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By Lorraine Cwelich Imagine a funhouse dreamscape of smeared clown mouths, martini-shaken with YouTube videos and a dash of Baudelaire, and you have a glimpse of the art of Ryan Trecartin.

An exhibition of Trecartin’s 2007–10 body SEARCH SPEAKEASY GO of work, “Any Ever,” opened this weekend and runs through October 17 at MOCA Pacific Design Center. Don't Miss [?] — Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York Ryan Trecartin Video artist/filmmaker Trecartin (by way of Roamie View – History Enhancement (Re’Search Ohio, Rhode Island School of Design, Wait’S) 2009-2010 Philadelphia, New Orleans and Miami) has HD video relocated to Los Angeles just as New York duration 28 min., 23 sec. gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch left Deitch Five Things WSJ House of the Film Clip: 'The Projects to become the new director for Department Stores Week: 'Beach House' Hobbit: The The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). Won't Tell You on the Hills Desolation of Smaug'

“Ryan Trecartin has invented a new cinematic language that corresponds to the way people experience the Internet,” Deitch said. About Speakeasy

In her 2006 story on up-and-coming artists, Wall Street Journal art reporter Kelly Crow singled out then-25-year-old Trecartin, who was the youngest artist chosen for that year’s Whitney Biennale and was deemed a “virtuoso” by the usually-reserved Getty Museum.

The installation of “Any Ever” consists of seven video screens over two floors of the Speakeasy is a blog covering media, Design Center. The downstairs half of the diptych is “Trill-ogy Comp” (consisting of entertainment, celebrity and the arts. The publication is produced by senior editor Christopher John Farley, Barbara “P.opular S.ky (section ish),” “K-CorealNC.K (Section A)” and “Sibling Topics (Section A),” Chai, Jonathan Welsh and Alexandra Cheney with all from 2009), while upstairs is the “Re’Search Wait’S” series (consisting of “Roamie View contributions from the Wall Street Journal staff and others. – History Enhancement (Re’Search Wait’S),” “The Re’Search (Re’Search Wait’S),” “Ready Write to us at [email protected] or follow us on Twitter at (Re’Search Wait’S)” and “Temp Stop (Re’Search Wait’S),” all shot in Miami in 2009-2010). @WSJSpeakeasy or individually at @cjfarley, @alexandracheney and @barbarachai. “Trill-ogy Comp” screens as a sequential program, while the four films of “Re’Search Wait’S” run simultaneously, so that the viewer “can curate and structure their own plot and Follow Speakeasy on Twitter themes, through the process of editorializing, by how long they stay in each space,” said Like Trecartin. Speakeasy on Facebook

Trecartin’s complex, non-linear narrative “movies” (his term) are impressionistic and intent

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on exploring the frontiers of new media. “When YouTube came around, it gave a better Popular Now What's This? understanding of how people are using technology differently now…so that the director is no longer just behind-the-camera but is also a part of the front-of-camera now. It’s easiest Ryan Says GOP to to think in terms of those teenage-bedroom YouTube videos. Make Debt-Ceiling Demands in Early '14 “But I think it’s bigger than that. It’s happening culturally in all forms of media and

technology. I don’t think there’s distinction between what’s ‘high’ or ‘low,’ anymore, what’s professional or amateur, all those dichtomies, they inhabit the same media space now.” 'Homeland' Season 3 One of Trecartin’s primary themes (and the reason he often accentuates mouths with Finale, 'The Star' TV clownish makeup) is his interest in “exploring language and how it is changing. Mouths are Recap a direct expression of an idea I’m trying to get across. I’m exploring all levels of a particular word – how it’s said and with what accent and what positioning within a

sentence and how a person’s face is moving and what kind of props they’re using with that word. It’s all communication. Media and technology are not separate from that anymore.” China's Moon Landing: Was It Worth It?

Trecartin writes, directs and edits his movies, which he calls “highly scripted, but it’s a very collaborative process. During a shoot no one really sees the script, so we go off on tangents…we always stay on track with the script, which acts as a structure.” ‘Tis the Season for a Rally As for whether he wants to someday make linear narrative films that are screened in movie theaters as well as galleries, Trecartin said, “I’m interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the

same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I’d like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream Five Quotes From the Talk Shows formulas.

“I would love for even the movies I made right now to be shown in movie theaters as well as museums. In the future, I think movies are going to be more of data sets that viewers Show 5 More have a hand in controlling — where the narrative originates and what happens to the content.”

Trecartin’s films can be viewed on Vimeo, Ubu and his YouTube channel. Articles Comments

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