Merce by Merce by Paik Part Two: Merce and Marcel

Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota

1978, 13:05 min, color, sound

In Merce and Marcel, Paik and Shigeko Kubota create a densely textured, transcultural collage that pays tribute to the eponymous artists by addressing the relationship of art and life. Paik and Kubota link art to the movements and gestures of the everyday.

Merlo

Joan Jonas

1974, 16:13 min, b&w, sound

Produced at the seminal video art studio Art/Tapes/22 in Florence, Merlo is an early piece in which Jonas performs alone in several dramatic outdoor locations: a rocky gorge, a wind-tossed river, a balcony looking out over a valley. Cloaked in a dark, hooded robe, Jonas employs a long paper cone as a megaphone, singing melodies and keening, animal-like, into the landscape. The cone figure and the specific melodies that Jonas uses are recurring motifs in her performance vocabulary.

MIKE

Mike Smith 

1987, 3:49 min, b&w and color, sound

Here, "another regular day" in the life of Mike reveals a world completely envisioned and experienced through the images and slogans of the media. Mike enacts his daily routine — waking, shaving, dressing — as if he were in one advertisement after another. His language is the empty jargon of ad...

Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic?

Tony Cokes 

2006-2008, 31:07 min, b&w, sound

Drawing from music critic Philip Sherburne’s writings and British cultural theorist Paul Gilroy’s influential study The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1994), Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic? considers the socio-political context undergirding the roots of minimal techno in...

Millennia

Barbara Buckner

1981, 5:33 min, color, silent

Mirage

Joan Jonas

1976, 31 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on video

Writes Jonas: "For Mirage I made a film of drawing, again and again, images on a blackboard, and then erasing them. Reading the essays collected in Spiritual Disciplines, I got another idea to use drawings, also in Mirage, which I called 'Endless Drawings' after those described in the Melukean...

Mirage 2

Joan Jonas

1976-2000, 30 min, b&w, sound

Mirage 2, which Jonas edited at EAI in 2000 for simultaneous projection with her 1976 film Mirage, is a montage composed of video dating from the era of the original film and performance. A kaleidoscopic and hypnotic piece, it revisits footage recorded in the 1970s: fragments of off-air...

Mirror

Robert Buck

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Mobile Homestead Christening Ceremony and Launch

Mike Kelley

2011, 53:12 min, color, sound, HD video

Model Release

In collaboration with Constance DeJong 

1992, 3:24 min, color, sound

Writes Oursler: "Model Release uses legal text to draw parallels between slavery, prostitution, spiritual possession and the practices of the media machine. The viewer is asked to fill-in-the-blanks of the contract and decide what part of their being they are willing to give up."