'The New Museum', 2008
1 channel video.
Computer animation, 5min DVD loop. Edition 5 + 3AP.
Dimensions variable

“Kurt Schwitters spoke of ‘crystalline palaces of socialism’; what if these places now exist but are instead.... objects of luxury.”
Gross.

The story:
In The New Museum Anthony Gross takes the idea of a building that is a precious jewel-like object constructed by exclusive patrons of society. Impoverished avatar artists are drafted in to clean and maintain this great glass icon. They notice with envy the lift going up to the excecutive party floor. A service elevator malfunctions: do they have the chance to finally go to
right to the top? Shall they crash the party? What horror do they discover instead?

Method:
Using a language of formally repeating loops and actions that Anthony Gross has developed over the last few years.
The New Museum goes further than previous works in constructing a conventional cinematic structure out of computer
animated fragments. By going more lo-fi in this caseGross is able to more quickly build up sequences and loops, pasting them together in a more expressionist manner. All the mistakes of rendering, mismatched polygons and awkward body
movements have been kept and embraced. The result is the creation of avatars that have anxious psychologies –
manic and obsessive.

Still from 'The New Museum', 2008: