XANADU
- mimeticart
- Dec 20, 2025
- 1 min read
February 6 - March 20, 2026
4-channel video installation as part of:
Variety Arts Theater
Los Angeles, CA
What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem is a sweeping odyssey into the depths of human experience, unfolding through film and video. Marking the first major presentation of works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Los Angeles, the exhibition experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes — silent cinema and contemporary moving image art, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling.
Bringing one of the world’s leading collections of time-based art to a city defined by moving images sparks a rare conversation across disciplines. The project dissolves the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, highlighting both the universality of human concerns and the shifting perspectives that shape their representation.
Curated by Udo Kittelmann
Artist List: Marina Abramović, Doug Aitken, Kader Attia, Dara Birnbaum, Monica Bonvicini, Robert Boyd, Chris Burden, Paul Chan, Thomas Demand, Maya Deren, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Anne Imhof, Arthur Jafa, Ulysses Jenkins, Jesper Just, Sigalit Landau, Mark Leckey, Klara Lidén, Paul McCarthy, Alex McQuilkin, Ana Mendieta, Precious Okoyomon, Jon Rafman, Bunny Rogers, Jacolby Satterwhite, Christoph Schlingensief, Jeremy Shaw, P. Staff, Sturtevant, Wolfgang Tillmans, Wu Tsang, Ant Farm & T.R. Uthco, Jordan Wolfson, Lu Yang.
Robert Boyd, Xanadu, 2006. 4-channel video installation, 28min.
