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Peggy and Fred in Kansas is one of the earliest installments in Thornton's Peggy and Fred in Hell series. We are introduced to the post-apocalyptic room where the children, "raised on television," act and re-enact a disjointed play on media narratives. Peggy and Fred channel their isolation like open radios, as if boredom were the frequency from which media is transmitted.
Part of a series of videos composed with LoVid's handmade analog synthesizer, this video and sound piece creates a hypnotic illusion of traveling into flickering geometries and simultaneously forces an awareness of the screen's planar materiality. Color and motion, in play with static figures in black and white, are set in explosive tension with one another in the final moments of the video, where the intensification of rhythm and a frenetic overlap of color and emptiness effect a totality of saturated incomprehensibility.
"Vice President Mike Pence eagerly plays cheerleader in chief for Donald Trump. In accepting the vice-presidential nomination in 2016, Pence proclaimed, 'I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican — in that order,' suggesting how we might understand his role. This ground-breaking,...
Comprised of newsreel out-takes purchased by Jacobs for $5 on Canal Street, Perfect Film depicts the news as "a daily tidal sweep and very little of what we learn can stick, and move us to take action towards the control of events. Anything may be revealed for a day and then it must clear the stage immediately."
This video was initially part of a sculptural installation, comprised of a barbershop station extracted from Perry’s Newark studio (a former salon) — shelves, mirror and all. In the video, the artist crosses the screen in a shot that reflects where the viewer would have stood in the original...
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.
A home-movie paean to the Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom plumbs the depths of boudoir small talk.
This is one of several exercises that explore the notion of extreme concentration. Blindfolded, Acconci attempts to intuite the position of another person's hands over his body.