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"The First Intermediate Period, around 2025 BCE, was the occasion for a remarkable constellation of innovations in Egyptian thought and civil order. After the death of Pepi II, the longest-reigning monarch in history, none of the numerous claimants to his sacred throne was able to reverse the dire drought, which announced the modern incursions of the Sahara into Egypt. One after another these 'seventy pharaohs in seventy days' were secretly denounced and executed, and simultaneously Egypt was visited by refugees filtering in across the eastern and western sands. Local nobles were unopposed in their power for the first time in a millennium, and they attained to the same privileges as pharaoh in the afterworld ('the West'). Eventually for the first time men and women won rights of private ownership, of contracted marriages, and of entry to the West (with a proper burial). Remarkably, individuals began reflecting in writing on the world around them, and the first introspective literature was invented. Long-shot/run/dead immerses itself in this concatenation of catastrophes, which is elaborated across the mixed space of family, gender, writing, law, civil order, religion, personal identity, and death. Any historical complex is simultaneously an invocation of our own condition—the conviction that sustains 'history' as narrative arises amid the multiplication of overdetermining details that compose its 'authenticity.' When it is completed, Long-shot/run/dead will incorporate scenes set in the present day US. It is the 'Egyptian' scenes that are attentive to authenticating details of period props and costuming." —Tony Conrad
1920s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending artists lived and worked together all their lives. Heroic resisters to the Nazis occupying Jersey Isle during WWII, they were captured and sentenced to death.
In her very first moving image work, Cantor already displays the masterly use of appropriated footage for which she would become known, inserting explicit scenes from the classic porn film Behind the Green Door (1972) into key scenes of lovemaking from Louis Malle’s 1959 succès de scandale The Lovers.
Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of television and cinema. Quoting from a catalogue of popular styles and sources, from TV commercials to The Wizard of Oz, the Yonemotos construct a parable of...
MAJORCA - fantasia
Nam June Paik in collaboration with Paul Garrin and Amy Greenfield
1989, 4:52 min, color, sound
MAJORCA-fantasia is a densely textured collage of often discordant, often beautiful visual and aural elements. To an exquisite musical composition by Chopin, as interpreted by Charlie Morrow, Paik and Garrin create a surreal pastiche of fragmented, manipulated elements: The late ...
Single-channel screen recording of a live bot performance on Instagram (Walmart), November, 26, 2019.
Walking through Buffalo, New York's suburban Walden Galleria Mall.
In elegiac work, Kubota explores the relationship between two of the most influential figures in 20th century art and music. The core images are Kubota's own photographs of the famous chess match between Duchamp and Cage in 1968, in which the board, wired for sound, functioned as a musical instrument. Recordings of Cage's compositions accompany the stills and video footage, which Kubota electronically processes to abstraction.
Writes Cokes, "The video animation is based on the closing section of Cokes' and Perchuk's second collaborative presentation, 'Margins and Bubbles,' at 'Our Literal Speed 2' at the University of Chicago in May 2009. Visually, it features text excerpts from an interview between artist Tino Sehgal and critic / art historian David Joselit on contemporary art, the political potentials of the marketplace, and the positive value of 'consumer choice' that took place at OLS1 at ZKM in Karlsruhe."
