Lynda Benglis – Contraband (2008, 26 MB, 2:20 min)
Artist Lynda Benglis discusses the process of creating Contraband
by pigmenting rubber latex and pouring it on the floor of her studio.
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Max Moswitzer – early found footage and remixed videos
ZWlSCHENLAGERUNG EINER NULLOESUNG (1988, 10.5 MB, 4:47 min)
COMPUTER GAME (1987, 9 MB, 3:53 min)
Early videos by Max Moswitzer using found footage material, remix
and live performance.
ZWlSCHENLAGERUNG EINER NULLOESUNG was using documentary
films from 1938-1945 and was a live action performance at the
University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1988.
COMPUTER GAME was exhibited at ARS Electronica in 1987.
More Max Moswitzer here.
Three from Writtle
Ashleigh Smith – Impossible Conversations (2010, 75 MB, 2:30 min)
Emma Haggis – Out of Sight, Out of Mind (2010, 118 MB, 2:18 min)
Lucy Mills – Response (2010, 108 MB, 2:02 min, silent)
So, first, I should say, Writtle is where I taught this year, but it cuts both ways:
I wouldn’t post these pieces by graduating students here on DVblog unless I
thought they were all great, which I do.
They’re also diverse, in a fascinating way.
There’s Ashleigh Smith’s haunting – stays with you long afterwards – game/real life hybrid,
Lucy Mills beauty industry critique – half mash-up, half rather brave performance,
(It’s interesting the way that all three pieces incorporate, to
some degree, elements of self performance) and Emma Haggis’s superbly made
and utterly captivating stop motion environmental piece.
In each case one can see a personal language well into its development.
(All these pieces or variants/derivatives thereof formed part of larger
installations; I’m impressed by the naturalness & lack of self consciousness
with with these three move between modes of working/presentation)
I hope they’re all still making work in ten years – given this
starting point then that would be a treat in store.
Walead Beshty on his Whitney Biennial Installation
Walead Beshty – Whitney Focus (2008, 25 MB, 2:18 min)
2008 Whitney Biennial artist Walead Beshty discusses his photographs
of the former Iraqi embassy to the former East Germany (two nations that no longer exist)
and the complex ideas behind them. He also explains why his glass sculptures
have acquired multiple cracks and fissures.
Produced by the Whitney Museum.
William Eggleston – Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008
William Eggleston interviewed by Michael Almereyda (2009, 61 MB, 5:31 min)
This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film
director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of Eggleston
Nam June Paik – documenta performance
documenta performance (1977, 6 MB, 1:35 min.)
The 1977 “documenta” show, which became known as the ‘media documenta’,
opened its doors with a live satellite telecast from Kassel.
Nam June Paik appeared together with Charlotte Moorman and used the slot
for a Dadaistic, allusive excursion through his performance and installation works.
from ZKM Videosammlung.
Veronique Hubert – Two Movies
A Cube Bavards (2009, 20MB, 2:47 min)
A Venir Le Monde Sera Beau (2009, 52MB, 9:51 min)
OK -comparisons, I’m aware, can sometimes obscure as much as they illuminate but
imagine, if you will, a female, French, slightly more lapidary, Matthew Barney and it does
seem to fit the bill.
Exemplary and wonderful strangeness from Veronique Hubert.
VALIE EXPORT – Fragmente der Bilder einer Ber
Jenny Holzer discusses the programming of her LED sculptures From Art:21 We showed some earlier footage of the work featured here last May Now Nathaniel Stern and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger have a show at Gallery A.O.P Usually I fight shy of reproducing artists’ own publicity but I’m going to “The works are surprising, wistful, enchanting, and seriously playful.” I don’t know whether we have any readers in Johannesburg – if yes I strongly * and in the interests of transparency I should say that I wrote the accompanying
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Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT
Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT (2009, 23MB, 2:40 min.)
during the installation of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Nathaniel Stern & Jessica Meuninck-Ganger – Passing Between/Distill Life
The Works (2010, 15MB, 4:27 min)
Interview/Documentary (2010, 23MB, 6:38 min)
and waxed lyrical about it.
in Johannesburg, South Africa, opening tomorrow, and we’re delighted
to feature two videos, one of the works themselves and one of a documentary
about their making and the impulse behind them, including interviews with
Nathaniel and Jessica.
These videos are also on a DVD* which comes with the show catalogue.
break from the rule here because what they themselves say sums the pieces
up rather nicely.
Jessica Meuninck-Ganger and Nathaniel Stern approach both old and
new media as form.
In their “Distill Life” works, the artists permanently mount translucent
prints and drawings directly on top of video screens, creating moving
images on paper. They incorporate technologies and aesthetics from
traditional printmaking – including woodblock, silk screen, etching,
lithography, photogravure etc – with the technologies and aesthetics
of contemporary digital, video and networked art, to explore images
as multidimensional.
Meuninck-Ganger and Stern hack and tweak, shoot and print,
appropriate and remix, edit and draw. Their juxtaposition of anachronistic
and disparate methods, materials and content -print and video, paper
and electronics, real and virtual – enables novel approaches to
understanding each. The artists engage with subject matter ranging
from historical portraiture to current events, from hyperreal landscapes
to socially awkward moments.
The works are surprising, wistful, enchanting, and seriously playful.
– absolutely!
urge you to go along to what promises to be a real treat.
music for the video documentation…