Charlemaigne Palestine: Four Motion Studies (1974)
The screaming definitely is reminiscent of his work in The Theatre of Eternal Music.
I disagree with his notion that "The perceiver is in as much danger, as much in the drama of the sequence as I am". The screaming alienates us from what's going on, it makes us aware of what he's going through as a completely different thing than what we will ever experience.
Regardless of what he was intending, I still believe it was an effective example of making unaltered footage seem abstract.
Peter CAMPUS: Double Vision (1971)
The various experiments with two camera feeds often lead to an experience of aesthetic catharsis, much like geometric shapes being put together in a symmetrical pattern.
Lynda BENGLIS: Now (1973)
The most interesting work we saw this week. It works with feedback, sexual imagery, and director/performer relations. It was also really funny so double points.
Dan GRAHAM: Performer/Audience/Mirror (1975)
Video to record performance art. Cute idea for performance but I would be more interested in seeing it live.
Dara BIRNBAUM: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
I've seen this one before. I really enjoy it. I like using popular culture to subvert concepts and practices of representation, without being completely obvious about what it's trying to say (unlike the Gorilla Girls who I will go on record saying they are the least interesting satirists that I have ever come across).
Gary HILL: Around and About (1980)
Subverting meaning by using non sequitur visuals to accompany audio narrative. I'm thinking about doing the same kind of thing for my own work.
Vito ACCONCI: Theme Song (1973)
I like what Vito is trying to do. He's putting me in the role of the woman and as a woman I find him absolutely exhausting.
ANT FARM & T.R. UTHCO: The Eternal Frame (1975)
The best work of the week. I like the concept of celebrity heaven where I imagine Princess Diana and Morgan Freeman will both end up with Henry the 8th.
Week2:
Gary HILL - Solstice d'hiver (1993)
Somnolent and novel. Abstracting the crushing routine of daily life.
Andy WARHOL - Eat/ Empire (1964)
Seen it. I know it. I don't have to watch it.
James BENNING: 13 Lakes (2004)
I don't particularly like landscape photography so I don't know why landscape would be any different, it isn't. It's good to subvert my expectations, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to pay attention.
Bruce NAUMAN - Stamping in the Studio (1968)
Not much to say about this that the write up won't say. I like the way he moves, it's kind of a dance.
Bruce NAUMAN - Elke Allowing The Floor to Rise Up Over Her, Face Up (1973)
Another video recording of a performance, but this one the camera plays a much more interesting role. By him choosing the angles, the performer has the ability to potentially bamboozle the viewer.
Vito ACCONCI - Centers (1973)
Vito Acconci has switched from hitting on me to being scared of me, I'm winning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na2W38tLp_Q
Jack GOLDSTEIN - Knife/ Terry FOX - The Children's Tapes
Cinema=pictorial. Video=performative.
Week 3:
Gary HILL: Blind Spot (2003)
great subversion of political expectation of representation of the arab male (might not be real sentence)
Michael SNOW: SSHTOORTY (2005)
despite what some of my peers say I am certain that was all one take.
Martin ARNOLD - Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)
Best one so far. Mickey Rooney is sexualized (I like the way he moves), Judy Garland becomes a robot. Creating narrative out of fragments.
Hollis FRAMPTON: Critical Mass (1971)
10 points to me for being able to follow it. 30 points to that classmate who dissected it.
Week 5:
Points to Brock for showing Michel Gondry, it is imperative that we bridge this video/cinematic divide.
Week 6:
Very excited that I got to present my favourite guy in the whole world.
The expanded/compressed time projects were for the most part interesting but the conversation would at times devolve into guess work.
Time is relative, one video can make real time seem expanded or compressed. The guy who recorded himself by accident.
