Bill Viola (b.1951)
Jul
The Passing 1991
B/W 56 Min.USA
Bill Viola reworks the story of Christ’s death and resurrection in a modern medium but his pieces are dripping in classical heritage. He plays with Renaissance symbolism, drawing directly from early Renaissance compositions and poses - the original paintings on display may be less visceral but are much more mesmerising.
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Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
Jun
- Rhinoceros (1965) A animated version of Ionesco’s tale, a play on the theme of conformity.- Ubu and the Great Gidouille- Labyrinth
Jan Lenica's checkered career has encompassed excursions into music, architecture, poster-making, costume design, children's book illustration, and all aspects of filmmaking. It is, however, for his animation that he is best known, particularly his collage and "cutout" films, which have their roots in the art of Max Ernst and John Heartfield. The films have influenced the work of Jan Švankmajer and Terry Gilliam.
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Pina Bausch (1940-2009)
Mai
Die Klage Der Kaiserin by Pina Bausch
"This first film by choreographer Pina Bausch reflects her method of working as developed with the Wuppertal Theatre of Dance during the 1973/74 season. The film does not tell a story, but is made up of various scenes put together as a collage with scenes set in different locations, such as the woods and fields around Wuppertal, the city centre, the suspension railway, a carpet shop, a greenhouse and the rehearsal room. The futility of human activity and the search for love make up the film's central theme set against the strains of a Silician funeral march. Filmed on location in Wuppertal, Germany, between October 1987 and April 1989.
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Amon Düül
Mai
Amon Düül / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Niklashauser Fart
Amon Düüls appearance in the 1970 Fassbinder movie Niklahauser Fart which connects a 15th century peasants rebellion with the political struggles of the 1960ties. Fassbinder (in modern clothes representing the present) discusses the chances of a revolution with one of the peasant rebels
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Amon Düüls appearance in the 1970 Fassbinder movie Niklahauser Fart which connects a 15th century peasants rebellion with the political struggles of the 1960ties. Fassbinder (in modern clothes representing the present) discusses the chances of a revolution with one of the peasant rebels
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Gil Scott Heron
Mai
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1971)
Official promo for Gil Scott Heron's collected lyrics and poems, Now and Then.
Produced by Peter Collingridge and directed by Julian House.
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Official promo for Gil Scott Heron's collected lyrics and poems, Now and Then.
Produced by Peter Collingridge and directed by Julian House.
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ENDO
Mai
Producer: Sara Tirelli, Valeria Palermo, Alberto Mussolini
ENDO takes the notion of the black-boxing of technology to a conceptual critique and poetic sculptural interpretation. We are offered an object â a black-cased digital recorder, equipped with various sensors â allegedly registering data from its surroundings such as sound, camera image, GPS coordinates, brightness, air pressure, humidity, and temperature on a terabyte hard drive. Once the hard drive is saturated, recording stops, and the data becomes enclosed within the object, transforming it into a monumental static artifact. ENDO is a data devouring device which yields nothing in return, and hence runs contrary to the idea that the recording and storage of data will produce additional information, or insight, or even in a time of data profiling: security. As viewers we are deprived of prying into, let alone understanding, the workings of the device before us. The maxim in data we trust is firmly put to the test. What is really happening with this information, if anything at all, becomes a matter of speculation.
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ENDO takes the notion of the black-boxing of technology to a conceptual critique and poetic sculptural interpretation. We are offered an object â a black-cased digital recorder, equipped with various sensors â allegedly registering data from its surroundings such as sound, camera image, GPS coordinates, brightness, air pressure, humidity, and temperature on a terabyte hard drive. Once the hard drive is saturated, recording stops, and the data becomes enclosed within the object, transforming it into a monumental static artifact. ENDO is a data devouring device which yields nothing in return, and hence runs contrary to the idea that the recording and storage of data will produce additional information, or insight, or even in a time of data profiling: security. As viewers we are deprived of prying into, let alone understanding, the workings of the device before us. The maxim in data we trust is firmly put to the test. What is really happening with this information, if anything at all, becomes a matter of speculation.
