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A thread illuminated with neon video static pushes its way through a white sleeve, linking one arm to another. Commenting on the linkages between technology and the body—literally sewing the two together—Tension Tape can also be seen as making a reference to theories of time and reality, "string theory," and the question of temporal continuity, with the string embodying the chronological sequencing and causal relationship between events and the complicating gaps in its continuum.
Test patterns refers to a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active—most recognizable as bright strips of color shown on the TV screen when an image is not playing. In this video, what Hershman Leeson refers to as a “factional docudrama,” a “test pattern...
Produced by De Appel, Amsterdam, while General Idea was in residence there, Test Tube was conceived as a program for television. Presented under the brand "The Color Bar Lounge," the program is a hybrid of popular television formats, including talk show, soap opera, news magazine, and infomercial.
This video examines the sorts of propaganda that a corporation might distribute internally to communicate an over-arching mandate or vision to its workers in order to boost morale. Bernadette Corporation slyly turns the notion inside out, yielding a document that at once subverts and expresses the form.
A short documentary centering the literary figure JT LeRoy, a persona embodied by the artist Laura Albert and portrayed by Savannah Knoop from 1996-2006. Hershman Leeson supplements interviews with Albert and Knoop with pieces from the popular press “uncovering” Leroy’s identity and pursuing...
Writes Kelley: "This is my only truly solo video project. The tape is an exploration of character and was done in direct reaction to my performance work at the time, which was characterless. Video seemed a good way, by virtue of it not operating in 'real' time, of dealing with character and...
The Big Wheel
Chris Burden. In collaboration with Willoughby Sharp and Robert Burden.
1980, 29:02 min, color, sound
During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were interviewed by art critic Willoughby Sharp. Burden articulates the process of creating The Big Wheel, a 6,000-pound, spinning cast-iron flywheel that is...
Collaging appropriated CGI-animated clips from the Taiwanese news outlet TomoNews, The Blackest Sea juxtaposes the sky and sea as primordial phenomena against the anxious, bureaucratic features of modern human life. Hundreds of fish die and float to the top of the ocean due to pollution and rising temperatures; a deep-sea diver discovers a ceramic pot on the ocean floor; Syrian refugees flee across the ocean in tight-packed quarters, and a group of surfers spot the great white whale. By recontextualizing apocalyptic footage that is at once hyperrealistic and surreal, Ahwesh magnifies the ever-shifting relationship between news documentations of current events and the circumstances that produce them. Writes Peggy Ahwesh: “My intention is to force the source material to point back to itself and lay bare the gap between that sketchy cartoon world and reality.”
