Video Art
On storytelling, seriality, and a shared love of clichés.
Mediating art, space, and the self on screens.
Building empathy through simulated pickup artistry.
Portraiture as a form of mapping.
Lost in history’s labyrinth.
The effects of incarceration.
Shifting between a Marie Antoinette wig, a fake mustache, and a bald cap, the sculptor and filmmaker plays all three corners of a love triangle in After the fire is gone.
An exhibition exploring forms of repetition and difference.
Uncovering the artist’s innovations and legacies.
Embracing boredom and creative constraints, Katchadourian tells of in-flight artwork and other conceptual projects.
Upcoming shows, retrospectives, and museum openings highlighted by Maika Pollack, Ratik Asokan, Alex Zafiris, Gideon Jacobs, Michael Barron, Wendy Vogel, Zack Hatfield, and Legacy Russell
Like his older compatriot Mark Leckey, Atkins deftly utilizes syncopated montages of sounds and filmic images to create disturbing and disorienting virtual realities.
Taking cinema’s portrayal of artists personally
“Moving bodies generate this system. They create, supposedly, some justification to play this market out.”
Concerned primarily with Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, where she lives and works, her works defy categorization or any simple read. Rather, they are rich entanglements of place, history, and time.
Early film, nineteenth-century science fiction, and experimental musical languages serve a young artist’s explorations of race and our political present.
With charmingly deadpan humor, Aki Sasamoto’s performances and installations tease out just how small human existence is; despite our more evolved intellect, advanced motor skills, and ability to read and appreciate Proust, we’re all basically rats at heart, just with the added bonus of self-reflection and a love for rosé.