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Mai
Screen Test
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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Adam Pertofsky
Mai
The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
This is a short film that is archived and presented at The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee. It is a documentary on Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, witness to Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
It was nominated for a academy award in 2009 under the category of documentary short.
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This is a short film that is archived and presented at The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee. It is a documentary on Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, witness to Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
It was nominated for a academy award in 2009 under the category of documentary short.
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Digital Slaves
Mai
Video by Valère Terrier
Digital Slaves have worked on several installations for Visual System exhibition.
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Digital Slaves have worked on several installations for Visual System exhibition.
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Logorama
Mai
This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.
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Casey Neistat
Mai
The Ethics of Stealing a Bike
between a movie in a movie and a performance with a subtle irony „new mediasmile“, Casey Neistat videos are a kind of conceptual brilliant dilettantism. On this movie he mixes different layer`s of perception into a state of question, what kind of ethic and social behavior are below pictures, words and the common value system.
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between a movie in a movie and a performance with a subtle irony „new mediasmile“, Casey Neistat videos are a kind of conceptual brilliant dilettantism. On this movie he mixes different layer`s of perception into a state of question, what kind of ethic and social behavior are below pictures, words and the common value system.
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Gypsy Rose Lee Remembers Burlesque
Apr
According to Wikipedia,
Gypsy Rose Lee was born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington in 1911, although her mother later shaved three years off both of her daughters' ages. She was initially known by her middle name, Louise… Louise's singing and dancing talents were insufficient to sustain the act without [her sister] June. Eventually, it became apparent that Louise could make money in burlesque, which earned her legendary status as a classy and witty strip tease artist. Her innovations were an almost casual strip style, compared to the herky-jerky styles of most burlesque strippers (she emphasized the "tease" in "striptease") and she brought a sharp sense of humor into her act as well. She became as famous for her onstage wit as for her strip style, and—changing her stage name to Gypsy Rose Lee—she became one of the biggest stars of Minsky's Burlesque, where she performed for four years.
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Elmar Guantes (b.1962)
Apr
Motion, a film by Birgit Nagengast
is a short clip about some guys , a car and a nighttrip through munich. i could also say it`s in boulder colarado,- it doesnt matter. Based on the vibrating sound of Elmar Guantes in comparison of the extra ordinary pictures slips the scene in a bemused athmosphaire of something inchoate happen. The clip promise aimless intention of an expectant nothing, means everything could be for the birds, it depends on me ... .
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Jeff Mission (b.1963)
Apr
Swim
A live video feedback performance by VJ Jeff Mission. The smooth, colorful waves in this piece were generated by chaining together two pieces of equipment - an Edirol V4 video mixer, and a JVC JX-C7 Video Corrector - in a continuous loop, then making incremental adjustments to the settings on the JX-C7. The result is a digital organism, composed of pure feedback, that can be manipulated at will. The technique used in this piece is one of the core components of his live performances.
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Wolfgang Flatz (b.1952)
Apr
A consistent example of bodyart was the flatz performance called guilty-not guilty, shown at 15.01.2010 at Kunstraum Tirol. there where some excited news on europe culture tv channels and some of the visitors of the show act like „aunt erna carry her treated dog“ ... .
anyway, Flatz well known for his strange bodyperformance`s shows how to get out with simple acting the most possible result. It`s like the other side of delicate works such for an exampel Valie Export, Orlan or „Patina de Prey“ (Hunter Reynolds). even the work of Bob Flanagan is more controvers in the meaning of gender discurse, but in the sense of a retrospect body expierence he become quit important. MdT
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anyway, Flatz well known for his strange bodyperformance`s shows how to get out with simple acting the most possible result. It`s like the other side of delicate works such for an exampel Valie Export, Orlan or „Patina de Prey“ (Hunter Reynolds). even the work of Bob Flanagan is more controvers in the meaning of gender discurse, but in the sense of a retrospect body expierence he become quit important. MdT
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Mark Lewis (b.1969)
Apr
Listen in as UK-based artist Mark Lewis, Canada’s official representative at the 53rd Venice Biennale, discusses his films and plans for his installation with Barbara Fischer, commissioner of the Canadian pavilion. This talk was recorded as part of Canadian Art’s Room with a View program in Toronto, November 2008.
