I Am Making Art   00:18:46 1971
"A good example of Baldessari's deadpan irreverence is the 1971 black-and-white videotape entitled I Am Making Art, in which he moves different parts of his body slightly while saying, after each move, ÔI am making art.' The statement, he says, Ôhovers between assertion and belief.' On one level, the piece spoofs the work of artists who, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, explored the use of their own bodies and gestures as an art medium. The endless repetition, awkwardness of the movements made by the artist, and the reiteration of the statement ÔI am making art,' create a synthesis of gestural and linguistic modes which is both innovative (in the same way that the more serious work of his peers is innovative) and absurdly self-evident." —Marcia Tucker, "John Baldessari: Pursuing the Unpredictable," John Baldessari (New York: New Museum, 1981) This title was in the original Castelli-Sonnabend video art collection.	Biography of John Baldessari Titles by John Baldessari: Baldessari Sings LeWitt Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios I Am Making Art I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art Inventory The Meaning of Various Newsphotos to Ed Henderson - 2 The Meaning of Various Photographs to Ed Henderson - 1 Teaching a Plant the Alphabet The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales Xylophone Work by John Baldessari also appears on: Anthology: Surveying the First Decade