TROUBLE: Hollywood viewed by the avant-garde cinema

TROUBLE was created to accompany the exhibition, Richard Kerr’s Industry at La Cinematheque quebecoise.

HOW TO BE A CANADIAN

Utilizing artistic (re)enactment, telepathetic aesthetics, manual animation, performance and a grab bag of low-end high technologies, these videos question traditional representations of (Canadian) identity and gender.

ELUSIVE QUALITY

This touring program champions the realities of failure in relation to fantasies of athletic, sexual, and political mastery. Together, the works make for a powerful aesthetic of the undone.

WHAT IS SEX?

Research project that captures the conflicting ideas, fears, and hopes about sex from the early 21st century.

LET’S GET TESTED

Playfully adapting public space into personal games, these makers look at architecture, videogames, biology, schoolwork, history and even their own memories with fresh eyes and twitchy fingers. Often sincere, sometimes willfully naive, they project a new optimism and the ability to self-amuse and re-imagine.

ADOLESCENT BOYS, AND LIVING ROOMS

These audios + videos are forcibly lonely and nihilistically sweet. They’ll pin you down and slowly drip spit on you, whether you’re practicing crossovers on a suburban driveway or pile-drivers in a backyard wrestling ring. I’ve got the moves if you’ve got the skills (together we could make a great team).

LOOKING IS BETTER THAN FEELING YOU

With an irreverence for punk rockers, adults like parents and politicians, non-adults like breasts and babies, and people we generally approve of such as artists and scientists, these works reveal that posers are sometimes better than the real thing.

KEEP IN TOUCH!

These works are brazenly aware of their own representation, those fake gestures symbolizing love, and the self-proclaimed identity of Art. On the other hand, this is a Science Fair. We’re interested in breeding and practicing our (dance) moves until perfection is reached, and by golly you’re either with us or against us. Young people, always forward!

THE BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE: Stories, Maps and Notes from the Half-Light

Musicians improvise live to an international program of new short films on a six-country tour.

A NEW ROMANTIC T.V. SOUND

Video art, experimental film, and audio composition with an art-school edge, reinventions of 1960s body/performance art and 1980s New Wave aloofness.

DIVE-IN MOVIES: MoMA PS1 Summer Film Series

Held outdoors on PS1’s urban beach, Dive-in Movies is a technicolored summer of star-gazing, subversive silver screen myths, love notes from the underground, and 3-D creatures that only come out at night.

SOME KIND OF LOVING

This videotape compilation explores sexuality from its formulation in childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood, referencing psychoanalytic theory as easily as pop culture.

#91: LAST DANCE, LAST CHANCE

The 91st and final show at Pratt. “Curator Astria Suparak leaves Pratt with a bang.” – Village Voice

Camp, Fire

Julie Zando, Jennet Thomas, Bjorn Melhus, Cathy Cook

Recital

Self-reflexivity and the rites of passage.

{Re:soundings}

Rarely seen optical work from the German collective SELEKTION and videos by American artists working with avant-garde musicians in the early 1980s.

Dark Into Dark

“Video is used by Vito Acconci, Charlemagne Palestine, and Tony Oursler as a medium for investigating and exhibiting obsession, trauma, and need for control.” – Village Voice