Hopiit

Victor Masayesva, Jr.

1982, 14:17 min, color, sound

In this lyrical work, Masayesva observes Hopi cultural activities through the cycle of the seasons. Work and play, ceremonial rituals and the rituals of everyday life throughout the year are woven together in a seamless vision that conveys the oral traditions of storytelling, the natural...

How Far Is There

Lawrence Weiner

1999, 17 min, color, sound

Human Design

Ilana Harris-Babou 

2019, 5:40 min, color, stereo, HD video

Extending Harris-Babou’s broader exploration of the language and empire of Restoration Hardware, Human Design follows the artist as colonial explorer and travel blogger traveling to Gorée Island in Senegal to unearth the “rare” artifacts on display in the furniture company’s New York showroom. The work was originally made for the 2019 Whitney Biennial, after Restoration Hardware constructed a new megastore a few blocks from the museum.

I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)

Joan Jonas

1976, 24:06 min, color, sound

Loss, displacement, time and memory permeate this haunting nonlinear narrative, which unfolds like a dream in the process of telling itself. Jonas is seen watching video images — shot in a New York studio and in rural Nova Scotia — that metaphorically relate to the dreams, reveries and memories...

I Was/I Am

Barbara Hammer

1973, 7 mins, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video

I, Popeye

Takeshi Murata

2010, 6:05 min, color, sound, HD video

I-Be Area

Ryan Trecartin

2007, 108 min, color, sound

Holland Cotter, writing in The New York Times, describes Trecartin's "sensationally anarchic" new video I-Be Area, in which the artist uses what Cotter terms "very basic digital tools to create a highly personal narrative art, almost a kind of folk art." He writes, "Like the work of John Waters and Jack Smith, his art is about just saying no to life as we think we have seen it and saying yes to zanier, virtual-utopian possibilities."

Identity

Anthony Ramos

1974, 12:34 min, b&w, sound

On the grounds of an opulent mansion in Los Angeles, Ramos staged a sequence of performances in which his naked body is positioned in sharp contrast to a setting of white marble pedestals, stairwells, and a pile of alabaster mannequin limbs, making a connection between divisions of race and class.

If I Just Turn and Run

Ellen Cantor

1998, 22:39 min, color, sound

Discovered after Cantor’s death in 2013, If I Just Turn and Run is an anomaly in Cantor’s body of work. Departing from her metatextual and appropriation-based practice, the video retains the bold, diaristic quality of her work, blurring boundaries between fiction and life.

If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION

Martha Rosler

1985, 16:31 min, color, sound

In a collusion of text and image, Rosler re-presents the NBC Nightly News and other broadcast reports to analyze their deceptive syntax and capture the confusion inserted intentionally into the news script. The artist questions the fallibility of electronic transmission by emphasizing the...