Matthew Barney + Bjork
Drawing Restraint 9 Trailer
Matthew Barney + Bjork
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney’s interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
Matthew Barney
Cremaster Cycle 3
Matthew Barney
The cycle includes the films as well as photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations the artist produced in conjunction with each episode. Its conceptual departure point is the male cremaster muscle, the primary function of which is to raise and lower the testes in response to temperature. The films increase in production quality and ambition, and they can alternatively be viewed in any order, as different views of a set of themes and preoccupations.
Hennessy Youngman
Art Thoughtz: How to Make an Art
“The latest phenomenon to sweep the Internet is the “Art Thoughtz” videos of a young Philadelphia man who goes by the name Hennessy Youngman. His moniker combines references to Henny Youngman, “the king of the one-liners” (originator of “take my wife—please!”) and to Hennessy cognac, a status drink among hip-hoppers. Youngman (played by artist Jayson Musson) offers screamingly funny and sometimes sharply critical observations on the art world in the form of instructional videos. “
Pierre Huyghe
Romance
By filming staged scenarios, Huyghe probes the capacity of cinema to distort and ultimately shape memory. While blurring the traditional distinction between fiction and reality—and revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life—Huyghe’s playful work often addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.
It’s like a walk-through of early MTV culture-young, graphic, blazing and fluorescent. Combining all the elements to compose an environment-2-d, 3-d, video, neon lights, and performance-the TM Sisters did just that: constructed a glowing microcosm that encompassed the past, present, and future of their generation.
Janine Antoni and Paul Ramirez Jonas
Always New, Always Familiar
The work consists of two videos. The large, project image that fills the far wall was filmed by Antoni from the front of a boat moving across the ocean. The image shows the path directly ahead of the boat, a seemingly endless seascape. It i an exhilarating and inspiring point of view embodying anticipation for the journey and unknown potentialities of what lies ahead.
Ramirez Jonas shot the second image simultaneously from the back of the boat Playing on a monitor inset into the bottom of the larger image, this view of the white-capped trail left in the boat’s wake. Here, the immediate and quickly receding pat evokes a sense of longing as the waves, like memories, eventually loose their shape and definition. The sounds coming from speakers positioned at the front and back of the room correspond to the images and the part of the boat where they were filmed so that the sound of the boat’s engine is heard towards the back of the room and the rushing sound of wind and breaking waves is heard towards the front.
