Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Reading by Donald Trump
Read more: The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Reading by Donald TrumpThe Origins of Totalitarianism:Donald Trump reads Hannah Arendt AI video and sound. 2024, 24:30mins YouTube link: https://youtu.be/RzWi51prZlA?si=hTUP4F-_nOSijbba I’ve just released a new project. The work is a shallow fake video of Donald Trump reading from Hannah Arendt’s seminal book The Origins…
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Embracing the Elements: Tong Wenmin’s ‘FLYING THE WIND’ and the Art of Human-Nature Interaction
Read more: Embracing the Elements: Tong Wenmin’s ‘FLYING THE WIND’ and the Art of Human-Nature InteractionTong Wenmin is a Chinese performance artist affiliated with works exploring movement, interaction, and humanity. Her art is a relationship between human behavior and the natural world, a round dynamic between physicality and environmental elements. One of her most compelling…
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Mechanized Moments: John Wood and Paul Harrison’s ‘Device’ and the Absurdity of Technology
Read more: Mechanized Moments: John Wood and Paul Harrison’s ‘Device’ and the Absurdity of TechnologyJohn Wood and Paul Harrison are renowned British artists whose collaboration has led to the merging of video art with performance and conceptual art. Their works usually reside on the relationship between human beings, objects, and the environment, with humor…
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“Faces and Phases”- a catalyst for a more inclusive and accepting world
Read more: “Faces and Phases”- a catalyst for a more inclusive and accepting worldStep into the captivating world of Zanele Muholi, the activist and masterful photographer from South Africa. Through their lens, they unveil the realities found within LGBTQI+ stories, challenging norms and reshaping perceptions of beauty. Each intimate and evocative portrait captured…
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Access Denied
Read more: Access DeniedAccess Denied is a working project that started in 2015 that deals with inaccessible art spaces around Los Angeles. I am a physically disabled person who has been going to visit art shows for over 10 years and during that…
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Melting Point: Francis Alÿs’s ‘Paradox of Praxis’ and the Futility of Effort
Read more: Melting Point: Francis Alÿs’s ‘Paradox of Praxis’ and the Futility of EffortIn many of his works, the Belgian-Mexican conceptual and performance provocateur Francis Alÿs questions the relationship between action, effort, and outcome. His works tend to inspire one toward a blurring of lines between the actions done in artistic expression and…
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“Stand Up, Sisters (《姐姐妹妹站起来》)”: The Miserable Past of Chinese Prostitutes
Read more: “Stand Up, Sisters (《姐姐妹妹站起来》)”: The Miserable Past of Chinese Prostitutes“Stand Up, Sisters” tells the story of a rural girl who journeys to Beijing for a family visit, only to be deceived and forced into prostitution, suffering unthinkable hardships. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, these women…
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Un-Daily Bread
Read more: Un-Daily BreadIn response to an earlier project called “Daily Bread, Gregg Segal collaborated with the United Nations Refugee Agency to bring awareness to the crisis of refugees fleeing Venezuela through his project “Un-Daily Bread.” “We chose to look not only at…
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Daily Bread
Read more: Daily BreadGregg Segal — a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the “sensibility of a sociologist” — travelled around the world asking kids to keep a journal of everything they ate in…
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7 Days of Garbage
Read more: 7 Days of GarbageGregg Segal — a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the “sensibility of a sociologist” — asked family, friends, neighbors and other acquaintances to save their trash and recyclables for a…