Category Archives: performance

Curt Cloninger – cannonball

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cannonball
cannonball (1996, 32.6MB, 3:35 min.)

Hi all,
This was recorded at the Blockbuster Video grand opening in Daphne,
Alabama, US, on December 6, 1996. They had a video karaoke machine
with a bluescreen, and you could choose your song and they would tape
you and give you a copy of the videotape. I think I might have also
had the option to select “Sci-fi” background or something like that.
The whole process took about five minutes and this was the result.

Some close friends refer to this as the highlight of my artistic
career, and sometimes I am inclined to agree with them.
Enjoy,
Curt.

More Scritti Politti

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Boom There She Was
Boom There She Was (1988, 19.6MB, 4:12 min)

Hypnotize
Hypnotize (1985, 7.91MB, 3:26 min)

More stuff, both wonderful & ineffably strange, from the great Scritti Politti.
I defy you not to be utterly exhilirated ( at the same time as hating yourself a little bit)
by premise & execution both of BTSW…and…
what is going on with the see-saw stuff at the end of the
Hypnotize vid!?
Video makers of the world, the race is on to rehabilitate & assimilate this move
into our vocabulary..

Joseph Chomiak – down and out

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downandout
down and out (2006, 15.3MB, 2:35 min.)

A silent comedy from undergroundfilm.
by Joseph Chomiak.

A Fluxus Re-enactment: A Walk Into the Sea

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A Walk Into the Sea
A Walk Into the Sea (2006, 21.3MB, 3:55 min.)

Re-enactment by Zach Layton of Ben Vautier’s 1963
performance a walk into the sea.
Great!

Holographic Wainscoting again

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phoneface
phoneface (2006, 14.9MB, 28 sec)


Red ball
Red ball (2006, 2.27MB, 38 sec )

More holographicwainscoting.

Donna Kuhn – I don’t fix a word

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I don
I don’t fix a word (2006, 4.5 MB, 2:16 min)

Mini Me
Mini-Me (2005, 12.1MB, 2:25 min)

These two videos by Donna Kuhn were made in circumstances of terrible
personal loss: the death of her son & then later that of a close friend.
Astonishing then, their delicacy & richness & the sheer dexterity of
handling & making, particularly in I don’t fix a word which
is a jewel, a small masterpiece.

Holographic Wainscoting

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The Butter Skin Outtakes
The Butter Skin Outtakes (2006, 12MB, 1:16 min.)


Haloweb
Haloweb (2006, 14.2MB, 2:04 min.)

Work from Carl Burton, trading as holographicwainscoting.
I love this stuff. It’s strange but not simply strange, you know,
not just something you grin or raise an eyebrow at and then move on.
There’s substance & there’s an austere lyricism (if that ‘s not too much of an oxymoron)
to the substance too.
We’re going to do three posts on this work & you’ll see an interesting evolution
from the first two to the final one.

OK Go in LEGO – Amy Fowler

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legoMen - OK Go
OK Go in Lego (2007, 53.3MB, 3:11 min.)

Rather wonderful re-construction in LEGO by Amy Fowler
of the OK Go video for A Million Ways .
Kind of rendering the minimal..er..minimaler.

By Mica Scalin.

Anthony Rousseau

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Bodyparts
Bodyparts (2006, 5.6MB, 1:00 min)

Visualcut
Visualcut#1 (2006, 6.8MB, 1:15 min)

There seems to be a very lively experimental online video scene
in France. There’s lots of widely varying work but much of it seems to
be characterised by an enormous ‘confidence in the image’
& a concomitant richly visual & unbuttoned approach to dealing
with said image, free of conceptualist trammeling.
Anthony Rousseau’s work exemplifies these ( in my book at least) virtues.

Infinite Smile – MTAA

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Infinite Smile
Infinite Smile (2005, 10.1MB, 2:43 min. loop)

Self-portrait of MTAA smiling and blinking.
(M.River & T.Whid Art Assoc.)