Art
How peter campus Changed the Video Art Game
“Three Transitions” from 1973 depicts a slippery reality that thwarts the notion of video as an inherently “documentary” medium.
Video
Art
Alan Michelson’s Place-Keeping Art
For almost three decades, Alan Michelson has attended to place, histories, and futures, and the lived realities of Indigenous peoples in North America.
Art
The Many Voices of Raven Chacon’s While Hissing
Amplifying the voices of Native women, the artist issues a collective call to resistance through visual art, music, and community.
Art
Lutz Bacher’s Elliptical Cosmologies
Her posthumous exhibition Aye! makes space for gaps in understanding and sonic vibrations to cultivate cosmic wonder.
Art
Sexual Liberation From Pasolini to Bruce LaBruce
LaBruce’s The Visitor shows that physical desire can lead the way to something more as his characters redefine themselves in new, potentially radical ways.
Art
Mona Hatoum’s Videos Make a Presence From Absence
Hatoum’s early videos confront viewers with the body of the artist as a synecdoche for the collective trauma experienced by the dispossessed
Art
Kenneth Tam Excavates the History of Chinese Labor in the American West
The artist’s works resonate in West Texas, where the story of dehumanized and exploited migrant laborers is tangible and ever-present.
Art
The Horror and Banality of American Racism
Christy Chan’s Who’s Coming to Save You? makes clear the perpetual nature of American bigotry.
Opportunities
A Photography and Video Triennial Is Coming to NYC in 2023
The Museum of the City of New York is inviting artists from NYC and beyond to submit to an open call for works.
Film
Arthur Jafa’s Medley of Joy Everlasting Versus Hell on Earth
The video installation akingdoncomethas is an epic montage of sermons and performances from Black churches.
Art
A Chronicling of Contaminated Indigenous Land Around the Globe
The work of 36 artists, most of whom identify as Indigenous, is centered around the impact of nuclear testing and uranium mining, and their attendant contamination.
Art
Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Jenkins’s videos do more than talk back to a racist screen.