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There Is Nothing Underneath the West Virginia Wing
Frank Heath
2018, 16:37 min, color, sound, HD video
There Is Nothing Underneath the West Virginia Wing takes us to the Project Greek Island bunker – a vast and elaborate underground bomb shelter that was designed to house members of Congress in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. Now declassified and open for public tours, the bunker was covertly maintained for 30 years in a state of readiness beneath the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The video focuses on the eerie spaces of the vacant shelter and its remarkable blast doors which were engineered by the Mosler Vault Company whose bank vaults famously survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima.
Seinfeld super-cut of all scenes dealing with Kramer's coffee table book about coffee tables.
This early tape is a version of Computer Graphics #1, one of Emshwiller's very first video works. Black-and-white drawings by Emshwiller were animated and colorized with the assistance of Walter Wright and Richard Froman at Dolphin Computer Image Corporation. The sound score was made on Moog...
Kalin writes: "They are lost to vision altogether acts as erotic retaliation on legislation such as the Supreme Court sodomy ruling — declaring the private bedroom as open target for the State — or the Helms Amendment — the U.S government's refusal to fund explicit AIDS prevention information for...
Velez writes: "This and That is a road movie about forgetting — and being forgotten. Shot over a period of six years while traveling through France, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, and Puerto Rico, it is a document of failed loves, death and how neither vengeance nor pardon can modify the past."
A documentation of a 1977 performance at Artists Space (NYC), This Is My Blue Period is a surreal monologue featuring four of the artist's poems. At once incantation, song, and internal monologue, here Heyward performs multiple layers of narrative and semantic meaning that suggest the mutability and slippage of language.
In a project sponsored by the Public Art Fund, Muntadas installed the fifty-second message This is not an Advertisement on the electronic Spectacolor lightboard that then dominated New York's Times Square. Every twenty minutes, between commercial advertisements, the sign broadcast the text: "This...
This Unremarkable Life presents an unsettling array of characters welded together by language and contained within a world that collides “trash television” with contemporary internet culture. The hostess is played by the artist in a blond wig reminiscent of Christian dieting influencer Gwen Shamblin Lara. Her monologue, the driving narrative force of the work, appropriates heavily altered transcriptions from an episode of the American television show Hoarders (2009 - present) about a man addicted to keeping pet rats. As the hostess continues her speech, more characters constructed from American mass media tropes abduct the narrative. A motivational speaker for men, a beauty queen having a birthday party, a man with a home security camera strapped to his head, and an array of similarly absurd figures join in a frenetic and urgent call to examine what it looks like to adapt media personalities for personal satisfaction.
In these early film exercises, Acconci exhibits an almost childlike vulnerability that is at once comic and oddly affecting. In Blindfold Catching, a blindfolded Acconci reacts, flinching and lunging, as rubber balls are repeatedly thrown at him from off-screen. In Soap & Eyes, he tries to keep his eyes open after dousing his face with soapsuds, resulting in a tragicomic clown face. In Hand and Mouth, he repeatedly forces his fist into his mouth until he gags.
Three Moons refers to the three seasons—summer, spring, fall—spanned during the project’s creation, and accompanying phases of land-care across this timeframe. The video was shot using a temporospatial camera with no viewfinder, custom-made for LoVid by long time collaborator Douglas Repetto. LoVid’s unpredictable, experimental approach presents frenetic movement collaged from overlaid images of friends and neighbors who are gardeners, environmental activists, and land caretakers, and the ecological surroundings of the artists’ home in Long Island, NY. The footage is set to a free improvised soundtrack by musician Greg Kelley.
