Curated by Chrissie Iles, curator, Film and Video, Whitney Museum of
American Art, and Bradley Eros, Brian Frye and Mark McElhatten.

Sunday, January 2

Rameau’s nephew by Diderot

1 pm

Michael Snow, Rameau’s nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen, 1974, 16mm film, color, sound, 4 hrs 27 min.

"...an achievement of the originality and brilliance of Wavelength: Snow embraces the problems of intimacy of language and thought with such variety, clarity, invention and high humour that again he seems to have made a film out of which an entire future movement could be mined." (P. Adams Sitney). With Annette Michelson, Nam June Paik, Jonas Mekas, Joyce Wieland, Bob Cowan, and many others.

Radical Video

The technical optimism of the late sixties led to the founding of a number of video collectives, including Raindance, Videofreex and Top Value Television (TVTV), who established alternatives to mainstream television, producing radical, independent video documentaries. Influenced by Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan’s writings on new technology, these groups used the democratic properties of video to create alternative systems of communication.

Arthur Ginsberg with Video Free America, The Continuing Story of Carel & Ferd, 1970 - 75, videotape, b/w, sound, 58 min.

Anticipating the landmark ‘An American Family’, this documentary tracks Carel, a porn actress and Ferd, a bi-sexual drug addict through the most intimate personal moments of their relationship, recorded over a period of five years.

Raindance, Interview with Buckminster Fuller, 1970, videotape, color, sound, 34 min.

David Cort and the Videofreex, At Maple Tree Farm and Beyond, 1972 - 75, videotape, b/w, sound, 27 min.

Early interactivity and performative movements are explored in this vintage videotape of some of the earliest experimentations with the video medium at the Maple Tree Farm Media Center.

TVTV, The Lord of the Universe, 1974, videotape, b/w and color, sound, 58 min.

In this prizewinning exposé of the sixteen year old Guru Maharaj Ji, "with a scathing economy, TVTV lays bare the corruption and hypocrisy of the Maharaj Ji and his entourage, showing the guru as he dispenses peudo-mystical knowledge [to] the duped devotees of the new religion,faded flower children whose yearning for order and meaning seem emblematic of the nation’s disaffection and uncertainty in the Watergate and Vietnam era.

4 pm

Media Bus, Greetings from Lanesville, 1976, videotape, b/w and color, sound, 29 min.

A portrait of "the world’s smallest television station", an alternative model for TV programming, established in the local community of Lanesville.

5 pm

Television Delivers People

Richard Serra, Television Delivers People, 1973, videotape, color, sound, 6 min. Produced with Carlota Schoolman.

Doug Hall, This is The Truth, 1982, videotape, color, sound, 4 min.

Martha Rosler, If it’s Too Bad to be True, it could be DISINFORMATION, 1985, videotape, color, sound, 16 ½ min.

Muntadas, Videotape is Television, 1989, videotape, b/w and color, sound, 6 min.

Bill Viola, Reverse Television – Portraits of Viewers (compilation), 1984, videotape, color, sound, 15 min.

Wednesday, January 5

Noon

Leslie Thornton, Adynata, 1983, 16mm film, color, sound, 30 min.

Daniel Barnett, The Chinese Typewriter, 1978-83, 16mm film, color, sound, 28 min.

Daniel Barnett, Morning Procession in Yangchow, 1978-81, 16mm film, color, sound, 3 min.

Mark LaPore, A Depression in The Bay of Bengal, 1996, 16mm film, color, sound, 28 min.

2 pm

Todd Haynes, Dottie Gets Spanked, 1993, videotape, color, sound, 25 min.

Matthias Müller, Alpsee, 1994, 16mm film, color, sound, 15 min.

Lewis Klahr, The Pharaoh’s Belt, 1993, 16mm film, color, sound, 43 min.

4 pm

Julie Murray, Three Landscapes for Peter Wyer, 1999, 16mm film, color, sound, 6 min.

