Video Marathon

Initiated in 1999, Art in General’s Annual Video Marathon is a program that presents video art through screenings or exhibitions organized primarily by guest curators. While Art in General had a prior history of showing video art regularly, this program was initiated considering video as a prevalent (and now definitively common) mode of artistic production. Video’s accessible distribution channels and its relatively inexpensive shipping cots also facilitate the process of exhibition and allow us to easily show art works by artists working from abroad. The program is considered a “marathon” because of its experientially intensive and content-wise extensive exhibition formats; sometimes presented as 12 hours of consecutive and varied video screenings, and most recently as one or multiple exhibitions with a plethora of video works or programs series shown concurrently. In any case, the Annual Video Marathon always offers an exciting environment for artists and audiences to experience video art today.