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Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black at the 2008 Whitney Biennial
Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
2008, performance
A video of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black's performance at the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Joseph Beuys, Felt TV, 1970
1970
From UbuWeb:

"Beuys turns up the bottom left corner of the felt, revealing a glimpse of the faulty TV picture. The voice of a TV reporter, who is talking about current milk and meat prices, is still audible. Beuys declares he has 'undertaken a gradual elimination' by 'filtering away' the picture first while leaving the sound, 'but when the picture has gone, the sound becomes absurd.'"

From Medienkunstnetz:

"As a contribution to Gerry Schum's 'Identifications', Beuys adapted for television the 'Felt TV' action previously staged for a live audience at a Happening festival in Copenhagen in 1966. It was the only Beuys action executed specifically for the camera. It opens with Beuys seated in front of a TV set showing a programme which is invisible because the screen is covered by felt. The boxing-gloves used later in the action lie at the ready beneath his chair."
Keith Haring documentary Drawing the Line (Part 3)
Keith Haring
1989
Part 3 of the 1989 Keith Haring documentary Drawing the Line.
Marcel Duchamp Breaking Glasses
Marcel Duchamp
1961
Dadascope (1961), directed by Hans Richter, contains two poems by Marcel Duchamp. "Carte Postale" and "Puns."
Bas Jan Ader, I'm Too Sad to Tell You, 1971
Bas Jan Ader
1971, video
Bas Jan Ader's I'm Too Sad to Tell You, 1971.
Pet Shop Boys, "It's a Sin" (directed by Derek Jarman)
Derek Jarman
1987, music video
Derek Jarman's video for the Pet Shop Boys' "It's a Sin."
Vito Acconci, Undertone, 1972 (excerpt)
Vito Acconci
1972
In this now infamous tape, exemplary of his early transgressive performance style, Vito Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl rubbing his legs under the table. Carrying on a rambling dialogue that shifts back and forth between the camera/spectator and himself, Acconci sexualizes the implicit contract between performer and viewer - the viewer serving as a voyeur who makes the performance possible by watching and completing the scene, believing the fantasy.
Stan Brakhage, Window Water Baby Moving (1959) (Part 2)
Stan Brakhage
1959
Part 2 of Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving (1959).
Stan Brakhage, Mothlight (1963)
Stan Brakhage
1963, film
Stan Brakhage's film Mothlight.
David Lynch, Gucci commercial
David Lynch (director); Blondie, "Heart of Glass" (soundtrack).
Salvador Dalí on What's My Line
Salvador Dalí
1950s, television show
Salvador Dalí as a guest on the television show What's My Line.
Keith Haring documentary Drawing the Line (Part 1)
Keith Haring
1989
Part 1 of Elisabeth Aubert's 1989 documentary on Keith Haring.
Vito Acconci, Open Book, 1974
Vito Acconci
1974
Vito Acconci's open mouth is framed by the camera in an extreme close-up, bringing the viewer uncomfortably close. A desperate sense of strained urgency comes across as Acconci gasps, "I'll accept you, I won't shut down, I won't shut you out.... Im open to you, I'm open to everything.... This is not a trap, we can go inside, yes, come inside...." Acconci continues to plead in this way for the length of the tape, his mouth held unnaturally wide open. The pathological psychology of such enforced openness betrays a desperate struggle to accept and be accepted by others. The sustained image of Acconci's open mouth also evidences a sinister, vaguely threatening streak that is more or less evident in much of Acconci's work.
Joseph Beuys, "Sonne Statt Reagan" (1982)
1982
From UbuWeb:

"Beuys tried his luck as a pop singer as part of his political commitment. His song 'Sonne statt Reagan' attacks Ronald Reagan's arms policy. The song was issued as a record and Beuys appeared before big audiences with it during the peace movement's demonstrations and also with the group Die Desserteure in the ARD television broadcast 'Bananas' on 3.7.1982.

'Regen'', pronounced like 'Reagan', is the German for 'rain.'"
Salvador Dalí in a Lanvin Chocolate commercial
Salvador Dalí
television commercial
Salvador Dalí in a commercial for Lanvin chocolate.
Otto Muehl, Kardinal, 1967
Otto Muehl
1967
Otto Muehl's Kardinal, 1967.
The Smiths, "There is a Light" (directed by Derek Jarman)
Derek Jarman
1986, music video
Derek Jarman's video for The Smiths's song "There is a Light"
Maya Deren, Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946.
Maya Deren
1946, film
Maya Deren's Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946.
Hans Richter, Inflation (1928)
Hans Richter
1928
Hans Richter's Inflation (1928).
Oskar Schlemmer, Triadic Ballet (1927)
Oskar Schlemmer
1927
Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet (1927).
Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren, Witch's Cradle, 1943 (Part 2)
Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren
1943, film
Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren's Witch's Cradle, 1943. (Part 2)
Derek Jarman, Jubilee (1977) (excerpt)
Derek Jarman
1977, film
A clip from Derek Jarman's 1977 film Jubilee.
David Lynch, Parisienne commercial
David Lynch's commercial for Parisenne cigarettes.
Hans Richter, Dreams that Money Can Buy
Hans Richter
In this clip from Hans Richter's Dreams that Money Can Buy, John Cage does music and Marcel Duchamp does visuals.
Richard Avedon's 1979 Wonderbra Commercial
Richard Avedon
1979, television commercial
A Wonderbra Commercial from 1979 shot by Richard Avedon.
Hans Richter, Ghost Before Breakfast (1928)
Hans Richter
1928, film
Hans Richter's Ghost Before Breakfast (1928).
Keith Haring documentary Drawing the Line (Part 2)
Keith Haring
1989
Part 2 of 1989 Keith Haring documentary Drawing the Line.
Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren, Witch's Cradle, 1943 (Part 1)
Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren
1943
Marcel Duchamp and Maya Deren's Witch's Cradle, 1943. (Part 1)
John Baldessari, Baldessari Sings Lewitt (excerpt), 1972
1972
John Baldessari, Baldessari Sings Lewitt (excerpt), 1972
Stan Brakhage, Window Water Baby Moving (1959) (Part 1)
Stan Brakhage
1959
Part 1 of Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving (1959), a record of the birth of the filmmaker's first child.

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