Thad Povey, Thine Inward Looking Eyes, 1993, 16mm film, color, sound, 2 min.

Sandy Moore, Gawrsh, I didn’t know you was a Lady, 1982, 16mm film, color, sound, 3 min.

Daniel Barnett, Pull/Out Fall Out, 1974, 16mm film, color, sound, 4 min.

Nina Fonoroff, Some Phases of an Empire, 1984, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 9 min.

Naomi Uman, Removed, 1999, 16mm film, color, sound, 5 min.

Joyce Wieland and Barbara Fergurson, Barbara’s Blindness, 1967, 16mm film, b/w and color, sound, 17 min.

Todd Graham, Apocalypse Pooh, 1987, videotape, color, sound, 10 min.

Christian Marclay, Telephones, 1997, videotape, b/w, sound, 5 min.

Thursday, January 6

1:30 pm

Jerome Hiler, Gladly Given, 1997, 16mm film (18fps), color, silent, 10 min.

Konrad Steiner, Floating by Eagle Rock/She Is Asleep, 1999, 16mm film, color, sound, 11 min.

Timoleon Wilkins, MM, 1996, 16mm film, color, sound, 8 min.

David Gatten, What The Water Said, nos. 1-3, 1997-98, 16mm film, color, silent, 16 min.

James Otis, (the daily compromise of) My Enmeshment, 1999, 16mm film, color, sound, 7 min.

Donna Cameron, Autumn Leaves, 1994, 16mm film, color, sound, 6 min.

Louise Bourque, Fissures, 1999, 16mm film, color, silent, 2 min.

Kurt Kren, 32/76 An W+B, 1976, color, silent, 8 min.

Gunvor Nelson, Frame Line, 1984, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 22 min.

3:30 pm

Joe Gibbons, Elegy, 1991, videotape, color, silent, 12 min.

Michael Johnsen and Greg Pierce, EV635a.w11c72, 1996, 16mm film, color, magnetic sound, 11 min.

Pelle Lowe, Smoke, 1996, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 24 min.

Julie Murray, Anathema, 1995, 16mm film, color, sound, 7 min.

Daniel Barnett, White Heart, 1975, 16mm film, color, sound, 53 min.

6 pm

Matthias Müller, The Memo Book, 1989, 16mm film, color, sound, 28 min.

Leslie Thornton, The Last Time I Saw Ron, 1994, videotape, color, sound, 12 min.

Leslie Thornton, Strange Space, 1993, videotape, color, sound, 4 min.

David Wojnarowicz, Teaching a Frog to Dance, 1989, videotape, color, sound, 30 min.

Tom Kalin, I Hung Back, Held Fire, Danced and Lied, 1995, videotape, color, sound, 5 min.

Friday, January 7

Wind From the East

Noon

Jim Hoberman, Mission to Mongo, 1977-78, 16mm film, color, sound, 3 min.

Carolee Schneemann, Viet Flakes, 1965, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 11 min.

Richard Levine, War Stories, 1983, 16mm film, color, sound, 46 min.

Lynne Sachs, Which Way East, 1994, 16mm film, color, sound, 33 min.

Kim Trang T. Tran, Ekleipsis, 1998, 16mm film, b/w and color, sound, 22 min

2 pm

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, 1989, 16mm film, color, sound, 108 min.

4 pm

Peter Davis, Hearts and Minds, 1974, 16mm film, color, sound, 112, min.

8 pm

Dennis Hopper, The Last Movie, 1971, 35mm film, color, sound, 108 min.

Saturday, January 8

11.30 am

Art and Politics

The early seventies were marked by the rise of feminism, the women’s liberation movement, and a profound disillusionment with authority in the wake of the disaster of the Vietnam war. Women began to assert themselves sexually, socially and politically, forming coalitions, cooperatives and collectives which challenged the traditional male-dominated institutions of art, academia, politics and the marketplace. At the same time, the full horror of Vietnam began to surface as returning Vietnam veterans described what they had witnessed and experiences in the killing fields.

