Titles by John Baldessari
- Art Disaster
- Baldessari Sings LeWitt
- Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios
- Ed Henderson Suggests Sound Tracks for Photographs
- Folding Hat
- Four Minutes of Trying to Tune Two Glasses (For the Phil Glass Sextet)
- Four Short Films 1972-1973
- Haste Makes Waste
- How We Do Art Now
- I Am Making Art
- I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
- Inventory
- Police Drawing
- Practice Makes Perfect
- Script
- Six Colorful Inside Jobs
- Six Colorful Tales: From the Emotional Spectrum (Women)
- Some Words I Mispronounce
- Teaching a Plant the Alphabet
- The Italian Tape
- The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson
- The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales
- Three Feathers and Other Fairy Tales
- Title
- Two Colorful Melodies
- Walking Forward-Running Past
- Xylophone
Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios
John Baldessari introduces Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios at EAI on Saturday, November 20, 2010.
Demonstrating how pop cultural narratives are embedded in the American collective unconscious, Baldessari introduces his sometime collaborator Ed Henderson, who is called upon to interpret a series of movie stills. The blurred photographs, which are virtually indecipherable to the viewer, act as springboards for a series of self-contained narratives. The ease and humor with which Henderson improvises these scenarios (spanning Hollywood cliches from musicals and Westerns to a prison drama and a horror film) demonstrate the extent to which the mythic language of cinematic genres has permeated the American consciousness. Baldessari has commented on his attraction to pop cultural material: "I guess I'm using images from movies, from newspapers and so on, because... we have to talk in a language we know."