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Romy Haag (b.1951)
Mrz
Talks about her legendary Transvestiteclub in Berlin Schöneberg, the time during Berlin of the 70`s, her relationship to David Bowie.
Another famous club during that Berlin decade was the "Dschungel" in Nürnbergerstrasse near KaDW and "Andere Ufer" in Hauptstrasse one of the first gaybars at that time, close by Bowie`s flat.
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Another famous club during that Berlin decade was the "Dschungel" in Nürnbergerstrasse near KaDW and "Andere Ufer" in Hauptstrasse one of the first gaybars at that time, close by Bowie`s flat.
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Entropy
Mrz
A short film made for the Transmedialities course at the University of Amsterdam in 2006, the assignment being to produce an adaptation in the broadest sense of the word.
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Yvette Chauviré (b.1917)
Mrz
"The Dying Swan" danced by Yvette Chauviré
A Film by Dominique Delouche
A Cannes Film Festival selection, this portrait of Frances greatest ballerina (originally titled Yvette Chauviré: Une ètoile pour l'example) was also included in the Film Society of Lincoln Centers 2008 acclaimed series devoted to the ballet films of Dominique Delouche.
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A Film by Dominique Delouche
A Cannes Film Festival selection, this portrait of Frances greatest ballerina (originally titled Yvette Chauviré: Une ètoile pour l'example) was also included in the Film Society of Lincoln Centers 2008 acclaimed series devoted to the ballet films of Dominique Delouche.
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Ryoichi Kurokawa (b.1978)
Mrz
cimatics 17/11
Ryoichi Kurokawa is an audiovisual artist living in Osaka (Japan). His works take on multiple forms like screening works, recordings, installation and live performance. He composes time based sculpture with digital generated materials and field recorded sources, and the minimal and the complexitiescoexist there. He accepts sound and imagery as a unit not as separately, and constructs very exquisite and precise computer based works with the audiovisual language. That shortens mutual distance, the reciprocity and the synchronization of sound and visual composition.
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Rich Ragsdale
Feb
dance/movement test for experimental film
is a short intense work with an interesting combination of traditional dance moving scenes (expressionismus, butho, artaud, ect) and an atmospheric sound.
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Andrew Huang
Feb
Doll Face
A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.
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BluBlu
Feb
MUTO
the new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
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the new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
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Ingrid Caven
Feb
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Feb
Virgine Marchand
Feb
The Little Mermaid
filmed in 2002 Mathilde as the mermaid, Patrice Marchand and Jean-Louis Costes as the surgeon, thanks to the Woman to accepted to be filmed!
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Nancy Spero
Dez
Becoming an Artist
A pioneer of feminist art, Nancy Spero's work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War.
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Daito Manabe
Dez
Electric Stimulus to Face -Test4
Daito Manabe stimulates facial muscles with small electric pulses, synced to music.
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Yasushi Noguchi, Hideyuki Ando
Dez
Watch Me!
Eye-responsive Installation 2009
Watch Me! is an experimental project dedicated to documenting social bind (defined below) by intervening in a public space. It watches the different behavior of peoples eyes using a robot bear as an unusual event. The project was finally presented as an installation.
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Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam and Theo Watson
Dez
Augmented Sand Sculpture 2009
Artist : Theo Watson
Introduction of the new Dutch Filmmuseum's building. Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam teamed up with acclaimed video artist Theo Watson and created a unique interactive sand sculpture. Gone are the days of blueprints and artists impressions as the event was to launch the beginning of construction for The Filmmuseums future premises, and the 6×5 meter sculpture replicated the new building, due to open in 2011.
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Martha Rosler
Dez
Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)
From A to Z, Rosler "shows and tells" the ingredients of the housewife's day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary with movements more samurai than suburban. Rosler's slashing gesture as she forms the letters of the alphabet in the air with a knife and fork, is a rebel gesture, punching through the "system of harnessed subjectivity" from the inside out.
"I was concerned with something like the notion of Ôlanguage speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity."