11.30 am

Not for Sale

Laura Cottingham, Not For Sale: Feminism and Art in the USA during the 1970s, 1998, videotape, color, sound, 90 min.

This video essay by Laura Cottingham documents the moment in American history when women first identified themselves as a political group and organized for the right to participate in cultural production as artists. The film traces some of the radical art activities of the feminist art movement during the early seventies, including performances, video, sculpture, painting and activist practices.

1.30 pm

Women of the World Unite

Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975, videotape, b/w, sound, 6 min.

Barbara Hammer, Dyketactics, 1973, 16mm film, color, sound, 4 min.

One hundred and ten images of touch – brushing, stroking, bathing, eating, loving. A celebration of lesbian women’s experience.

Hermine Freed, Art Herstory, 1974, 21 min.

Lynda Benglis, Female Sensibility, 1973, videotape, color, sound, 14 min.

Nancy Angelo, Nun and Deviant, 1976, videotape, b/w, sound, 20 min.

3 pm

D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Town Bloody Hall, 1971, 16mm film, color, sound, 88 min.

On 20^th April 1971, a packed audience gathered to watch Norman Mailer, who had just published The Prisoner of Sex, participate in a panel discussion on women’s liberation, with Jill Johnson, Germaine Greer, Jacqueline Ceballos and Diana Trilling. This classic film documents the heated debate which took place, including contributions from audience members including Susan Sontag and Betty Friedan.

5 pm

Winter Soldier

Winterfilm, in association with Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Winter Soldier, 1972, color, sound, 90 min.

This powerful film, made by a 16 member film collective including the filmmaker Robert Fiore, documents the Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit in 1971. The film records the testimony of over 125 Vietnam veterans representing every major combat unit to see action in Vietnam, who gave eye witness testimony to the war crimes they either participated in or observed. The film not only exposes the horrors of the past, but raises disturbing questions about the deep impact of Vietnam on American society.

7 pm

Smile: The Films of Yoko Ono

With the participation of Yoko Ono

From 1966 to 1971, Yoko Ono produced a body of films which paralleled her conceptual work in performance, sculpture, painting and music. This program presents her films made between 1969 – 1971, a period in which her earlier conceptual ideas became infused with a politicized approach to the body, sexuality and power.

Yoko Ono, Fly, 1970, 16mm film, color, sound, 25 min.

Yoko Ono, Freedom, 1970, 16mm film, b/w, silent, 1 min

Yoko Ono, Erection, 1971, 16mm film, color, sound, 20 min. Produced and directed in collaboration with John Lennon.

Yoko Ono, Apotheosis, 1970, 16mm film, color, sound, 18 min. Produced and directed in collaboration with John Lennon.

Interval

8 pm

Yoko Ono, Rape, 1969, 16mm film, color, sound, 77 min. Produced and directed in collaboration with John Lennon.

Sunday, January 9

Body/Language: Performance in Camera

11.30 am

Performance as Process

Linda Montano, Mitchell’s Death, 1978, videotape, b/w, sound, 22 min.

Lynda Benglis, Document, 1972, videotape, b/w, sound, 6 min.

Bruce Nauman, Gauze, 1969, 16mm film transferred to videotape, b/w, sound, 8 min,

Paul McCarthy, The Black and White Tapes, 1970 – 75, videotape, b/w, sound, 32 min.

1 pm

Pain, Risk, Duration

Dennis Oppenheim, Extended Armour, 1970, videotape, b/w, silent, 2 min.

Dennis Oppenheim Gingerbread Man, 1970, videotape, b/w, silent, 2 min.

Dennis Oppenheim Nail Sharpening, 1970, videotape, b/w, silent, 3 min.

Dennis Oppenheim Toward Becoming a Devil, 1970, videotape, b/w, silent, 2 min.

