Absence is Present: Dead Nature in the Dark

Phyllis Baldino 

2010, 2:36 min, color, silent

In this silent work, Baldino surreptitiously films André Derain's painting Nature Morte sur fond noir in the Musée d'Art Moderne in Troyes, France. She writes, "As a result of open-heart surgery last year, I currently have a blind spot near the center of my vision....Normally I do not create work that is explicitly related to my personal life, but this new series is about perception more than anything else."

Fire Over Water

Cecilia Vicuña

2014, 6:49 min, color, sound, HD video

In this "video poem," Vicuña responds to Gasland 2, a 2013 documentary by Josh Fox examining the devastating environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing in the United States. The audio recording of the poem Vicuña reads is from a July 18, 2013 performance at Poets House in New York City.

Selections From the Library

1990, 4:44 min, color, sound

These narrative texts are selections from the ongoing piece The Library, a projected 100-volume library of videotapes with stories/histories, facts/fictions, poems/descriptions.

Shape of a Right Statement

Wu Tsang

2008, 5:15 min, color, sound, HD video

Filmed at the Silver Platter, the bar that previously housed Wu Tsang’s club party Wildness, Shape of a Right Statement is a short work featuring Tsang’s recitation of one section of “In My Language,” a text by autism rights activist Mel Baggs.

The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson

John Baldessari 

1973, 15 min, b&w, sound

Writes Baldessari: "For most of us, photography stands for the truth. But a good artist can make a harder truth by manipulating forms. It fascinates me how I can manipulate the truth so easily by the way I juxtapose opposites or crop the image or take it out of context." Here he introduces eight...

Whispering Pines 6

Shana Moulton

2006, 5:45 min, color, sound

In this episode of her ongoing narrative performance series, Moulton's alter-ego Cynthia seeks solace from her troubles by putting together a puzzle and shopping for light-up waterfall decorations. The combination of these activities helps Cynthia to solve the puzzle of self-discovery.