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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.
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.
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...
A compilation of Schneemann's anti-Vietnam War group performances, this work merges film projection, sound and slide systems, light beams, audience and performer action in a sensory collage linking the exposed Illinois landscape to the devastation in Vietnam. Writes Schneemann: "I think of this...
The spontaneity of improvisational jazz is captured in this series of video music performances created on the Beck Direct Synthesizer. Featuring "live" improvisations with musician Warner Jepson, Beck's "jazz video" evokes musical forms and their visual abstractions.
Tony Conrad writes: "A trisection of the spectators' power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are installed as valences of the artist’s license, revealed as figures of parental authority."
Part of Gillette's series for Classical Video — tapes designed to act as non-literal, visual interpretations of classical music — In the Creeks is a lush, contemplative study of the natural microcosm of a creek in summer, transformed into an almost abstract, formalist microcosm. The dichotomy...
Initially created as an editing exercise for his students at UCSD, Jenkins’ Inconsequential Doggereal mixes poetic narrative fragments of self-shot footage with moments ripped from the unending flow of TV news, advertising, and entertainment. The images and sounds of mainstream television are...