Dennis Oppenheim Rocked Stomach, 1970, videotape, color, silent, 3 min.

Dennis Oppenheim Fusion: Tooth and Nail, 1970, videotape, color, silent, 3 min.

Charlemagne Palestine, Body Music I, 1973, videotape, b/w, silent, 12 ½ min.

Vito Acconci, Openings, 1970, super-8 film transferred to videotape, b/w, silent, 14 min.

Chris Burden, Collected Works 1971 - 74, 1975, videotape, b/w and color, sound, 34 min. Including Shoot (1971), Bed Piece (1972), Through the Night Softly (1973), 220 (1971), Deadman (1972), Fire Roll (1973), Icarus (1973), B.C. Mexico (1973), Ad (1973), Back to You (1974), Velvet Water (1974).

Gordon Matta Clark, Clockshower, 1973, 16mm film transferred to videotape, color, silent, 13 min.

3 pm

Performance, body, earth

Introduced by Chrissie Iles, Curator, Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art.

Helène Aylon, Breaking Twenty Years Later, 1999, performance

Helène Aylon, The Breakings,1978/79-99, videotape, color and b/w, sound, 19 min.

Ana Mendieta, Selected Filmworks: Untitled (Chicken Piece, shot #2), 1972, Body Tracks (Blood Sign #2), 1974, Laberinth Silueta, Silueta Series (Laberinth Blood Imprint), 1974, Untitled (Glass Breathing), 1975, Burial of the Nanigo, (Woman Candle Silueta #2, New York show), Candle Ixchell, Black Ixchell Series (Black Ixchell Candle Ixchell), Volcan de Arena, Silueta Series (Filmworks: Rocas y humo), San Felipe, Mexico, 1980, Untitled (Figura que parece Egypta), Guanabo, Cuba, 1981, Untitled (Figura, Gunpowder en los cracks), Iowa, 1981. 16mm film, b/w and color, sound, 33 min.

Hannah Wilke, Through the Large Glass, 1976, videotape, color, sound, 10 min.

4.30 pm

New Dance

Simone Forti, Solo No. 1, 1975, videotape, b/w, sound, 8 min.

Trisha Brown, Walking On The Wall, 1971, 16mm film, b/w, silent, 20 min. Filmed by Elaine Summers.

Simone Forti and Anne Tardos, Statues, 1977/99, videotape, b/w, sound, 14 min.

Babette Mangolte, Water Motor, 1978, choreography Trisha Brown, 16mm film, b/w, silent, 9 min.

Steve Paxton, Contact Improvisation, 1972, videotape, b/w, sound, 20 min.

On a monitor, running continuously:

Howard Fried, Sea Shell Sea Sick at Saw Sea Soar, 1971, See

b/w, sound, 50 min.

Tuesday 11 – Sunday, 16 January

I Am Sitting In A Room: Sound Works by American Artists: 1950-2000

Curated by Stephen Vitiello

Advisors: Dara Birnbaum, Kenneth Goldsmith, Chrissie Iles, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, Alvin Lucier, Paul D. Miller, Barbara Moore, Ikue Mori Bruce Nauman, Pauline Oliveros, Jim O'Rourke

Tuesday, January 11

Noon

John Cage, Series ray Morris Graves, 1974, audiotape, 86 min. A reading from the text, which appears in its entirety in Empty Words: Writings 1973-78, by John Cage.

Courtesy of The John Cage Trust

1.30 pm

Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting In A Room (for voice on tape), 1970, audiotape, 45 min.

Nicolas Collins, PEA SOUP, 1974 (recorded 1999), audiotape, 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.

3 pm

Bruce Nauman, Record, 1969, vinyl record, 32 min.

