Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Raphael Montañez Ortiz appropriates 16mm “newsreel” footage describing, as the title indicates, the game of golf. Whereas golfers are encouraged to sink a small white ball into a hole, the artist intervenes in the game, punching large holes directly into the film stock. The result presents bold, white circular voids in the image and asserts the artist’s presence.
- Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Raphael Montañez Ortiz, born New York City 1934
- Date
- 1957
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © 1957, Raphael Montañez Ortiz
- Medium
- 16mm film, black and white, sound; 01:59 minutes
- Type
- Media Arts
