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Mobile Homestead Christening Ceremony and Launch
Mike Kelley
2011, 53:12 min, color, sound, HD video
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."
Produced during Lee’s trip to her childhood home in New Jersey after the unexpected death of her mother, Mommy weaves the artist’s memories into a kaleidoscopic narrative of devotion, memory, intrafamilial desires, and the evolution of American subcultures on the Internet. Using her mother’s unfinished autobiography as a starting point, Lee infuses personal and family history, situating Mommy as a story of her mother’s life as well as her own.
Takeshi Murata continues to push the boundaries of digitally manipulated psychedelia. In Monster Movie Murata employs an exacting frame-by-frame technique to turn a bit of B-movie footage into a seething, fragmented morass of color and shape that decomposes and reconstitutes itself thirty times per second.
WARNING: This work contains throbbing light. Should not be viewed by individuals with epilepsy or seizure disorders.
"A curiosity, Movie Show looks backward to the era of structural films, particularly Ken Jacobs’s Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son. The clip of film used in this performance is taken from my Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals, the work with which I closed out my interest in combinatorial and logical structures." —Tony Conrad
In Mumble, Benglis investigates an aesthetic of distraction that could only have emerged from the nascent field of video art. The piece portrays a monitor, and on it the image of another monitor, containing yet a third: recordings nested within recordings. Fixed cameras are trained on static...
Donegan writes, "I had daydream that the Smiths asked me to make a video for their new single...When I was a kid in my 20's and was totally obsessed with the Smiths, the idea of video never occurred to me. Later, like 27 years later, I had a fantasy of what a great Smiths video I'd have made...with a big line dance on 14th Street that I'd film from a slow moving golf cart, with a huge cast of characters dancing like they did on the old Soul Train that I used to watch on TV on Saturday afternoons in the early 70's...I made this off YouTube and iTunes. The past, recovered..."
Mutual Native Duplex is a video essay on the mutual alliances between Native and African Americans which celebrates the "neo-American model" of inter-cultural cooperation that grew out of these encounters.