Martha Rosler
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Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T): Nine Evenings
Dez
Robert Rauschenberg John Cage Deborah Hayes David Tudor Robert Whitman Oyvind Fhalstrom
Robert Rauschenberg
Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations.
The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells.
For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations.
The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells.
For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.
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Virgine Marchant
Dez
FOODFUCK IN NEW YORK/NICE AND ROME
An excerpt from the fiction film : FOODFUCK IN NEW YORK/NICE AND ROME, filmed in 2002. Tommy Rogers is the principal actor, poet musician and a performer in the film.a film by Virginie Marchand
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Frankie Teardrop
Nov
Song by Suicide
Video by Walter Robinson,
Edit DeAk & Paul Dougherty.
A film-video hybrid that combines superimposed projector manipulations and high-end video post-production, finished in 1978.
Included in MOMA permanent collection and Rolling Stone's "Book of Rock Video."
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Ah Pook Is Here (1994
Nov
Directed by Philip Hunt
Writing credits
William S. Burroughs
Music from the album "William S. Burroughs - Dead City Radio"
Track 4 - "Ah Pook The Destroyer / Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story"
Music By, Performer - John Cale
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Writing credits
William S. Burroughs
Music from the album "William S. Burroughs - Dead City Radio"
Track 4 - "Ah Pook The Destroyer / Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story"
Music By, Performer - John Cale
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Shakespeare's Hamlet - 'To be or not to be...'
Nov
"To be or not to be..." A short edited to Kenneth Branagh's reading
of the big Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
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of the big Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
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The Unfolding Opium Poppy
Nov
Black and White silent film with music for Violin and Piano. Composed by David Soldier, performed by Rebecca Cherry, Film excerpts by Jennifer Reeves, Editing by Rebecca Cherry
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Joseph Cornell
Nov
At night by Torch and Spear (1940's)
Joseph Cornell's enigmatic collage By Night With Torch and Spear (1940s?) may have been unknown to anybody but the artist himself before it was discovered, years after his death, within a cache of artifacts bequeathed to Anthology film archives. it was given its title posthumously based on a card that flashes at its end. sound track provided by john zorn. During the first Surrealist exhibition in New York 1936 he premiered a film made from splicing together existing film stock he had found & collected. Salvador Dalí, present at its first screening, was outraged, claiming he had just had the same idea of applying collage to film. He remarked told he should stick to making boxes and stop making films. Traumatized, Cornell rarely showed his films there after.
Most of his art works were boxed assemblages created from found objects, simple boxes, glass-fronted, with arranged collections of photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac combining the austerity of Constructivism with the fantasy of Surrealism. Many boxes, are interactive and are meant to be handled. he would create poetry from the commonplace. In the 1950s and 1960s, He hired a series of young assistants, including Stan Brakhage, and Larry Jordan to help him organize his collection.
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Mike Kuchar
Nov
The Craven Sluck 1967
(formerly titled Madonna)No art form demands as much spontaneous, imaginative improvisation as low-budget filmmaking, and no American low-budget filmmakers are as imaginative as George Kuchar and his twin brother Mike. Major figures in the American Underground film movement of the ’sixties, they are the acknowledged pioneers of the camp/pop aesthetic that would influence practically all who came after them, from Warhol and Waters to Vadim and Lynch. That influence is still being felt. (Source by Jack Stevenson)
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Fashion Swimsuits 1952
Nov
West Coast Knitting Mills is launched by Fred Cole in 1923 and changed it's name to Cole of California in 1941. In 1925, Fred Cole, a silent film actor, created a swimsuit line that set the bar for all others to follow. His suits were gorgeous yet modest, comfortable yet classy, and made any woman, regardless of her size, feel great in a swimsuit. Fred Coles designs lay claim to many of the firsts in swimwear, including the backless and strapless swimsuits, the short overskirt, the boy short, the first true tank suit, and the cover-up skirt. His suits gained such acclaim that super stars like Marilyn Monroe, Rene Russo and Farah Fawcett were photographed in them. Swimming beauty Esther Williams became the official face of the Cole of California advertising campaign. Christian Dior, the worlds most celebrated designer, even paired up with Fred Cole to create his one and only swimwear line in 1955. The company was purchased by Kayser Roth in the early 1960s. In 1982 Anne Cole begins to design a line which launches as the Anne Cole Collection. The company is sold a couple of more times and finally combines with Catalina in 1993 to form Catalina Cole.
