was initiated by Sophie Loss and put together by Loss, John McDowall, Joanna Hill, Judy Goldhill, Claire Deniau, and Steve Perfect, all of whom have works in the show.