Ad Vice

Tony Cokes

1999, 6:36 min, color, sound

Ad Vice inhabits the realm of the music-video, only to use that form's language against itself in a subtle critique of the interactions of desire and commerce in a capitalist culture.

Analogue Assemblage

Nam June Paik

2000, 2:08 min, color, sound

Drawing from Paik's earliest experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current technology to create a multilayered montage that references both the old and the new. An eerie electronic score from 1969 floats over ghostly processed images; the result is a paean to the way the future was.

Lieder

Cheryl Donegan

2000, 2:45 min, color, sound

In Lieder, Donegan sets up a series of charged relationships -- between artist and model, art object and artistic "gesture," performer and viewer. Donegan is rendered anonymous in an absurdist mask, her head wrapped in plastic bottles and duct-tape, her pregnant body swathed in a black garbage bag.

Mrs. Peanut Visits New York

Charles Atlas 

1999, 6:05 min, color, sound

Mrs. Peanut Visits New York is a video portrait of the legendary late performance artist, fashion designer, and nightlife icon Leigh Bowery. Atlas' camera follows Bowery as he flamboyantly strolls through Manhattan's Meatpacking District, outrageously costumed in a self-made reinterpretation of "Mr. Peanut," the Planter's Peanut mascot. Bowery's molded full-bodysuit, accessorized with a floral print dress, top hat and transparent-heeled platform shoes, draws stares from onlookers. Peanut-related pop songs accompany him on the soundtrack.

Organic Honey's Vertical Roll

Joan Jonas

1973-99, 15 min, b&w, sound

This documentation of a 1972 performance, in which Jonas performs as "Organic Honey," includes many of her signature devices: mirrors, masks, and the use of video for spatial, temporal, and psychological layering. In this prescient work, Jonas relates the theatrical space of her live performance...

Philly

Hannah Wilke

1977, 32 min, b&w, sound

Philly documents a 1976 performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in which Wilke interacts with Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. Edited by John Sanborn, the piece juxtaposes behind-the-scenes dialogue and preparations with the performance itself, showing us a playful Wilke.

Room 1503 in a row

Phyllis Baldino 

2000, 6:05 min, color, sound

In this conceptual piece, Baldino examines the contextualization of art history, training her camera on a college course on modern and contemporary art. The professor delivers virtually identical lectures to three successive classes, all of which are taped by Baldino. The second class, however,...

Testing_Results

Kristin Lucas

2000, 6:10 min, color, sound

In these short episodes, created while she was in Japan, Lucas is seen within a playful yet alienating landscape of global pop culture and consumerism. Snatches of radio mix with video games and sales pitches on the soundtrack, as we catch Lucas's image, distorted by surveillance cameras or...

Y00 (YearZEROZERO)

Peter d'Agostino

1999-00, 6:30 min, color, sound

Racing backwards and forward in time, Y00 is a dense collage of images that reflects the spread of high-tech global capitalism at the turn of the millennium. Encompassing military and news footage, flying saucers, and Times Square at New Year's Eve, d'Agostino's rapid-paced editing and digital...