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Frieder Butzmann
Nov
Concrete TV
Okt
"Never hard enough"
Concrete TV is a NYC-based public access show by Ron Rocheleau that combines sex, violence and art.
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Catherine Renaud Baret
Okt
dans les jupons (2006)
Under the petticoat the ties binding mother and child. The eternal drama about that relationship.
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Thorsten Fleisch (b.1972)
Okt
Gestalt (2003)
DV, 5:20 minutesFour-dimensional quaternions (fractals) are visualized by projecting them into three-dimensional space. Instead of modeling objects of human imagination the realm of mathematics is explored. Only the variables of one formula (x[n+1]=x[n]^p-c) were changed. It took me about a year to get an idea of the transformations and shapes which could be expressed by this formula. Almost another year was needed to render the sequences which I decided to use.
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Swinging London
Okt
It's so far out it's straight down
A look at embryonic counter culture capers in swinging London 1967
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Chris Barr (b. 1980)
Okt
17 Minutes is a performance and video blog project. It is estimated that someone commits suicide every 17 minutes. For each performance I spend 17 minutes standing outdoors next to a tree. At the end of this 17 minutes I fall to the earth. This ritual offers a place of reflection, the time between. It also deals with the specific circumstance of my own brother's suicide and as a reenactment aims to be reminder of the life with which I am engaged
Every 17 minutes, someone commits suicide in the United States. Every 43 seconds, someone attempts one.
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Every 17 minutes, someone commits suicide in the United States. Every 43 seconds, someone attempts one.
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Chicasblue
Okt
Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968)
Okt
Pilgrimage to Miao Feng Shan
Between 1924-1927, Sidney D. Gamble made three trips to Miao Feng Shan (Marvelous Peak Mountain), a popular Daoist pilgrimage site.
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Ken Jacobs (b. 1933)
Okt
Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise Ch.3
released on tzadik 2004 the nervous magic lantern is a late optical invention, technically possible long before film or even photography, for projection of images that move through impossible changes in a vast illusionary depth, visible to even a single eye. music: john zorn(&ikue mori)
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Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
Sep
Johnny Depp reading the letters he received from Hunter S. Thompson during his work on the Fear and Loathing Movie.
Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Babette Mangolte (b. 1941)
Sep
Watermotor (1978)
Babette Mangolte
(b. 1941 Montmorot, France; lives New York City)
Water Motor, 1978
16mm black-and-white film, 7:55 minutes, silent
In 1978, Babette Mangolte made a film of famed choreographer Trisha Brown dancing a hyperkinetic solo called Water Motor. The first portion was filmed in "real time," at 24 frames per second, and the second at half-speed, or 48 frames per second. ...
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Fred Astaire (1899-1987)
Sep
Bojangles of Harlem from Swing Time (1936)
The dancing in Swing Time is some of the best of all the Astaire/Rogers pairings, and Astaire's homage to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is divine. ...
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Olafur Eliasson (b.1967)
Sep
Playing with space and light
In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception.
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Hilary Harris (1929-1999)
Sep
Nine Variations on a Dance Theme (1966)
13 min, color, sound
This prize-winning film captures dancer Bettie de Jong, a longtime member of the Paul Taylor Company, as she performs a single dance theme numerous times. ...
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Oliver Herring (b. 1964)
Sep
Nathan (Hotel Room CT) (2007)
5:30, color, sound
The subject of Nathan answered an ad to join Oliver Herring for some spontaneous art making sessions, a mode of working adopted by the artist in 2001. Nathan is by definition a solo, but it's also a pas de deux between dancer and camera.
