RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, THE VISITORS, 2012
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s nine-screen installation The Visitors was filmed at the historic Rokeby farm in upstate New York. Kjartansson invited a group of friends to stay with him for a week at the ethereal, yet decrepit estate, culminating in the ambitious performance…
JULIANA HUXTABLE, THERE ARE CERTAIN FACTS THAT CANNOT BE DISPUTED, 2015
Artist, writer, and nightlife impresario Juliana Huxtable presents her new performance There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed, co-commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art and Performa, which highlights her evocative use of language and written text…
JEN DENIKE, FLAG GIRLS, 2007
Jen DeNike's video Flag Girls features six women wrapped in hand-sewn flags. As the video loop plays, the women unwrap themselves to reveal their nude bodies…
TINA TAKEMOTO, LOOKING FOR JIRO, 2011
Looking for Jiro is a queer meditation on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II…
TOURMALINE, ATLANTIC IS A SEA OF BONES, 2017
Atlantic is a Sea of Bones is a short film drawing from the Lucille Clifton poem of the same name that follows Egyptt LaBejia, an NYC based performer through the 80s, 90s, and 2000's in NYC…
XANDRA IBARRA, SPICTACLE II: LA TORTILLERA, 2014
La Tortillera was developed as a live performance in 2004. The performance was later archived for camera in 2014. In Spictacle II: La Tortillera takes on her own racial bondage to hot sauce, tacos, and demographic panic in “Tortillera”…
ANA MENDIETA, SILUETA SERIES, 1973-1978
Her Silueta (Silhouette) series (begun in 1973) used a typology of abstracted feminine forms, through which she hoped to access an omnipresent female force…
MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND ULAY, AAA-AAA, 1978
Abramovic and Ulay kneel in front of each other, gazing into each other's eyes. Initially, they produce the same monotonous sound, but gradually a contest develops: who can yell, scream and yowl the loudest and longest…
YOKO ONO, CUT PIECE, 1964
Ono gave her first performance of Cut Piece (1964) in Kyotoin July 1964. She sat motionless on stage in a traditional Japanese feminine position, and invited members of the audience to cut a piece of her clothing away…
ANNIE SPRINKLE, POST PORN MODERNIST, 1993
Post Porn Modernist chronicles Annie Sprinkle's careers as a sex worker, pro-sex activist, and artist. Sprinkle begins with her transformation from Ellen Steinberg to Annie Sprinkle, an act that prompted her sexual revolution…
CAROLEE SCHNEEMAN, INTERIOR SCROLL, 1975/77
The message I read for Interior Scroll is from the feminist texts in Kitch's Last Meal. The image occurred as a drawing; this image seemed to have to do with the power and possession of naming-the movement from interior thought to external signification, and the reference to an uncoiling serpent, to actual information (like ticker tape, rainbow, Torah in the Ark, chalice, choir loft, plumb line, bell tower, the umbilicus, and tongue)…
YO MY CRACKA, M. LAMAR, 2017
Yo My Cracka, was composed as a part of Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche which has been presented as an evening length multimedia performance for voice and piano as well as an album…