Conceptual Videos
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Pop Mantra Video Documentation #4 (2008, 51.7MB, 5:17 min) Pop Mantra Video Documentation #7 (2008, 50.5MB, 5:41 min) I like admire Curt Cloninger for his steadfastness of belief in both his religion his artistic work. He s also one of the best writers about new media around at the moment. In both theory practice he s curious, inventive, knowledgable, quirky and passionate. Unlike many in this sphere he s also not afraid to think aloud in public, to take risks. Even, (quelle horreur!), to risk appearing uncool. Recently he s been making work away from the web, some of it performative very interestingly so. Here ( I stress what you see here is the documentation, not the piece itself -a fine, but important, distinction) he repeatedly sings plays a single phrase from a popular song, in this instance Radiohead s Karma Police, for several hours. For me there are number of interesting resonances - minimalism, shamanism, the kinds of test that occur in many religious belief systems, a losing, dissolving of the self (In additon to the eponymous mantra ,there s an echo too, I think, of Sufism); but also there is the straightforward investigation*** of the mechanics of playing, of performing ( there s a fractal quality to the rather symmetric crystalline structure of popular song that makes this kind of extracting both possible immediately approachable -it s a world familiar enough to welcome us in.) The two extracts are from different ends of this marathon ( selecting typing that word just conjured another association - the dance marathons of the twenties thirties). I find this work fascinating. Fascinating affecting too. *** It s almost always a laughable misuse of the word to say investigation in an art-speak context. Here it seems correct natural.

Ludwig Poos Schwabe (2007, 36MB, 1:20 min) 1st Ping-Pong Lesson With Lucha Lib (2008, 31.2MB, 4:18 min) Even 18 years after the wall came down there s still a quite palpable residue of the great absurdist tradition that flourished under Stalinism in work being made in the former Eastern bloc. (Of course it goes back further, to Švejk to a certain Prague insurance clerk) Then, the deliberate crudeness, strangeness and in-your-faceness concealed the most serious of purposes. Of course there s still plenty to kick against everywhere, but one can t help wondering whether in work like this, Cheshire-cat-smile like, the attitude persists but a question lies over any substance. Of course there s no reason to demand high seriousness everywhere both these pieces are well made and amusing, though of the two I much prefer Ludwig, Lucha Lib being marred by a gratuitous and infantile sexism. I sound harsher than I mean to be. There is a lot to like in both pieces and I ll definitely be following future work from Pash with interest.

Pierre Huyghe #1 (NK, 2.69MB, 1:43 min) Pierre Huyghe #2 (NK, 1.59MB, 3:03 min) Pierre Huyghe #3 (NK, 2.33MB, 1:29 min) Pierre Huyghe #4 (NK, 2.29MB, 1:30 min) The last couple of times I ve been in Paris, I ve headed straight for the Pompidou Center to see Pierre Huyghe s wonderful This Is Not A Time for Dreaming. I wish we d got a copy of that here but you can see it in it s glorious entirety at the indispensable UbuWeb. There s some other great stuff by him there too. (And I m not even going to begin to say why I think it s great, - take a look!) As a kind of companion to that here re four short videos from the website of the PBS Art in the 21st Century series. What imagination! What vision! What a GSOH! What substance!

White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes (2008, 5.7MB, 2:28) Beautifully poignant music video from Fleet Foxes, directed by super talented Sean Pecknold.

Screen Kiss (clip) (2005, 3.1MB, 1:00 min.) Jillian is trying to make Billy Bob Thornton jealous, inserting herself into existing film clips and getting kisses from Daniel Day Lewis, Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp, and Billy Bob’s former wife - Angelina Jolie. Also check out Me and Billy Bob .

Author: tenthdimension Added: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:41:17 -0800 Duration: 236June 30, 2008 - Happy second anniversary! My animation and website went live the end of June 2006, and vaulted to popularity a few days later on July 3rd: first as a result of digg...

Author: tenthdimension Added: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:41:17 -0800 Duration: 236June 30, 2008 - Happy second anniversary! My animation and website went live the end of June 2006, and vaulted to popularity a few days later on July 3rd: first as a result of digg...

June 30, 2008 - Happy second anniversary! My animation and website went live the end of June 2006, and vaulted to popularity a few days later on July 3rd: first as a result of digg...

patafilm #609 (2008, 18.2MB, 4:27 min) No excuse offered or needed to show work by the Danish magician, Sam Renseiw. (when I called him the genius Dane here a little while ago, he wrote me, modestly demurring, but he is, Dear Reader, he is. Both) He says still imbricated in the subtle magic of simple things and situations , which is unusually accurate for an artist self assessment. Beautiful work.

Morgan Schwartz - Toaster (2001, 7.3MB, 3:30) From Morgan Schwartz.

Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study (2008, 82.2MB, 9:15 min) Rather wonderful piece from Shawn Kornhauser Brandon Joyce who seem to exist in a strange crevice between real Philadelphia well some other one. The layers of japes spoofery multiply exponentially but something near the truth, whatever that is, can be found here, here here. I think.

Lucia Nimcova - Exercise (2007, 40.5MB, 6:03) Outrageously funny video from Slovakian artist Lucia Nimcova. I m pretty sure not being able to understand the language makes this that much more endearing and amusing.

John Cage - 4:33 (2004, 47MB, 9:23 min) Wonderful video of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Lawrence Foster giving a performance of John Cage’s notorious/ provocative/seminal/epoch-making 4:33.

Robert Todd - Creation Myth (2007, 39.3MB, 5:46) Robert Todd is a master of 16mm. With an enormous catalog behind him and no sign of his work ceasing in the near future, Todd is slowly migrating his work onto his personal website. What a treat for us. This piece, Creation Myth, is one of several I will repost here over time, to show respect for these subtle, moving visions. Todd says: Love of sky, love of earth and air, with water helping us along form the backdrop to this reflection of life-essence and its evolution. And, full disclosure: Rob has previously been my professor, and I personally consider him one of the kindest, most knowledgeable and professional working artists under whom I have had the privilege of studying. I wish I had been better able to absorb his teachings at the time. He is truly a Bolex genius.

Author: justy Added: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:29:32 -0800 Duration: 108Pushing the barriers of conceptual art is all in a day's work for PhaZe, a conceptual artist who rejects all media.

Author: justy Added: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:29:32 -0800 Duration: 108Pushing the barriers of conceptual art is all in a day's work for PhaZe, a conceptual artist who rejects all media.

Pushing the barriers of conceptual art is all in a day's work for PhaZe, a conceptual artist who rejects all media.

Pushing the barriers of conceptual art is all in a day's work for PhaZe, a conceptual artist who rejects all media.Author: justy256 Tags: improv comedy conceptual art wanker wankers teddy bear Posted: 01 July 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Basement Jaxx - Red Alert (1999, 10.5MB, 3:42) Fatboy Slim - Don t Let The Man Get You Down (2003, 9MB, 3:08) Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me (2006, 12.2MB, 2:43) Three videos from the funky fresh Brian Beletic. (Why doesn t a music video director have a website?) In any case, Beletic s work spans the last decade, these posted in chronological order. Basement Jaxx s video is conceptual: what if music was illegal? Love the idea and execution. The track itself takes me back to my younger, raving days. Fatboy Slim and Lady Sovereign also should be proud of their Beletic vids. Both garner at least a few chuckles and some definite appreciation for the editing. Anyone else feeling good about the evolutions of UK electronic spins right about now? Cool. Me too. PS - He also works stateside. Don t despair, fledgling DJs in need of an MTV hit. You could be next.