Electronic Arts Intermix: Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler

Overview

Tony Oursler's video and multimedia works take the form of a low-tech, expressionistic theater that is singular in contemporary art. Willfully primitive, often grotesque, and crafted with an ingenious handmade sensibility, his psychodramatic landscapes are fabricated within the ironic vernacular of pop culture. His idiosyncratic fictions are bizarre narrative odysseys through psychosexual delirium and the detritus and artifacts of mass culture.

Titles

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Life of Phillis

1979, 55:23 min, b&w, sound

Tony Oursler: Selected Works

1979, 34:20 min, b&w and color, sound

Life

1979, 9:17 min, b&w, sound

Diamond (Head)

1979, 13:52 min, b&w, sound

Good Things and Bad Things

1979, 11:51 min, b&w and color, sound

The Loner

1980, 29:56 min, color, sound

The Weak Bullet

1980, 12:41 min, color, sound

Grand Mal

1981, 22:36 min, color, sound

Son of Oil

1982, 16:08 min, color, sound

Spinout

1983, 16:02 min, color, sound

EVOL

1984, 28:58 min, color, sound

Diamond: The 8 Lights (Spheres of Influence)

1985, 53:47 min, color, sound

Sucker

1987, 5:33 min, color, sound

Joyride (TM)

1988, 14:23 min, color, sound

ONOUROWN

1990, 45:40 min, color, sound

Tunic (Song for Karen)

1990, 6:17 min, color, sound

Kepone

1991, 11:05 min, color, sound

Model Release, Par-Schizoid-Position, and Test

1992, 11:44 min, color, sound

Model Release

1992, 3:24 min, color, sound

Par-Schizoid-Position

1992, 2:53 min, color, sound

Test

1992, 5:23 min, color, sound

Toxic Detox

1992, 32 min, color, sound

Want

1994, 5:58 min, color, sound

Pole Dance, 1997

1997, 31:18 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Alan Vega

1997-2001, 55:40 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Arto Lindsay

1997-2001, 51:20 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Dan Graham

1997-2001, 36:47 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: David Byrne

1997-2001, 70 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Genesis P-Orridge

1997-2001, 90:29 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Glenn Branca

1997-2001, 37 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: John Cale

1997-2001, 69 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Kim Gordon

1997-2001, 20:15 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Laurie Anderson

1997-2001, 47:07 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Lydia Lunch

1997-2001, 25:57 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Thurston Moore

1997-2001, 30 min, color, sound

Synesthesia: Tony Conrad

1997-2001, 45:19 min, color, sound

Fantastic Prayers

1999, CD-ROM

Off

1999, 60 min, color, sound

Pop

1999, 3:28 min, color, sound

Empty

2000, 4:22 min, color, sound

9/11

2001, 57:51 min, color, sound

Sound Digressions in Seven Colors

2006, 12:59 min, color, sound

AWGTHTGTWTA

2008, 6:22 min, color, sound

See also

Mike Kelley

Mayami: Between Cut and Action

Tony Labat

1986, 13:54 min, color, sound

Pole Dance, 1997

Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Anita Pace

1997, 31:18 min, color, sound