“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
Tag: Events
TV/Voyeur
Freebasing TeleVision culture. Videos by Alex Bag, Michel Auder, Jennifer Reeder, Animal Charm, Maura Jasper.
VERTIGO-GO with WFMU
The 9-hour event included film and light installations, live film and music performances, and curated programs of film and video.
REPORT
Unconventional narratives by John Baldessari, Katherin Resetarits, Hollis Frampton.
SEXUALITY MALFUNCTIONED
(Performance) Anxiety, ambivalence, anticipation.
CAUSE/FFECT
kinetics + chemistry + progress.
Paint It Black
An evening of dark films and videos. Optical printing and video manipulation create dense layers of nausea. Meditations on media and culture. The use of technology for subversive purposes. Dis-ease.
On: location
Films about places and site-specific actions, investigations and de-constructions. “Astria Suparak has cleverly curated a program of films that focus on landscapes and cityscapes.” – The Village Voice
BROKEN MUSIC
Musical instruments are destroyed and technology is applied in peculiar ways. These de- compositions are made for video by both contemporary and historical figures, with a nod to Jimi Hendrix and the Fluxus movement.
BODY/LANGUAGE
Conceptual, performance-based and seminal videotapes from the 1970s with an emphasis on language, contrasted by recent work by Zhuang Huan, who does radical, often painful actions in silence.
Energy Transformation in Modern Cinematography
Recent experimental films from The Netherlands and Austria.
PLAYGIARISM
“This program includes some of the most intriguing recent and historical works [of found footage collage films]” – The Village Voice
Leslie Thornton + Mauricio Kagel
A rare screening of films by experimental composer Kagel + “Peggy and Fred in Hell is one of the strangest cinematic artifacts of the last 20 years, revealing the abuses of history and innocence in the face of catastrophe…”
Bestiary
Alexander Calder, The Wooster Group, Peter Greenaway
Girl Trouble
Chantal Akerman’s first film from age 18 and Sadie Benning’s newest video.
Films In The Round
(full-figured films). Elliptical narratives, repetition, and other round things.
Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Ericka Beckman
Videos by Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Ericka Beckman, and collaborations among them.
Miranda July, Octant, Big Miss Moviola
Live performance, lady-made movies, and a robot band.
Chris Burden + “Young & Restless” performance-based works by women
Performance-based videos by Chris Burden from the early 1970s and by contemporary female artists from two decades later.
Friedrich, Müller, Fieber
Films by Su Friedrich, Jennifer Fieber, Matthias Müller.