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Slogans is a visual deconstruction of advertising slogans, a literal and metaphorical illustration of the disintegration and loss of meaning of information in the contemporary "media landscape." Appropriating text from a series of familiar print advertisements — "Choose Your Weapon," "Play to...
A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works by Samuel Beckett that describe similarly repetitive and meaningless activities. Hands clasped behind his back, he kicks one leg up at a right angle...
"I first heard of AIDS in 1985 when I was teaching at Columbia College in Chicago. I noticed the strange and inflammatory articles in the newspapers and I asked my students to collect hysteric headlines for me. And so I began my work on Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS. I examined the public ignorance, stigmatization, and just plain wrong attitudes towards this new illness. By making a snow storm of newspaper clippings I could show what a 'snow job' the media was making." — Barbara Hammer
Snowflake is one of more than a dozen newly restored works by Muntadas, including early media interventions and works produced for television, which were recently made available.
This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann's outrage and sorrows over the atrocities of the Vietnam War. In an ethereal stage environment combining colored light panels, film projection, torn collage, hanging sacks of colored water, "snow," crusted branches, rope, foil and foam, an audience-activated electronic switching system controlled elements of the performance/installation.
Jenkins’ music video for his conceptual art band Othervisions offers strategies for keeping one’s head above water amid tumult. Glowing natural scenes—a bubbling stream, spring florals—juxtapose with media clips testifying to widespread global violence and the rise of American neoconservatism....
Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada
Cecilia Vicuña
1980, 7:25 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video
In this performance, filmed in March 1980, Sol y Dar y Dad (Solidarity: To Give and Give Sun), one of the word-splitting, deconstructive poems Vicuña calls palabrarmas, is danced by Sofía Torres, young actors, volunteers from Corporación Colombiana de Teatro, and children at the Parque Nacional...
Recorded in EAI's offices and edited in the EAI Technical Facility, Somebody’s Baby is a DIY music video for Jackson Browne’s 1982 rock classic song of the same name. Writes Shimizu: "The footage for this music video was originally intended to be a short play about two arts administrators...
Son of Oil is a cautionary tale about the decline of Western civilization, as only Oursler could envision it. Oil is the central metaphor around which he constructs a burlesque critique of the cults of money and power that fuel economic and sexual systems, social pathology and cultural...
