Just Do It

Another Tomorrow

by Kathryn Lipman

Opening reception Fri., Nov. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m., runs through Dec. 3, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St., 215-701-4627, slought.org

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Aware of television's tendency to encourage passive consumption, the video artists in "Another Tomorrow" emphasize the possibilities of film with surprising simplicity. In Erwin Wurm's Memory (pictured), the artist stands in boxer shorts and socks, pouring liquid sideways. "He engages in these small exercises that seem impossible, but it's precisely on that account that they create incredulity in the viewer," says Aaron Levy, executive director of the Slought Foundation.

Slought brought the work from the Neue Galerie Graz in Austria to highlight the youngest video artists in Europe as well as the institution's role in incubating emerging artists. Intentionally, the work featured is not distinctly Austrian, although most of the pieces are playfully provocative. In Pressure on the Balls, Franz Kapfer wears what looks like an enormous black strap-on, but is recognizable to an Austrian as a doorstop.

For the exhibit, the Slought building, a former bank with a functional vault, will be transformed into a dark, cinematic space, and the videos will be screened at individual stations by monitor or projection.

The curator, Günther Holler-Schuster, and Christa Steinle, director of the Neue Galerie, will both speak at the opening.