Evil.9: (mmmfs) Fundamental Changes

Tony Cokes

2004, 3:22 min, color, sound

Evil.9 combines an Internet-circulated hip-hop music video by the Canadian-German artist Mocky with an Associated Press text outlining the effect of the U.S.A. Patriot Act on the basic rights of U.S. citizens. Cokes writes: "Our unwillingness to confront the implications of our acts and the consequences of our history represent failures to take responsibility."

How to Curate Your Own Group Exhibition

Michael Smith

1996, 2:55 min, color, sound

Commissioned for Hans-Ulrich Obrist's "Museum-in-Progress" series Do It, Smith's How to Curate Your Own Group Exhibition is a deadpan infomercial explaining exactly what the beginning curator needs to know. Television professionals shot and edited the piece, yielding a flashy "spot" in which...

Summer, 1993

Robert Beck 

1994, 7 min, color, sound

Robert Buck writes: "Opening with an excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke’s 'The Second Elegy' and set to Sade’s 'Kiss of Life,' the works manifestly romantic content is inseparable from the 8mm film on which it was shot. Again in my art, material precipitates meaning, and the semblant quality of the work and the idyll it captures can be felt."