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Blue Flowers // Amanda Curreri

In Dutch, “blue flowers” translates to “bold-faced lies.” Initially conceived as a color theory lecture with a feminist-bent,Blue Flowers developed over the course of two years in San Francisco. Starting with Julia Kristeva’s theory of chromatic apparatus things gave way to deal with the increasingly rapid gentrifying forces of San Francisco’s tech industry. At a three-day long […]

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WOKITOKITEKI // Urayoán Noel

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Urayoán Noel made a special manifesto-poem-monologue in response to the ideas behind The Lecturers. Check all his project at : www.wokitokiteki.com WOKITOKITEKI is an ongoing series of improvised video poems by Urayoán Noel. The poems are generated spontaneously by speaking into a smartphone while walking around urban and/or natural landscapes, yet over the […]

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Sublimely Intolerable // Zoë Taleporos

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Sublimely Intolerable: The Early Years of Artist-Produced Public Access Television in New York City, explores the ways in which artists in the late 70s and early 80s used the newly available format of public access television as an artistic medium or exhibition platform to circumvent art world structures. The video acts as case study of […]

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A Conversation // Cybele Lyle

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A Conversation is an exploration of the variety of conversations that happen among artists and the different ways these conversations impact an artist’s practice. The first 3 segments are: The Silent Conversation, The Collective Conversation, and The One on One Conversation. Since the exploration is from a first-person perspective and reflects my own experience, the […]

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Me & Art // James Tantum

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Me & Art, Tantum’s most extensively researched and edited video is where he attempts to explain his understanding of and relationship with contemporary art, in three parts. He specifically explores what Art might be—or at least seems to be—what it does and how it came to be where it is now. (His work isn’t done […]

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The Hole Idea // Post Brothers

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It’s a cubist bit of dark, an aperture in any surface, and yet a thing, physically promiscuous, malleable and expandable, foldable and rollable, poured, printed, or painted. IT does what it pleases. It’s behavior is as elastic as its form. The Hole Idea examines the aesthetic, philosophical and socio-political possibilities of the portable hole. A […]

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