The Contra-Internet Inversion Practice series confronts the transformation of the internet into an instrument for state oppression and accelerated capitalism. Invoking a practice of utopian plagiarism, Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: feminism, future, lgbtq, technology
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In the Post Pony Trilogy, Coonley serves as frustrated host to a series of flawed lessons on currency markets and current events. His heartbreak over a missing pony sidekick presents an obstacle to achieving his pedagogical goals. While coping with...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: humor, performance
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The Trick Pony Trilogy is a series of parodic instructional videos hosted by the artist and a talking mechanical hobbyhorse. Human and pony present lessons on a series of rule-based systems including Texas country dancing, the film editing principle...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: humor, music, performance
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In ten-minute segments devoted to three photographers (Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Laurie Simmons), MICA uses video to mirror the photographic techniques of each artist. For example, Sherman tells a faux interviewer about her work, while morphing...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Artist Compilations Tags: artist portraits, interview, photography
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Cuevas is obsessed with the micro movements of daily life, with the border between truth and fiction, with the "impossibility" of reality. Her work relentlessly seeks out the layers of lies covering the everyday representations of reality and...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: found footage, gender, hollywood, humor, latino/chicano, love, media analysis, mental landscape, performance, sexuality
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Utilizing a mix of documentary and improvisational styles, the portraits featured in these three videos highlight the often forgotten, the marginal, those on the edge of society. The portraits are equally grotesque, comic and tender, and Cumming’s...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: documentary, photography, portrait, videoworks
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In these two videos, Cumming investigates the worlds of a pair of abject heroes, Colin and Pierre, one a recovering alcoholic, the other an addict. One talks angrily about his former addiction and of the sacrifices he made for the “romance” of a...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: health, memory, mental landscape, performance, portrait, videoworks
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Three short pieces highlighting how difficult it is to create images that make sense in a world where everything is flawed and everything has already been said.
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: humor, mental landscape, performance, videoworks
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