PLAYTIME
EAI OUTDOOR VIDEO SCREENING
on the ROOFTOP at X INITIATIVE
PLAYTIME
EAI OUTDOOR VIDEO SCREENING
on the ROOFTOP at X INITIATIVE
548 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
PLAYTIME
EAI OUTDOOR VIDEO SCREENING
on the ROOFTOP at X INITIATIVE
548 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
PLAYTIME
EAI OUTDOOR VIDEO SCREENING
on the ROOFTOP at X INITIATIVE
548 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
Works
21 Films, which actually contains 25 titles, is a compilation of 16mm and 8mm shorts assembled by the artist. In these works, Sherman combines the hallmarks of his "Spectacle" performances—metaphoric juxtapositions and visual puns—with a fluency in film grammar. Through exquisite storyboarding and montage, Sherman transforms the mundane into the magical, blithely manipulating colossal forms (landscapes, bridges, chili parlors, skyscrapers, rollercoasters, escalators, and airplanes) like weightless props.
Around the Park was a public art project commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservency in New York in autumn 2007. The video, which stars Wegman's canine cast enjoying a fall day in the park, was presented on four outdoor monitors near Madison Square Park's food kiosk.
Writes Kuchar: "Large and lumpy things chomp on chunks of matter made animate by techno-bipeds of the biosphere."
In this droll exercise, Baldessari repeatedly types the title phrase on a piece of paper. His deliberate action doesn't 'waste' his movements or time, and produces a perfect column of text. This apparently pointless goal raises questions about the status of the work of art: wasted labor or...
In Reel 1, Wegman creates deadpan one-liners and ironic sight gags from materials that include his own body, everyday objects such as balls and dolls, and his dog Man Ray. The humor derives from the wild incongruity of expected and actual behavior or events. Inanimate objects are personified;...
This hilarious compilation of Wegman's earliest works features a series of short, single-take anecdotes that introduce his idiosyncratic approach to video and humor. These technically raw-edged vignettes use understated means to create conceptual sight gags and absurdist one-liners. Wegman's deadpan spoken delivery of his monologues, and his ingenious use of everyday objects, subvert the viewer's expectations and transform the ordinary into the surreal.
In these witty performance pieces, Baldino constructs, deconstructs or reconstructs objects to subvert their meaning and function. The objects simultaneously are and are not the objects indicated by their name, incapable of fulfilling the function they are designed to perform.
In these witty performance pieces, Baldino constructs, deconstructs or reconstructs objects to subvert their meaning and function. The objects simultaneously are and are not the objects indicated by their name; they are incapable of fulfilling the function they are designed to perform.
In this work, EXPORT communicates with her fingers. Sign language, as an elision of word and gesture, is investigated. The artist writes: "The body as carrier of information, in order to convey both spiritual and physical contents, is the reflected image of the internal/psychological and of the external/institutional reality."
