Outtakes presents a series of artworks, all picturing alternative views of everyday life, installed throughout CMOA’s permanent collection galleries of modern and contemporary art. Beginning with the “outtake,” a filmed or recorded scene not included in the final version, the exhibition brings together important photographic and film works by 2013 Carnegie International artists not included in that exhibition. Outtakes unfolds in three distinct installations.

Alternative (or altered) consciousness is probed in Rodney Graham’s film installation Photokinetoscope, depicting his psychedelic ride through an idyllic Berlin park. Photographic series by Joel Sternfeld and Zoe Strauss show alternative views of American landscapes, culture, and the lives lived at its margins. And Pierre Leguillon’s immersive Arbus Bonus offers a wide-ranging take on American popular culture through rarely seen magazine work of seminal American photographer Diane Arbus.

Graham, Leguillon, Sternfeld, and Strauss use film and photography to redefine the artist’s relationship to their subject and surroundings and in doing so they reframe our experience of the world.

This exhibition is organized by Dan Byers, 2013 Carnegie International co-curator and Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.