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Kembra Pfahler
Sep
Cornella; The Story of a Burning Bush(1985)
Film-as-performance from actress, artist, filmmaker, and co-founder of rock band Kembra Pfahler The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Blac
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Joachim Koester
Sep
Three Dots & Sandra of the Tulip House or How To Live in a Free State (2001)
Matthew Buckingham and Joachim Koester's video installation Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, 2001, is a ruminative work inspired by the complex history of Christiania, a famous anarchistic community established in Copenhagen in 1971. Divided between large freestanding screens--each accompanied by its own unidirectional speaker to minimize the discordant buildup of sound--Sandra of the Tuliphouse comprises five independent twelve-to-twenty-minute video loops that may be watched in any order, in part or (by the more determined visitor) from beginning to end. Making its belated New York debut at the Kitchen, Buckingham and Koester's project feels oddly removed from real time, its ostensible subject an anachronistic curiosity repositioned as a locus for open-ended reflection.
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Sebastian Horsley (b.1962)
Aug
Die Tödliche Doris
Aug
Über-Mutti, Konzert 1983
Käthe Kruse (b.1958)
Wolfgang Müller (b.1957)
Nikolaus Utermöhlen (1958-1996)
Founded in West Berlin, Die Tödliche Doris one of the most influential creators of conceptual, avant-garde music and performance art in the 1980s.
The Deadly Doris (translated) were central to the new atonal music scene in 1980s West Berlin. In 1981 they performed at the Festival of Ingenious Dilletantes. Attempting to ignore the division between high art and subculture, amateurism and dilettantism were celebrated as democratic forces against both the capitalist system and GDR socialism.
The group created records, tapes, films, performances, and exhibited their work widely including at documenta 8 in Kassel.
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Poemfield No. 2
Aug
Poemfield No. 2 1966, 5:40 min, color, sound
Computer animation by Stan VanDerBeek and Kenneth Knowlton, made at Bell Laboratories in 1966.
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Dagie Brundert (b.1962)
Aug
Nightlight
Dagie Brundert, a german filmmaker realised a wide ranche of super 8 movie`s over the last 20 years. Based on narrative simplicity, she weave`s a complex visual pattern into a state of permanent, playful irritation.
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Aug
The Way Things Go (1987)
Inside a warehouse, artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss build an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items. Using fire, water, gravity, and chemistry they create a mind-blowing chain reaction of physical and chemical interactions and precisely crafted chaos.
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Banksy
Aug
The Punking of Paris Hilton (2006)
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head. A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK. She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in."
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Harun Farocki (b.1944)
Aug
Images of the World and the Inscription of War", 1989
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Haroun Farouki is one of the most important, contemborary Filmmaker, Artist, Media Theorist from Germany.
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Zubi Zuva
Aug
X Suite Europe Live undated
Zubi Zuva is a freewheeling a cappella vocal trio, running the gamut from Gregorian Chant and Buddhist Shomyo to doo-wop, hardcore and looney tunes -- of course, as usual, all in a language of Yoshida's invention. Essential listening for those interested in the outer limits of weirdness." Features Yoshida Tatsuya (alto voice), Shibasaki Yukifumi (tenor voice) & Takahashi Hideki (baritone voice).
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Survival Research Laboratories
Aug
Virtues of Negative Fascination (1985-86)
Runtime: 75mins
"Virtues of Negative Fascination" is a documentary covering the performance activities of Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Pauline, Matt Heckert and Eric Werner, from 1985-1986.
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Nicolas Provost
Jul
By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance.
"My field of interest is to analyze and question the phenomenon of cinema, its various elements, its influence and conventional rules. My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. That said, it's all about love."
—Nicolas Provost
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"My field of interest is to analyze and question the phenomenon of cinema, its various elements, its influence and conventional rules. My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. That said, it's all about love."
—Nicolas Provost
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Peter Liechti (b.1951)
Jul
Scene from a movie by Peter Liechti about voice crack,
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the Swiss Noise and Experimental Pioneers.
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Ken Jacobs, John Zorn, Ikue Mori
Jul
Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise Ch.3
Released on Tzadik 2004
The nervous magic lantern is a late optical invention, technically possible long before film or even photography, for projection of images that move through impossible changes in a vast illusionary depth, visible to even a single eye.
Music: John Zorn & Ikue Mori
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Peter Kubelka
Jul
Unsere Afrikareise
Österreich, 1966. Regie: Peter Kubelka. Schnitt: Peter Kubelka. Farbe. 13 Min.
