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Videodrome 8/29/14

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And this concludes … Videodrome

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 29, 2014August 29, 2014

Thanks for watching our daylong stream of videos from across the internet.

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Irma Vep as a Space Between the Artist and Her Creation

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 29, 2014August 29, 2014

Artist Michelle Handelman has taken the epic 7-hour film Les Vampires about a bizarre underground criminal gang and transformed into “Irma Vep, The Last Breath,” a video project that is about “living in the shadows, criminal anxiety and the relationship between the artist and her creation, both fictional and real.”

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The Love Songs of Saddam Hussein

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 29, 2014August 29, 2014

Commissioned by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the songs in Adel Abidin’s “Three Love Songs” (2010) are transformed into sinister pop music videos that use attractive blonde women as conduits for the fallen dictator’s propaganda.

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The Mediated Reality of Harun Farocki

by Jillian Steinhauer August 29, 2014August 29, 2014

Last month, German filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki died at the age of 70. Farocki made films that were unabashedly political yet remarkably reserved.

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William Wegman and Robert Breer’s New Wave

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 29, 2014August 31, 2014

In the 1980s, the dream of going pop — as in pop culture rather than Pop art — in the art wold was raging strong, and many people thought it practically imminent.

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Baudelaire, Michael Jackson, and Modernism

by Jillian Steinhauer August 29, 2014August 31, 2014

One of my favorite pieces included in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem earlier this year was Adam Pendleton’s “Lorraine O’Grady: A Portrait” (2012).

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Saul Bass Gets to the Heart of Creativity

by Jillian Steinhauer August 29, 2014September 2, 2014

Why do we make art? Why does anyone create anything?

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Better Than Performance Art

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 29, 2014

On Wednesday, artist Jayson Musson tweeted “lol this performance art scene in She’s All That is better than real performance art,” and his 84 characters opened the flood gates of memory for me.

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Taylor Swift as Microcosm for the Art World

by Jillian Steinhauer August 29, 2014September 2, 2014

Do you ever feel like the art world is sort of like high school, or life at a small liberal arts college? Or maybe just a blowout party you’re not actually sure you were invited to, but you decided to show up anyway?

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Welcome to Videodrome

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 29, 2014August 28, 2014

Every year, Hyperallergic pays tribute to David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983), the classic sci-fi thriller, with a 12-hour journey through videos we discover littering the internet.

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