Celebrate the art of short-form video and film with a summer screening of works that clock in at two minutes or less. Between Yoko Ono's fifteen-second Eye Blink (1966) and Leslie Thornton's two-minute Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 6 (2006), the forty-five works in this forty-five minute screening demonstrate why a concise statement is so powerful. Ranging from analog video abstraction to quick visual comedy, conceptual exercises to formal experiments with duration, commissioned public service announcements to critiques of the quintessential short-form structure, the TV commercial, the works in this screening demonstrate the enormous possibilities that artists have found in less than one hundred twenty and seconds.
The screening will include works by Dan Asher, Beth B, Phyllis Baldino, Michael Bell-Smith, Dara Birnbaum, Cheryl Donegan, VALIE EXPORT, Forcefield, Matthew Geller, Gran Fury, Gary Hill, Ken Jacobs, Tom Kalin, Kalup Linzy, George Maciunas, Charlotte Moorman, Shana Moulton, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Paul Sharits, Stuart Sherman, Shelly Silver, Michael Smith, Leslie Thornton, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto.
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