“UNSERE AFRIKAREISE is about the richest, most articulate, and most compressed film I have ever seen. I have seen it four times and I am going to see it many, many times more, and the more I see it, the more I see in it. Kubelka’s film is one of cinema’s few masterpieces and a work of such great perfection that it forces one to re-evaluate everything that one knew about cinema. The incredible artistry of this man, his incredible patience. (He worked on UNSERE AFRIKAREISE for five years; the film is 12 and a half minutes long.) His methods of working (he learned by heart 14 hours of tapes and three hours of film, frame by frame), and the beauty of his accomplishment makes the rest of us look like amateurs.” – Jonas Mekas
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Philip Glass and Robert Wilson
Jul
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
Documentary, Interview`s about this legendary opera, sound and choreographie
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Balthus
Jul
Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola
Documentary
A wonderful poetic documentation about one of the greatest painters of the last century.
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William K. L. Dickson
Jun
The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
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Yves Klein
Jun
Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings
Filmed in 1960, Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings consists of two art performances. Musicians play music as Yves Klein directs young women to imprint their blue-painted-bodies onto canvas. The second performance involves the women helping to create an outline of themselves before a torch is used to scorch the canvas.
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Derek Jarman
Jun
Art of Mirrors
Director Derek Jarman explores his alchemical fascination with the themes of light and reflection in this short film from 1973.
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Bill Viola (b.1951)
Jun
The Reflecting Pool
The American video artist Bill Viola focuses here on a pool and a man frozen mid-air above it.
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Jenny Holzer
Jun
Jenny Holzer discusses her difficult relationship to writing during the installation of the exhibition "PROTECT PROTECT" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Featured works include "Red Yellow Looming" (2004), "Lustmord" (2007), "Protect Protect deep purple" (2007), and "For Chicago" (2008), among others. The exhibition remains on view in Chicago through February 1st, and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in March.
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Featured works include "Red Yellow Looming" (2004), "Lustmord" (2007), "Protect Protect deep purple" (2007), and "For Chicago" (2008), among others. The exhibition remains on view in Chicago through February 1st, and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in March.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Jun
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous.
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Rachel Whiteread
Jun
In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London's Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.
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Jun
Installation + Performance Concept.
Virginie Marchand dances with Kazuo Ohno for his 99th birthday at his home in Yokohama, Japan
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Yasuchika Konno
Jun
A performance by Yasuchika Konno held at Tokyo Gallery on February 29th, 2007, for the opening of Riichi Yamaguchi's solo exhibition "A sense of de-tach-ment"
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JENNIFER WEST
Jun
Rainbow Party on 70MM Film
JENNIFER WEST Rainbow Party on 70MM Film (70MM film leader kissed with lipstick & impressed with teeth marks by Jwest and her former students: Mariah Csepanyi, Maggie Romano & Roxana Eslemiah), 2008, 39 seconds
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Chris Burden
Jun
Shoot
Chris Burden's conceptual performance from the early 1970s. Shot on Super-8, 16mm film, and half-inch video. Guided by the artist's comments on both the works and the documentative process.«In this instant 1 was a sculpture.» Chris Burden means the moment his arm was pierced by a bullet from a (copperjacket) 22 long rifle. Actually, when a friend pulled the trigger on November 19, 1971 at a distance of 13 feet, the intent was only to graze the artist's arm. «Shoot» was considered one of the most spectacular performances of the seventies, provoking journalists to ask, «Will he survive 30?» Such remarks turned Burden into a living myth but they also delineated the controversy that has always attended his work. The controversy surrounding «Shoot» was fuelled by the fantasies and fears triggered by shooting and gunshot wounds. Films like «Full Metal Jacket» or «Bultets over Broadway» indicate an enduring interest in the folkloric tradition of westerns, war and gangster movies. With the escalation of the Vietnam War, the subject matter penetrated the minds of the American public no longer as fiction but as fact in the shape of body bags, invalids and veterans from Vietnam. This exerted a significant influence on the daring of Burden's experimental piece.
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