BRUCE LABRUCE, SUPER 8½, 1994
LaBruce’s quasi-autobiographical sophomore effort tells the story of “Bruce,” a porn auteur with avant-garde ambitions…
ANDREA FRASER, UNTITLED, 2003
The central action in Untitled has Fraser and a male client of her US gallery meet for a session of sex and video recording in a New York hotel room. This is the part of the work that suggests an archetypal narrative…
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN, FUSES, 1964-67
Fuses was made as an homage to a relationship of ten years—to a man with whom I lived and worked as an equal. We are perceived through the eyes of our cat…
WU TSANG, WE HOLD WHERE STUDY, 2017
The feeling of communication is very elusive,” Tsang has said. “In being seen by another, there’s always an incompleteness to that understanding…
PARIS IS BURNING, JENNIE LIVINGSTON, 1990
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene…
ISAAC JULIEN, LOOKING FOR LANGSTON, 1989
Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration - and recreation - of the private world of poet, novelist and playwright Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) and his fellow black artists from the Harlem Renaissance…
CARLOS MOTTA, LEGACY, 2019
A 30-minute video endurance performance by Carlos Motta, Legacy, presents the artist, looking directly at the camera and wearing a dental gag, as he tries to repeat, from memory, a timeline of HIV/AIDS, from to 1908 until 2019, spoken at him by American radio journalist Ari Shapiro…
SHIRIN NESHAT, TURBULENT, 1998
Turbulent is one of Neshat’s most critically acclaimed films, having been awarded the Lion d’or at the Venice Biennale in 1999. It was also her first foray into the realm of video, a medium that subsequently has played a major role in her artistic production…
CHERYL DONEGAN, HEAD, 1993
With Head, Donegan ushered in a new era of brash, low-tech performance video. Here she confronts sex, fantasy, and voyeurism in an autoerotic work-out performed to pop music…
CLIFFORD PRINCE KING, KISS OF LIFE, 2022
In Kiss of Life, two Black people living with HIV reflect on their experiences with the virus. Raw conversations surrounding disclosure, rejection and self love are expressed through visual poetry and dreamscapes…
MARLON RIGGS, COLOR ADJUSTMENT, 1992
In this documentary, Marlon Riggs carries his landmark studies of prejudice into the Television Age. COLOR ADJUSTMENT traces 40 years of race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment, scrutinizing television's racial myths and stereotypes…
OMER FAST, CNN CONCATENATED, 2002
CNN Concatenated 2002 is a single channel colour video lasting approximately eighteen minutes and composed entirely of excerpts from the American television news channel CNN…
LORNA SIMPSON, CALL WAITING, 1997
In works such as Call Waiting (1997), she depicts people of color engaging in intimate yet incomplete conversations that elude easy interpretation but seem to plumb the mysteries of identity and desire…
PATTY CHANG, MELONS (AT A LOSS), 1998
A performance juggling a narrative of an imaginary cultural ritual of receiving a plate at a relatives death with the act of cutting and eating a melon while balancing a plate on the head…
SONDRA PERRY, WET AND WAVY LOOKS – TYPHOON COMING ON, 2016
Using a water-resistant rowing machine filled with hair gel connected to three screen monitors, Sondra Perry’s 2016 Wet and Wavy – Typhoon coming on for a Three-Monitor Workstation engages the viewer’s body as a component of her piece…
ANA MENDIETA, FUEGO DE TIERRA, 1987
Released two years after the artist’s death, this compelling documentary tracks Mendieta’s life from her childhood in Cuba and tumultuous early years in the United States through her later success in New York and abroad…
VITO ACCONCI, UNDERTONE 1972
One of Acconci's most compelling works, Undertone is a confrontational attempt to engage the viewer in an intimate, ultimately perverse relation with the artist…
SUSAN MOGUL, TAKE OFF, 1974
In one sense Take Off is like a public service announcement or a TV commercial about vibrators and masturbation. My persona is a salesperson demonstrating a product…
GARY HILL, BATHING, 1977
A woman is lying in a bathtub with her eyes closed. In the background the splashing from a running tap can be heard. The camera pans across the woman’s body to dwell on her face, which just protrudes above the surface of the water…
MARTHA ROSLER, SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN, 1975
In unsmiling deadpan, Martha Rosler parodies the role of the perfect TV housewife and cook. Running through an alphabet of kitchen utensils, she demonstrates each for the camera…