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studio, time, isolation: reconstructions of soul and the sublime
Tony Cokes
2011, 9:36 min, color, sound, HD video
Writes Cokes, "A recent direction in my research interrogates the artist's studio, what happens there, how those practices are represented, what they imply in wider social contexts (real estate speculation, alleged 'creative economies,') and why traditional images of artists and studios persist in a virtual contemporary landscape. This video deploys an excerpt from Tom Holert's essay 'Studio Time,' but I remove the references in the text to a specific work, Western Recording by Mathias Poledna. Thereby, I enable aspects of Holert's argument to function as a comparison and differentiation of the artist's studio with sites of musical, filmic, and televisual production."
Substrait (Underground Dailies)
Gordon Matta-Clark
1976, 35:15 min, b&w and color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video
In this film, Matta-Clark explored and documented the underground spaces of New York City. The artist chose a range of sites (New York Central railroad tracks, Grand Central Station, 13th Street, Croton Aqueduct in Highgate, etc.) to show the variety and complexity of the underground spaces and tunnels in the metropolitan area.
Condit writes: "Suburbs of Eden is a musical drama about the family dreams of Anne, Michael and Hanna. The disappointments of this contemporary family are woven into the story of Adam, Eve and the Snake in the Garden of Eden." Condit brings her unique style and startling vision to this re-telling...
In Suet-Sin's Sisters, Yau Ching explores issues facing Chinese women in same-sex relationships. Interviews are intercut with archival footage of a classic Cantonese opera singer known for being a "mannish" woman.
As recounted by the camera, lighting, and sound engineer, Nathan Frank: "After experiencing a particularly painful alternative theater performance earlier in the day, Trevor was inspired to exorcise his own suffering. The performance, removed from the context of the theater, transported to a gloomy basement, and combined with a fair amount of cheap vodka, removes the pretense of experimental theater and replaces it with an undeniably palpable feeling of sad, dirty, desperation."
Suite 212
Nam June Paik. In collaboration with Douglas Davis, Jud Yalkut, and Shigeko Kubota.
1975, re-edited 1977, 30:23 min, color, sound
Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a fragmented tour of the city. Opening with the 1972 work The Selling of New York, a series of short segments designed for WNET's late-night television...
Robert Buck writes: "Opening with an excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke’s 'The Second Elegy' and set to Sade’s 'Kiss of Life,' the works manifestly romantic content is inseparable from the 8mm film on which it was shot. Again in my art, material precipitates meaning, and the semblant quality of the work and the idyll it captures can be felt."
Sun Tunnels documents the making of Holt's major site-specific sculptural work in the northwest Utah desert. Completed in 1976, the sculpture features a configuration of four large concrete tubes or "tunnels" that are positioned to align with the sunrise and sunset of the summer and winter solstices. With stunning footage of the changing sun and light as framed by the tubes, Sun Tunnels calls attention to human scale and perception within the vast desert landscape.
Sunstone is a landmark tape. Symbolic and poetic, it is a pivotal work in the development of an electronic language to articulate three-dimensional space. The opening image is an iconic face, which appears to be electronically "carved" from stone. A mystical third eye, brilliantly crafted from a...
"Superdyke gives the superhero a witty dyke inflection. It runs from mellow nature-loving to savvy urban pop, showing the thematic range of its author and the multiplicity of lesbian experience." — Juan Antonio Suarez
