Dara Birnbaum's provocative video works are influential and innovative contributions to the contemporary discourse on art and television. In her videotapes and multi-media installations, Birnbaum applies both low-end and high-end video technology to subvert, critique or deconstruct the power of mass media images and gestures to define mythologies of culture, history and memory.
1975, 41:12 min, b&w, sound
Chaired Anxieties: Abandoned
1975, 5:15 min, b&w, silent
Chaired Anxieties: Slewed
1975, 13:06 min, b&w, sound
Chaired Anxieties Addendum: Autism
1975, 7:20 min, b&w, sound
Mirroring
1975, 6:01 min, b&w, silent
Control Piece
1975, 5:55 min, b&w, silent
Bar(red)
1975, 3:30 min, b&w, sound
1976, 10:57 min, b&w, sound
1976, 11:30 min, b&w, sound
1976, 9:52 min, b&w, sound
1978-79, 5:50 min, color, sound
1979, 6:50 min, color, sound
1980, 9 min, color, sound
General Hospital/Olympic Women Speed
Skating
1980, 6 min, color, sound
Kojak/Wang
1980, 3 min, color, sound
1980, 4:18 min, color, sound
1981, 5:41 min, color, sound
1982, 3:13 min, color, sound
1982, 4:09 min, color, sound
1983-87, 22:18 min, color, sound
Damnation of Faust: Evocation
1983, 10:02 min, color, sound
Damnation of Faust: Will-o'-the-Wisp (A Deceitful Goal)
1985, 5:46 min, color, sound
Damnation of Faust: Charming Landscape
1987, 6:30 min, color, sound
1987, 30 sec, color, sound
1990, 10 min, color, sound
1992, 60 sec, color, sound
1992, 24 min, color, sound
A Tale of Two Cities
1992, 1 min, color, sound
ahistory
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Amnesia
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Blown Up
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Circular Rites
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Europe Feed Back Day
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Fire! The Memory
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Happy New Order
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Jamais l'un sans l'autre (Never one without the other)
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Nation
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Paradigm Shift
1992, 1 min, color, sound
TRANSVOICES: transgressions
1992, 60 sec, color, sound
Two Faces of One Room
1992, 1 min, color, sound
Wanderers Nightsong
1992, 60 sec, color, sound
See also
1986, 53:40 min, color, sound