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Fundamental Motions: Recent Titles in Distribution
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
264 Canal Street #3W
New York, NY 10013
December 11th, 2025
7:00 pm ET
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Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) presents a selection of works recently added to our distribution catalogue by Michael Bell-Smith and Sara Magenheimer, Zoe Beloff, Michael Smith, and Sophie Breer with David Wojnarowicz. The evening takes its title from Zoe Beloff’s The Infernal Dream (2011), which invokes Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s time-motion studies aimed at maximizing workplace efficiency.
In this program, artists subvert systems of bodily control. Utilizing a range of ubiquitous communication formats including childrens’ television shows, Zoom calls, and industrial films, they highlight the absurdity of bureaucracy and technological optimization. Beloff’s single-channel piece—adapted from the artist’s 2011 installation, The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff—reanimates two midcentury industrial films focused on maximizing productivity in the workplace through the visual language of slapstick, envisioning how metaphysically unruly objects can subvert capitalism's ideal of seamless labor protocols. Bell-Smith and Magenheimer's Acetone Reality (2025) uses computer-generated voices, animations, and found images to present a cascading meditation on the nature of meaning making. Breer’s Waje’s Cockabunnies (1981) showcases Wojnarowicz’s “cock-a-bunnies,” live cockroaches adorned with paper bunny ears and cotton tails, through the instructional format of the classic children’s television show Romper Room. Smith’s Zoom Room (2022) depicts Mike Smith, the artist’s Everyman alter-ego, as he attempts to lead a Zoom meeting with his less-than-enthusiastic staff.
An informal conversation with Beloff will follow the screening.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)’s venue is located at 264 Canal Street, 3W, near several Canal Street subway stations. Our floor is accessible by elevator (63" × 60" car, 31" door) and stairway. Due to the age and other characteristics of the building, our bathrooms are not ADA-accessible, though several such bathrooms are located nearby. If you have questions about access, please contact cstrange@eai.org in advance of the event.
An Evening with Trevor Shimizu (Online)
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
trevorshimizu.eai.org
December 1st to December 14th, 2025
This online presentation of videos by Trevor Shimizu stems from the artist’s 2013 video series, The Lonely Loser Trilogy. On October 2, 2025, EAI invited the artist to transform our office into a dynamic environment for video and socializing. The event was held in tandem with Shimizu’s solo painting exhibition and EAI’s residency at 47 Canal, which featured videos from Paul McCarthy, Carolee Schneemann, and Bruce Nauman, selected by the artist. This showcase will be available starting Monday, November 24, through December 7.
Shimizu presented a selection of short videos including his 2013 piece, The Lonely Loser Trilogy: Skate Videos. Shimizu frames the compilation through his evolving sense of physicality as an artist, skater, and eventually, parent. He contrasts the sedentary lifestyle of his younger years—including his tenure as Technical Director for EAI—with the balance, poise, and athleticism of inspirational figures including Nauman and the skateboarder Jerry Hsu. Clips showcasing Shimizu’s musical collaborations with Cass McCombs, re-recorded skate videos and advertisements for skating equipment, and Shimizu’s Google Glass footage highlight the fluid relationship between being a viewer and maker of art.
From Shimizu: “Sometime around 2003-2004, I recorded and toured with Cass McCombs. We recorded an album called PREfection. A few songs were used in some great skate videos. I was completely unaware of skateboarding at the time, having stopped about 10 years before. I came across Jerry Hsu’s part which features a song from the album and I was just completely blown away. Sometime around 2013, I bought the DVD on eBay, played it off a CRT monitor and used a 4K camera to record. I used to say that this was my greatest life achievement before getting married and having children.
While watching daytime television, I saw an advertisement for a remote controlled cylinder going around some obstacles at a skatepark. This came out around the time Google Glass came out. So I used the Google glasses to record my skate video browsing. I was thinking of skating more frequently again and saw these videos by the Welcome Skateboards team. They were really amazing and inventive, but also made me feel so old and as if I were Encino Man, waking up to the new world of skateboarding.
I remembered Mark Gonzalez from when I was a child and saw this clip of him skating many years later. After our daughter was born, I saw him as a role model—great skater, artist, and dad.”
Image: Music credits from Bag of Suck (2006) by Enjoi Skateboards.
