Cut Piece (1965, 36.5MB, 9 min)
‘Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan,
and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965.
Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience
to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts
at the moment of unbosoming.’
from Bedazzled .
Beautiful Katamari Royal Rainbow (2008, 17MB 5:08 min)
Mad as a box of badgers but also very smart & winning, Joan Healy is a one-off.
We’ve featured her before, here’re some new vids of her work.
Even more here…
I Can’t Deal With This Stupid Ringing Forever (2009, 56MB 2:29 min)
Donna Kuhn has joined the little pantheon (Sondheim’s another, as is Sam Renseiw)
of people whose work I’m just going
to post regularly because they are great.
No apology, no argument.
If you can’t see it, the problem is yours.
Great. Great. Great.
Autoportrait d’Oro (2009, 63MB, 11:04 min)
There’s so much to commend in this quiet & beautiful piece I’m
unsure, really, where to start.
Three things though, stand out.
One is the modesty, the restraint, of the conception
-there’s no horrible look-at-how clever/shocking/whatever I am
about it, just some serious *looking*.
The camera looks and we look with it, with its (and with the artist’s,
although he’s there in the frame too) help.
Second, this austerity of visual means allows the sound to play a really
significant role in the piece. Again the work doesn’t trumpet its own innovative
qualities but quietly (pun intended) it does something quite radical with sound and
with our attention to same.
Lastly, it’s just very, very well made – that sort of still amibience is just so difficult to capture
effectively because digital video can be very unforgiving in that context – interlacing
& pretty much any sort of compression can generate horribly visible artefects.
Here, even in this pretty compressed version, there are none -it just looks like a
transparent window to a small epiphany…
Hats off then, three times.
David Byrne Bike Cam NYC (2007, 17MB, 4:55 min.)
David Byrne biked to Town Hall for his
Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority (50’s, 15MB, 1:35 min.)
Stumble upon this funny 50
Everyone I can think of who has died (2009, 49MB, 6:24 min.)
Edward Picot is writing the names of all the
people he can think of who have died onto leaves,
then floating them down a stream near his house.
The Path (2009, 40MB, 2:34 min.)
“Probably the best independent game ever made” – Christopher Lim, “The Business Times”
“The Path is not a game, it is art” – Erwin Bergervoet, “Gamer.nl”
Trailer for “The Path“, by Tale of Tales.
Proust – The Interview (2009, 75MB, 5:52 min.)
The Interview (AKA Proust Questionnaire) MTAA.
more vids here.
Deadlock (1970, 7.7MB, 46 sec)
from Roland Klick’s Deadlock with music by Can.
Listen to the title track here.
What a remarkable film.
What a remarkable band.