Soundtrack from Violin Problem No. 2, Rhythmic Stamping (Four Rhythms in Preparation for Video Tape Problems). Published by Tanglewood Press. Edition of 100. Collection Whitney Museum of American Art

4.30 pm

Bill Fontana, Sounds from Sculpture Kirribilli Wharf, Sydney, 1976, audiotape, 2 min. 53 sec. (excerpt)

Bill Fontana, Sound Sculpture with a Sequence of Level Crossings, Oakland, 1982, audiotape, 10 min. 41 sec.

Bill Fontana, Oscillating Steel Grids along the Brooklyn Bridge, 1983, audiotape, 3 min.

Bill Fontana, Oscillating Steel Grids along the Brooklyn Bridge, 1983, audiotape, 5 min.

Bill Fontana, Sound Sculpture through the Golden Gate, 1987, audiotape, 11 min.

Alison Knowles, Bean Sequences/Bohnen Sequenz, broadcast 1982, audiotape, 29 min. Performers: Alison Knowles, Klaus Schoning, George Brecht and Jessica Higgins. Courtesy of WDR, Cologne.

Wednesday, January 12

Noon

Annea Lockwood, A Sound Map Of The Hudson River, 1989, audiotape, 120 min. Courtesy of the artist.

2.15 pm

Glenn Gould, The Idea of North, 1967, audiotape, 59 min.

3.15 pm

Alvin Lucier, Music On A Long Thin Wire, audiotape, 72 min.

4.30 pm

Steve Reich, Come Out, 1966, audiotape, 12 min. 54 sec.

Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, Prosthetica 2000, 1999, audiotape, 48 min. Courtesy of the artist and Music + Art Management.

Thursday, January 13

1 pm

Philip Glass, Music in Twelve Parts, 1974, audiotape, 3 hrs 45 min.

4.30 pm

Laetitia Sonami, What Happened, 1987, audiotape, 7 min. Text by Melody Sumner Carnahan.

Laetitia Sonami, Has/Had, 1997, audiotape, 11 min. Text by Melody Sumner Callaghan. Courtesy of the artist.

Ellen Fullman, Harmonic Cross Sweep: Overtone Series of C Chord Progression, audiotape, 5 min.

Ellen Fullman, Backward Bunny Hop, audiotape, 2 min. 48 sec.

Terry Riley, Mescalin Mix, 1960-62, audiotape, 14 min. 17 sec. Courtesy Cortical Foundation.

5.30 pm

John Cage, Williams Mix, 1952, audiotape. From The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage, recorded in performance at Town Hall, New York, May 15, 1958. Wergo. (c) Edition Peters.

David Tudor, WEB for John Cage, audiotape, broadcast 1987, 4 min. Produced on the occasion of NachtCageTag. Courtesy WDR, Cologne.

Christian Marclay, Record without a Cover, 1985, audiotape, 19 min. 36 sec.

Jim O'Rourke, Rules of Reduction, 1993, audiotape, 16 min. 52 sec.

7 pm

Maryanne Amacher, Living Sound Patent Pending, 1980, 16 min.; MUSIC FOR SOUND - JOINED ROOMS SERIES, 1980 – present, 11 min. Dual channel audiotape. Re-mastered excerpts. Courtesy of the artist.

Friday, January 14

Noon

Robert Ashley, String Quartet Describing the Motion of Large Real Bodies, audiotape, 25 min. Courtesy Lovely Music Ltd.

David Behrman, Runthrough, audiotape, 12 min. 9 sec. Courtesy Lovely Music Ltd.

Gordon Mumma, Hornpipe, audiotape, Courtesy Lovely Music Ltd.

1.30 pm

Charlotte Moorman program. Includes performance at the Whitney Museum, 1982, and Duet with Nam June Paik, Aachen, 1966. Audiotape. Courtesy Estate of Charlotte Moorman.

3 pm

Paul De Marinis, Pygmy Gamelan, 1973, audiotape, 9 min. 32 sec.

Gordon Monahan, Speaker Swinging, 1987, audiotape, 24 min. 30 sec.

Terry Fox, Berlin Attic Wire, Beating, 1981, audiotape, 24 min. 44 sec.

