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EAI Benefit Art Auction

PPOW + EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th + 6th floor
Thursday, April 19th

Works

Blessed Avenue
Jacolby Satterwhite
2018, 19:19 min, color, sound, HD video

Blessed Avenue is a tribute to the artist’s late mother. Songs she recorded on cassette tape and her drawings for a fantasy QVC line of domestic products are catalysts for a clubby, S&M-themed Hieronymus Bosch-inspired music video performed by Satterwhite, Juliana Huxtable, Lourdes Leon Ciccone...

CRWDSPCR
Charles Atlas, Merce Cunningham
2008, 29:37 min, color, sound

Atlas records a late-2000's revival performance of the 1993 dance CRWDSPCR, which Merce Cunningham choreographed using the choreographic software program LifeForms. In program notes to a performance of the dance, Cunningham suggested that the vowel-less title referred to the way in which technology both crowded space and quickened the pace of daily life. The project merges Cunninham's vision of a decentered organization of the stage with Atlas' use of the computer as a conceptual extension of chance-generated decision-making.

Eye ( I )
Robert Buck
1985, 28 min, color, sound

Mirror
Robert Buck
1985, 28 min, color, sound

Rock Video: Cherry Blossom
Shigeko Kubota
1986, 12:54 min, color, silent

A single-channel version of Kubota's installation of the same name, Rock Video: Cherry Blossom is a lyrical fusion of nature and technology. Branches of pink cherry blossoms etched against a vivid blue sky are the starting point for this sensual visual haiku. Through a fluid application of...

STOP
Robert Buck
1985, 28 min, color, sound

TV Architecture
Robert Buck
1986, 28 min, color, sound