Single Artist Compilations

Single Artist Compilations are surveys of an artists moving image work.
HalfLifers: Rescue Series
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Rescue Series is a HalfLifers project that attempts to articulate deep-seated anxieties about the loss of functionality or purpose through a series of spontaneous “crisis re-enactments.” As these fears overwhelm the psyche, the simplest...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: humor, performance

HalfLifers: The Complete History, 1992 - 2010
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HalfLifers is an ongoing collaborative project created by longtime friends and fellow media artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony M. Discenza. Embracing a gestural improvisation-based performance style and championing a rigorously low-fi...

 

Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets

Tags: body, death and dying, food, future/technology, humor, media analysis, performance

Nelson Henricks Videoworks: Volume 1
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"The videowork of Nelson Henricks, though quite varied in treatment and theme, has worked toward the articulation of a single concern: How can love fly through the air and be received by me?"

—Steve Reinke

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: consumer culture, humor, performance, videoworks

Nelson Henricks Videoworks: Volume 2
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Three of these four works form a trilogy that explores one of the principle metaphors of video: the window. The window is used to examine notions of knowledge, voyeurism, surveillance and time. In addition, Crush is a reflection on identity,...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: autobiography, body, diary, experimental film, lgbt, sexuality, videoworks

Louis Hock: The Mexican Tapes
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This series of four videos explores Hock’s growing friendship and empathy with his Mexican neighbors, his acceptance into their community, and an examination of their day-to-day struggles.

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: family, latino/chicano, politics

Jason Simon: Three Videos
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This special box set, Jason Simon: Three Videos, includes a booklet with an in depth essay by media scholar Cynthia Chris.

"More than any other media artist, Jason Simon explores the inner reaches of American consumer culture in...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets

Tags: consumer culture, media analysis, performance, television

Miranda July Videoworks: Volume 1
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Four short videos by artist Miranda July, covering the period 1996 to 2001.

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: family, home dvd, mental landscape, performance, sexuality, videoworks, youth/childhood

Third Known Nest by Tom Kalin
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"Third Known Nest is a collection of nine short works completed approximately one per year from 1991 to 1999. Interwoven with nine quotations from some of my favorite writers, the eighteen short entries in Third Known Nest...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: lgbt, literature, music

Barbara Aronofsky Latham, Barbara Latham Videoworks: Volume 1
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The five videos featured here investigate video as a tool for storytelling and the construction of alternate identities. Ultimately Latham concludes that video is an unsatisfactory and cumbersome tool useful only for the creation of dislocated...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations, Early Video Art

Tags: body, feminism, video history, videoworks