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  Kevin Jerome Everson’s prolific body of work is grounded in formalism and combines scripted and documentary elements. The subject matter is the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of African-Americans and people of African...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: african-american, documentary, experimental film, family, found footage, labor, mixed media, photography, race |
This compilation is a fresh, witty, and compelling addition to video’s rich legacy of media deconstruction. Through appropriation and reassemblage, these intriguing works upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing by displacing its logic and...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: animals, chicago art, culture jamming, found footage, humor, media analysis, videoworks |
A collection of videotapes from Animal Charm that reconfigure found footage, creating a compelling new world of odd juxtaposition and sinister strangeness.
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: found footage, videoworks |
Furthering the Animal Charm mission to undermine normality and create new stories from old, the videotapes in this collection seek to reinterpret and/or disrupt the flow of found footage narrative.
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: culture jamming, found footage, humor, videoworks |
A compilation of five of Sadie Benning’s early works. In Jollies, Benning gives a chronology of her crushes and kisses, tracing the development of her nascent sexuality. Addressing the camera with an air of seduction and romance, Benning...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: lgbt, pixelvision, videoworks, youth/childhood |
Volume 2 includes the pixelvision works made in 1992: A Place Called Lovely, It Wasn't Love, and Girlpower. A Place Called Lovely references the types of violence individuals find in life, from explicit...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: lgbt, pixelvision, sexuality, videoworks, youth/childhood |
A collection of three remarkable works by Sadie Benning, produced between 1995 and 1998, including German Song, The Judy Spots, and Flat is Beautiful. Shot in black and white Super-8 film, German Song muses on a...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: consumer culture, feminism, lgbt, pixelvision, videoworks |
"Begun in 1983 and completed in 1992, Between the Frames offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Artist Compilations Tags: art collectors, art criticism, art history, artist spaces, interview |
Using Wagner's Faust as a touchstone, Damnation of Faust is a trilogy of highly structured and composed video works evoking a free-floating, non-linear dream or memory. The broad themes of the work are conflicting forms of...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: feminism, literature |