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Michael Clark and The Fall, Lay of the Land (1984 performance footage)

Michael Clark

1984, performance footage

Footage of Michael Clark's dance troupe performing with The Fall for their song "Lay of the Land" during a 1984 performance at the Old Grey Whistle Test. Excerpts from Artforum's feature on Clark are available online here.

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Panel on Abstract Photography at Hammer Museum
UCLA
2009, 1:16:49
Artists Susan Rankaitis and James Welling with UCLA professor George Baker discuss several approaches to abstraction in photography. The panel is moderated by Lyle Rexer, the author of The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (2009).
Nikhil Chopra performs at Khoj International Artists Workshop, 2008 (1 of 2)
5:01, 2008
Nikhil Chopra performs during the Khoj International Artists Workshop, March 25, 2008. To read his 500 Words click here.
Jean Cocteau, The Blood of a Poet, 1930. Excerpt.
0:58
Excerpt from Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet.
Andy Warhol, Mario Banana (Nos. 1 and 2), 1964
6:57, 1964
Andy Warhol's Mario Banana (Nos. 1 and 2), 1964. Two 16-mm film starring Mario Montez.
James Benning, Fire & Rain, 2009. Trailer for the 2009 Viennale.
1:22, 2009
From YouTube:

VIENNALE-TRAILER BY JAMES BENNING
Festival-Trailer Fire & Rain

The annual festival trailer has been one of the Viennales special features for quite some time now. It is not a commercial trailer as such, but rather a small, autonomous piece of cinema, standing on its own and for the festival alike.

In the case of James Bennings work this short trailer is a true action film. Benning shot the work process in a steelworks in the Ruhr area. On a kind of conveyor belt, a glowing piece of steel flits across the screen and disappears only to reappear again as a blazing, shining material. Finally, artificial rain falls onto the glowing metal, shrouding the whole image in a cloud of steam and making it disappear.

Created at the Viennales invitation, James Bennings short film is both a simple and subtle piece of cinema. I took the steel rolling process that takes about ten minutes, as the filmmaker explains his approach, and condensed it down to one minute by cutting out portions and hiding the ellipses in time with dissolves.

Following last years Viennale trailer by Jean-Luc Godard, which turned out to be a small miracle of montage art, Bennings work is an equally fascinating cinematic poem about time and motion taking an industrial work process as an example. And it would not be James Benning, had he not chosen the title of an old hippie song by James Taylor as the title for his trailer: Fire and Rain.

The festival trailer Fire & Rain will be screened from September 24 in more than one hundred selected Austrian cinemas and will be shown repeatedly as part of the Viennale program from October 22 to November 4.
A.L. Steiner, Glamour Girl, 2009
Chicks on Speed
2009, 6:04
A music video for Chicks on Speed by A.L. Steiner that utilizes footage from America's Next Top Model and Fashiontelevision.com.
Jack Smith, Scotch Tape, 1959–62
3:07
Jack Smith's 16-mm film Scotch Tape, 1959–62, as screened on the Sundance channel.

From J. Hoberman's notes for the catalogue for "Live Film! Jack Smith!": "Jack Smith's first released movie is an apparently edited-in-camera 100-foot role of Kodachrome II shot in 1959, using Ken Jacobs's 16mm Bell & Howell at one of Jacobs's Star Spangled to Death locations—the rubble-strewn site of the future Lincoln Center on Manhattan's west side."
Jim O'Rourke, Tetsu Saito, and Chie Mukai at SuperDeluxe
2009, 10:56
Jim O'Rourke on guitar, Tetsu Saito on double bass, and Chie Mukai on vocals at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, July 2009.
K8 Hardy, Sisters in the Struggle, 2007
K8 Hardy
2007, 5:19
Music video by K8 Hardy for the Montreal-based band Lesbians on Ecstasy. Sisters in the Struggle is the anthem for their new album "We Know You Know".
Mark Leckey, Flix
2:06
A film by Mark Leckey.
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Art History With Benefits, at X-Initiative
2:00
From Performa TV:

"A half-hour presentation examining the romance, figuratively and literally, between cultural funding and sex, drawn from such diverse sources as environmental psychologist Pace Underhill "WHy We Buy"; George BUchner"Danto n' Death"; and congressional records concerning the NEA Debates of the late 80s."
Trailer for Margot Benacerraf’s Araya (1959)
1:51
Trailer for Margot Benacerraf’s Araya (1959)
Ryan McNamara, Sacred Band of Thebes AKA Any Fag Could Do That, @ X-Initiative
2:37
From PerformaTV:

