An evening of activist video work from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. Shot largely on low-end consumer equipment, these works use video as an activist tool, confronting urgent issues around the AIDS crisis, race, gender, and sexuality. Videos by ACT UP affinity groups DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activist Television) and House of Color, as well as art collective X-PRZ, will be screened along with work by artists Robert Beck and Tom Kalin. Although rooted in the specific political and cultural contexts of that moment, these powerful activist voices continue to resonate and find relevance today. Program: Robert Beck, The Feeling of Power, 1990, 8:48 min, color, sound DIVA TV, Target City Hall, 1989, 26:43, color, sound House of Color, I Object, 1990, 5:25 min, color, sound Tom Kalin, Information Gladly Given but Safety Requires Unnecessary Conversation, 1995, 1:03 min, color, sound Tom Kalin, Nation, 1992, 1 min, color, sound X-PRZ, No Sell Out... or i wnt 2 b th ultimate commodity/ machine (Malcolm X Pt. 2), 1995, 5:37 min, color, sound
Midtown, New York, NY