Rene Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams

The term time-based art is ostensibly a well-known construct by this point, encompassing video, audio and performance work but not textiles or other objects. Yet Rene Green, whose complex installation art has long troubled easy oppositions such as public/ private, center/margin, and history/ fiction, complicates the idea of time-based art as well, recycling the otherwise static elements in her vibrant multimedia environments from year to year, thus mobilizing a more expansive notion of the time-based to situate her practice in history. Conceived for Green's 2010 exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, this volume appraises the intellectual complexity of Green's ever-evolving art.