"In 375 BC, the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite force composed entirely of homosexual lovers, annihilated the Spartan army, a brigade three times their size, at Tegyra. 2353 years later, party planner Robert Isabell triumphed as well, becoming an instant sensation when he filled Studio 54 with four tons of glitter."
Omer Fast, Talk Show, 2009, at Abrons Art Center
3:12
From PerformaTV

"For Performa 09 Omer Fast will combine the familiar childhood game of Broken Telephone with the confessional talk show format. In a theatrical setting, invited guests will recount personal memories with direct links to current global events and the projection of power and freedom. As each guest begins speaking, an actor appears alongside, as an observer, listening to the guest's account for the first time. When the guest is finished, the actor retells what he or she has just heard, while another actor listens to the account and subsequently narrates his or her own rendition of the story. This sequence repeats several times over the course of the evening, allowing the story to spontaneously transform from individual memory to communal recitation, from version to version into its own fluid text."
Ida Ekblad, In Exile From the Mineral Kingdom, 2009
2009, 1:37
A video by the Oslo-based artist Ida Ekblad.
K8 Hardy, Off Our Backs, 2009
2009, 4:32
A music video by the artist K8 Hardy for a song off the debut album of the Brooklyn-based band MEN.

The band is comprised of JD Samson, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Michael O'Neill, and other special guests.
Nikhil Chopra performs at Khoj International Artists Workshop, 2008 (2 of 2)
4:26, 2008
Nikhil Chopra performs during the Khoj International Artists Workshop, March 25, 2008. To read his 500 Words click here.
Amy Granat and Felicia Ballos, Innocence in Extremis, 2009, at Emily Harvey
2:33
From PerformaTV:

"Felicia Ballos and Amy Granat are both native of St. Louis, MO, and are both founding members of Cinema Zero in Brooklyn."
Preview of C.L.U.E by robbinschilds and A.L. Steiner, 2007
2007, 0:32
A movement-based video piece by robbinschilds and A.L. Steiner, C.L.U.E. uses original choreographed language as a vehicle to explore the natural and human-made landscape.
Tamar Ettun and Emily Coates, Empty Is Also, 2009, at X-Initiative
2:01
From PerformaTV:

"Integrating objects, a dancer, a musician, and video, Empty Is Also inverts the usual conception of dance and sculpture in relation to the ephemeral by investigating dance's durability versus sculpture's ultimate disposability. The dancer inhabits the sculptural forms even as she rearranges them to create a sequence of landscapes that shift over time. The sculpture reflects the dancer's energy and agency, while her movement absorbs the shape and nature of the objects with which she interacts. The tension between the perceived natures of sculpture and dance serves as the installation's primary conflict, or reason for being. Music by Jane Ira Bloom. AUDIENCE IS INVITED TO ENTER AND LEAVE AT ANY TIME."
Rabih Mroué, Gift to New York, 2009 at P.S. 122
1:31
From PerformaTV:

"Rabih Mroués surprise reading for New York by an unannounced guest, followed with a 50 minute screening of a selection of his video works including Face A Face B (10 min.), With Soul, with Blood (11 min.), I, the undersigned (7 min.), On three Posters (18 min.) and What know I of beginnings (2 min.).
Chris Burden, Beam Drop Inhotim, 2008.
5:37
Documentation of Chris Burden's Beam Drop Inhotim, 2008, in Inhotim, Brazil.
Genesis P-Orridge Speaks About Improvisation in Music, 2006
www.punkcast.com
2006, 6:16
An interview with Genesis P-Orridge.
An excerpt from Decoding Ferran Adria on the Food Network
10:22
A Meal at El Bulli hosted by the Food Network
James Welling, Middle Video, 1972
1972, 7:39
James Welling's short, early video.
James Welling, Lake Pavillion, 2009
2009, 6:15
Lake Pavillion, James Welling's first film, was made with a low-definition digital camera in 2009.
Genesis P-Orridge on Soft Focus
VBS
2007, 7:16
Genesis P-Orridge is interviewed on VBS's Soft Focus at the Guggenheim Museum. This is part one of four.
Kalup Linzy for Performa 09 at Taxter & Spengemann
5:16
From PerformaTV:

"The drag-queen diva Taiwan, a major character in Linzy's soap-opera series Conversations Wit De Churen, will perform for the first time an acoustic set with accompanying guitar."
Emily Roysdon speaks to FLYP about her work
FLYPMedia
2009, 4:24
Emily Roysdon discusses the origins of her performance-based work. To read more about Roysdon, click here.
Soo Kim Discusses "When It's a Photograph" at Otis College Bolsky Gallery
2008, 14:32
Soo Kim, interim director of photography at the Otis College Bolsky Gallery and curator of "When It's a Photograph," discusses several of the works in the exhibition.

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Michael Clark and The Fall, Lay of the Land (1984 performance footage)

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1984, performance footage

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