Adam Lampton: Museums

Using the physical structure of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and MASS MoCA as starting points, Adam Lampton is interested in how the specific architecture of these museums relates to the geography around them. In both of the short videos presented in Screen, he suggests alternate lives for these spaces. In CMCA in Three Alternative Landscapes, Lampton questions how the landscape influences one’s understanding of the museum. Is there anything that is supremely important to the mission of the museum in being a building in Rockland, Maine? Similarly, in Give Me a Place to Stand, he wonders how the history of North Adams frames one’s experience of MASS MoCA. In both these pieces, he approaches the making of the video as a still photograph over time, not so much interested in a cinematic approach to story telling, but a visual approach that allows for a slow unfolding of the image.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.