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Anxious Automation, taped at Windsor Total Video in New York City, is set up such that two camerapeople, standing slightly apart, zoom in and out on Joan Jonas, who is lying on her back performing a series of four movements that range from slow to quick. There are six variations on the zoom...

April
LoVid
2020, 25:54 min, color, sound, HD video

Commissioned by ISSUE Project Room for their series of “Isolated Field Recordings” streamed online during the global COVID-19 pandemic, April was shot toward the start of quarantine conditions in the US. The video's premiere, which helped raise money for ERASE Racism, took place shortly after...

April is the Cruelest Month
Shigeko Kubota
1999, 52 min, color, sound

With April is the Cruelest Month, Kubota continues her ongoing video diary project. Here she reflects on her relationship with her husband Nam June Paik, in a collage of documents including interviews, performances and installations, as well as footage of the couple in Miami Beach, where they spent their winter months.

Arequipa
Barbara Hammer 
1980, 8:13 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

“Shot in the Peruvian convent of Santa Catalina, Arequipa analogizes the building blocks of film (frames, color and black and white stocks, negative reversal, superimpositions) to the frames of architecture (doorways, windows, walls, corridors). The confinement of the frame, the convent, changed...

Art Make-Up
Bruce Nauman
1967-68, 40 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video

In each of these four related films, the artist applies a successive layer of colored makeup (white, pink, green, and finally black) to his face and upper torso. While he masks himself literally, the title implies that in so doing he also creates himself, "makes himself up." Initially the films...

Video compiled from editing together the most random results for contemporary art related searches on Youtube & performed with live voice over @ Art In General, 2008.

Art Thoughtz with Hennessy Youngman is an episodic, Internet-based talk show in which Musson performs in the guise of hip-hop "art critic" Hennessy Youngman. In a series of short, talking-head monologues, Youngman offers aspiring artists his irreverent views on the contemporary art world, from...

Artists + Models
Cheryl Donegan
1998, 4:43 min, b&w, sound

In this black and white performance tape, Donegan continues her ironic exploration of the process of making art. Working within the format of a music video, Donegan plays with notions of artist and model, subject and object, and the "painterly gesture."

As Is:
Edin Velez
1984, 11:28 min, color, sound

As Is: is a mythical interpretation of New York City, from the grand theater of its urban architecture to its diverse ethnic heritage. Velez reshapes and layers the urban landscape, isolating gestures and rituals — the hand signals of traders on the New York Stock Exchange, coffee taste-testers —...

Ask the Goddess
Carolee Schneemann
1991, 8:24 min, color, sound

Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from cards they have submitted. A continuous relay of projected slides comprises an iconography of Goddess symbols, taboo and sacred, as Schneemann reacts spontaneously to the questions.