WORKS
Vito Acconci – Theme Song (1973) / Open Book
Phil Collins – Hero (2002)
Sam Taylor-Wood—Hysteria
Howardena Pindell—Free, White and 21
Colin Campbell—Sackville, I’m Yours
Christian Marclay—Guitar Drag
Eleanor Antin – Representational Painting (1972)
Oswald Store – November 22 1963 12:30 5:30 PM CST ABC WFAA CBS NBC (JFK) (1970-1)
Pipilotti Rist
EXERCISE: VITALITY AFFECTS
Make a 3-minute video about / around an object or a collection of objects which provoke an affective response. No edits. The video should involve you manipulating the object in some fashion, involve movement in accordance with your feeling for it. (The movement of the camera itself as a component in this intensification of affect should not be ignored.) Keeping your actions and attitudes towards the object (the way you’re videoing it) ambiguous will help steer you away from conjuring concrete emotional states, and lead you to err (as much as possible) on the side of the vitality affect.
FLOATING VIDEO REPORTS
By the end of the term, you will have written three video reports, each one 250-400 words. The videos are in the Drive: VIDEOStoREPORTon.
You should choose two videos from the FIRST SET, and one from the SECOND SET (TBA).
These reports should be extended reflections on elements that struck you most profoundly in the works in question. Your experiential passage through the work is what is important here. This is NOT intended to be a summary of what happens in the video.
These will all be due near the end of the course, but you can start handing them in as soon as they’re done.