Getaway, 1999

Single-channel video installation
Color, sound
02:40 min., loop

Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Exhibitions

re:LAX, DCKT Contemporary, [curated by Janelle Porter], New York, 2003 
Anywhere but Here, Artists’ Space, New York [curated by Janelle Porter], 2000 
Approach, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, 1999

Shot from the point of view of a passenger aircraft, Getaway begins with an aerial view of a generic industrial district and ends with a landing on the main runway at Los Angeles’s LAX airport. The video is presented on a small LCD screen in a plastic setting designed after a 1970s Pan Am airline tray—a relic from a time when passengers could fly in style.

Reviews

Shonagh Adelman, ‘Marco Brambilla, Henry Urbach Architecture’, frieze, March 2000
LA Weekly, February 25–March 2, 2000
Thad Ziolkowski, ‘Reviews: Marco Brambilla, Henry Urbach Architecture’, Artforum, January 2000