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Schneemann's performance-lecture Pinea Silva was first presented in December 2011 as part of EAI's 40th Anniversary Benefit. Aided by a PowerPoint presentation of images culled from the Internet, the artist analyzes traditional Christmas imagery with an eye toward the psycho-sexual, positing a re-writing of traditional symbols in which the Christmas tree is understood as vulvic. Deploying humor in her delivery, slides and props, Schneemann uses the performance-lecture as a distinctive forum for questioning the relationships of gender, sexuality, power and culture.
Pinochet Porn
Ellen Cantor
2008-16, 123 min, b&w and color, sound, Super 8mm film on HD video, English and Spanish with English subtitles
An epic experimental film, Pinochet Porn, embodies – though a dizzying array of stories and narrative methods – the multifaceted work of artist Ellen Cantor. Using her 2004 series of eighty-two drawings, Circus Lives from Hell, as an unconventional “script,” Cantor worked on Pinochet Porn, her most ambitious project, for the last five years of her life. The feature-length, episodic narrative, about the intertwined lives of five children and their maturation into adulthood, would be completed posthumously by her close collaborators – including her cast and crew – according to her directives.
Traveling mattes of the artist's torso, limbs, and extremities in Puget Sound, Yosemite and the Yucatan. Her attempt to "touch" nature is removed and blocked between figure and ground setups by the optical printer's flatness of planes.
Writes Jenkins: "This video takes the 'Planet X' myth and interfaces it with the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, LA, based upon their similar natural disaster principles. With a proclamation of prophecy spoken by avant garde jazz musician, Sun Ra, predicting a coming disaster to African-Americans."
In this harrowing performance, Ramos and the artist Lowell Darling are blindfolded, their hands and feet bound, and sealed into body-sized plastic bags. Over the course of 20 minutes, the men struggle to escape from the clear plastic bags. The real-time performance creates a palpable tension as the men writhe inside the bags. Ramos performed this piece at Cal Arts, shortly after he had been released from federal prison, where he had served 18 months for draft resistance during the Vietnam War.
Play or ‘Yes,’ ‘Yes,’ ‘Yes’
Barbara Hammer
1970, 11:16 min, b&w and color, silent, Super 8mm film on video
"Plowmans Lunch is called a documentary because its intent was to explore actual occurrence, be it the building of the work, or what befalls the players. Cartoon-like framing and intense color give the film a composed, painterly quality. The story is about emigration — A loose group of individuals consisting of young and old people, intellectuals and workers (blue and white collar), and a transvestite/hermaphrodite attempt to leave where they are and go, simply, somewhere else. They are a microculture and their machinations are revealed in highly stylized vignettes which are almost stories unto themselves and are strung throughout the film like a fisherman's buoys."
The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a streaming montage of disruptive permutations: 8 mm is printed as 16 mm, moving images freeze, frames recur and dissolve until the film bursts into flames,...
For 40 years, Muntadas and Marshall Reese have been compiling a video history of presidential campaign spots that follows the evolution of broadcast political advertising from its beginnings in 1952 to the present. This fascinating anthology, now updated to include ads from the 2024 presidential...
Channel surfing between the TV show American Pickers and the movie Pollock.
