Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux), Isaac Julien; Bick Productions; New Museum of Contemporary Art

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Isaac Julien, artist
born 1960
Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux), 2003
Portfolio/Series title: Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, 2004
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2005.0007.07
Not on display
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Label Aug-2009: This short DVD was produced as part of a collaborative series featuring eleven of the most acclaimed artists currently working in video, film and digital media. The series was produced under the auspices of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and each DVD included not only an original piece, but an extensive interview with the artist as well as stills from his or her oeuvre. In his contribution to the series, Isaac Julien has revisited his 2002 work, Paradise Omeros, which originally debuted as part of Documenta XI, an immense, one hundred day program of installations and performances in Kassel, Germany. Like its predecessor, Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux) deals with the fate of the African Diaspora and its attempts to establish roots in the New World; the film features Derek Walcott, a poet and Nobel laureate whose work is integrally linked to these themes.