Ikue Mori, Garden, 1996, audiotape, (excerpts).

4.30 pm

Vito Acconci, Ten Packed Minutes, 1977, audiotape, 12 min. 47 sec.

Musical excerpts from the recordings of Leon Redbone, Cow Cow Davenport, Eric Dolphy, Karl Berger and Ornette Coleman, audiotape. From the LP Airwaves, 1977

Laurie Anderson, Two Songs for Tape Bow Violin: Ethics is the Esthetics of the Few-ture (Lenin), Song for Juanita, 1977, audiotape, 4 min. 6 sec.

Laurie Anderson, Is Anybody Home, 1976, audiotape, 4 min. 27 sec. For boat horn, camera, stairs, piano and voice. From the LP Airwaves, 1977

Dara Birnbaum, Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 in B Dur, in collaboration with TOMANDANDY, 1995, audiotape, 10 min. 34 sec. Courtesy of the artist.

Cecil Taylor, 5'66, audiotape, from the LP Chinampas.

Vito Acconci, Running Tape, 1969, audiotape, 30 min. Courtesy of the artist.

Saturday, January 15

Noon

Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting In A Room (for voice on tape), 1970/1990, audiotape, 45 min. 21 sec.

Nicolas Collins, Pea Soup, 1974, audiotape, 15 min. (recorded 1999) Courtesy the artist.

David Tudor, WEB for John Cage, broadcast 1987, audiotape, 4 min. Produced on the occasion of NachtCageTag. Courtesy of WDR, Cologne.

1.30 pm

Tony Oursler, with Larry Miller, Possession (Guitar, Conversation, Drum, Song, Growl), 1986, audiotape, 16 min. Courtesy the artist.

Mike Kelley, The Peristaltic Airwaves, 1986, audiotape, 39 min. Performed live on KPFK Radio, Los Angeles. Courtesy of the artist.

Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music: An Electronic Instrumental Composition, 1975, audiotape, 16 min. (excerpt)

3 pm

John Cage, Series ray Morris Graves, 1974, audiotape, 86 min. A reading from the text, which appears in its entirety in the book Empty Words: Writings 1973-78, by John Cage.

Courtesy The John Cage Trust

4.30 pm

Glenn Branca, Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus), 1981, audiotape, 11 min. 46 sec. (excerpt)

Tony Conrad, Four Violins (Table of the Elements), 1964, audiotape, 32 min. 30 sec.

Pauline Oliveros, I of IV, 1966, audiotape, 25 min. 30 sec.

Sunday, January 16

Noon

Bob Bielecki and Connie Kieltykya, Field Recordings, 1987-88, audiotape, 40 min. Courtesy of the artists.

David Tudor, Rainforest: Version 1, 1968, audiotape, 21 min. 47 sec. Composed for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Performed by David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi. (Mode 64)

1.30 pm

Ken Nordine, The Sound Museum, 1957, audiotape, 7 min. 9 sec. From The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1, originally from Word Jazz.

Coyle and Sharpe, Maniacs in a Living Hell, audiotape, 5 min. 30 sec. From the LP The Insane (but Hilarious) Minds of Coyle and Sharpe. Originally broadcast on KGO radio in San Francisco, early 1960s.

William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Recalling All Active Agents, 1960, audiotape, 1 hr 25 min. Made for the BBC. From the CD William S. Burroughs, Break Through in the

Grey Room.

Negativland, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For "U2" 1991, audiotape

Negativland, A Capella Mix, audiotape, 7 min. 21 sec,

Negativland, Special Edit Radio Mix, audiotape, 5 min 51 sec.

Gregory Whitehead, Dead Letters: A Broadcast Colloquium, 1994. Part 1: The Philographer, audiotape, 17 min.

Charles Amirkhanian, Church Car, Version 2, recorded 1981, audiotape, 2 min. 55 sec. From the LP Mental Radio.

