"Off-Air" Australia

Ant Farm: Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Curtis Schreier, Douglas Hurr. 

1976, 20:59 min, b&w and color, sound

Role-playing and political performance were integral to Ant Farm's art-making strategies. In 1976 the group travelled to Australia as ironic "artists-in-residence," counter-cultural ambassadors. "Off-Air" Australia is a fragmented document of that trip, culled almost entirely from off-air footage of their television appearances, Australia media coverage of Ant Farm's events, and appropriated TV commercials.

Big Wrench

Chris Burden

1980, 15:12 min, color, sound

In this narrative performance for video, Burden tells the story of his relationship with a truck named "Big Job." To relate his autobiographical monologue, he sits deadpan before the camera with moving images of the truck behind him. Writes Burden, "During a six-month period, while the artist...

Museum Open House

Museum of Fine Arts Boston in association with WGBH-TV

1964, 29:02 min, b&w, sound

Russell Connor interviews Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the Boston Museum of Fine Art's exhibition of the work of Duchamp's brother, "Impressionist-Cubist" Jacques Villon (formerly Gaston Duchamp). Connor first introduces paintings, etchings, sculpture and lithographs by Villon, and is then...

Richard Prince: Editions

MICA-TV

1982, 6:47 min, color, sound

Carole Ann Klonarides writes: "The artist Richard Prince is known for re-photographing images from mass-produced magazines and newspaper advertisements. He is equally recognized for fictional writings based on imagined scenarios derived from his photographs. MICA-TV uses the idea of the magazine...

Synesthesia: Kim Gordon

Tony Oursler

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

Kim Gordon is bass player and vocalist for the experimental rock group Sonic Youth, a visual artist, and the founder of the clothing line X-girl. She has also played in the bands The Supreme Indifference, Free Kitten, and The Lucky Sperms. Her feminist lyrics, which address issues such as rape, eating disorders, and gender stereotypes, and her support of women musicians, have influenced a new generation of artists and musicians.