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Summer Art Video Thursday

Published July 19, 2007

Andy Warhol’s Silver Flotations (4 min, 1966)
Andy Warhol’s Silver Flotations is a portrait of Warhol’s famous installation of floating silver helium-filled balloons at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1966. Willard Maas’s lyrical “film poem” is the only visual document of this seminal exhibition. – Ubuweb

WARHOL’s CINEMA – A Mirror for the Sixties (1989) – Ubuweb

Allen Ginsberg – Scenes from Allen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit – Ubuweb

Robert Frank – Pull My Daisy – Ubuweb

John Cage – For The Third Time, 4″33″ – Ubuweb

J.G. Ballard – Shanghia Jim – Ubuweb

Richard Serra – Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself [1967-1968] – Ubuweb *Please Note: Not Video

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Summer Art Video Thursday

Published July 12, 2007

UbuWeb: The YouTube of the Avant-Garde. UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video holdings to on-demand streaming formats a la YouTube, which means that you can view everything right in your browser without platform-specific software or insanely huge downloads.

Marcel Duchamp – anemic Cinema
Robert Smithson – Spiral Jetty, excerpts
William Wegman – Selected Works, early 70’s
Gilbert and George – The Ten Commandments of Gilbert and George
Peter Campus – Double Vision
Bruce Nauman – Pinch Neck, Stamping in the Studio
Robert Morris – Exchange
Bill Viola – Anthem
John Baldessari – Sings Sol Lewitt
Joeseph Beuys – Filz TV
Vito Acconci – Theme Song, Pryings, Open Book, Undertone

Image Above: John Baldessari. (American, born 1931). The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne. 1988. Illustrated book of three volumes including accordion-folded artist’s book with fifty-eight photolithographs, page: 10 1/4 x 6 11/16″ (26 x 17 cm). Publisher and printer: The Arion Press, San Francisco. Edition: 400. Johanna and Leslie J. Garfield Fund. Copyright 2007 John Baldessari

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"Light Reading" from Mel Bochner

Published November 8, 2006

This is a quick link to the always amazing UBUWEB.

Excerpts From Speculation (1967-1970)
Mel Bochner

For a variety of reasons I do not like the term “conceptual art.” Connotations of an easy dichotomy with perception are obvious and inappropriate. The unfortunate implication is of a somewhat magical/mystical leap from one mode of existence to another. The problem is the confusion of idealism and intention. By creating an original fiction, “conceptualism” posits its special nonempirical existence as a positive (transcendent) value. But no amount of qualification (or documentation) can change the situation. Outside the spoken word, no thought can exist without a sustaining support.

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