Pamela Z, Geekspeak, 1995, audiotape, 7 min. 32 sec.

Edwin Torres, Holy Kid (Kill Rock Stars), audiotape:

1. Non Musical Noises, 10 sec.

2. Untitled Eternity, 1 min 28 sec.

3. A Wutherance of E, 2 min. 48 sec.

4. We Speak Say Nothing (Looking for the Frog Boys), 2 min. 56 sec.

Joan La Barbara and Kenneth Goldsmith, 73 Poems, 1994, audiotape, 7 min. 42 sec.Excerpt from Poems 1-15.

3 pm

FluxTellus

A program selection by Barbara Moore. Produced as Tellus #24, 1990, audiotape, 65 min. Courtesy of Harvestworks, New York.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape.

George Brecht and James Tenney with George Maciunas, Entrance...(excerpt), 1962, audiotape.

Emmett Williams, Voice Piece for La Monte Young, 1963. Recorded Studio PASS, New York, March 28, 29 and April 4, 1990.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Joe Jones, Flux Music Box, 1966. Recorded Studio PASS, NYC, March 15, 1990.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Jackson Mac Low, A Piece for Sari Dienes, 1960/90, audiotape. Performers: Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

La Monte Young, 89 VI 8 c. 1:42-1:52 AM Paris Encore from Poem for Chairs, Table, Benches, etc., 1960. Performance under the direction of La Monte Young. (Omitted at the artist's request).

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Philip Corner, Carrot Chew Piece Performance, 1964/90. Performer: Phillip Corner.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Dick Higgins, Danger Music Number Seventeen, 1962/90. Performer: Dick Higgins.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

George Brecht and James Tenney with George Maciunas, ...Exit 1962, 1962, audiotape (excerpt)

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

George Maciunas, Solo for Lips and Tongue (ensemble), 1961-77. From a videotape recorded by Larry Miller at The Kitchen, New York, March 24 1979.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Yasunao Tone, Anagram for Strings, 1961/90 (published 1963), audiotape. Performers: Malcom Goldstein, Takehisa Kosugi.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Alison Knowles, Nivea Cream Piece-for Oscar (Emmett) Williams, 1962. Performers: Alison Knowles, Ingrid Dinter. Recorded Studio PASS, NYC, March 29, 1990.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Takehisa Kosugi, Micro 1, 1962. Performer: Yasunao Tone. Recorded Studio PASS, NYC, April 4, 1990.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Emmett Williams, Cellar Song for Five Voices, c. 1960. Presented by the S.E.M. Ensemble. Recorded by Mikhail Liberman at Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC, Feb. 6, 1990.

Thomas Schmit, No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces, 1962/99, audiotape

Robert Watts and Larry Miller, Laff Trace, 1983, audiotape (excerpt). Performer: George Maciunas. Tape collage by Miller from an original audiotape recorded by Robert Watts at Mountainville, New Jersey, 1968.

4.30 pm

Steve Reich, Come Out, 1966, audiotape, 12 min. 54 sec.

Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, Prosthetica 2000, 1999, audiotape, 48 min. Courtesy of the artist and Music + Art Management.

Tuesday, January 18

11:30 am

Peggy Ahwesh, Ode to The New Pre-History, 1984-87, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 22 min

Tim Allen, Untitled, 1990, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 3 min.

Vincent Grenier, Feet, 1994, videotape, b/w, sound, 29 min.

Gail Camhi, An Evening At Home, 1979, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 12 min.

Luther Price, Clown (Part One), 1992, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 10 min.

Peter Kubelka, Pause!, 1977, 16mm film, color, sound, 12 min.

Donigan Cumming, A Prayer for Nettie, 1995, videotape, color, sound, 33 min.

2 pm

Voice Crack

Mindy Faber, Delirium, 1993, videotape, color, sound, 23 min.

Ralph Arlyck, Sean, 1969, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 14 min.

Peggy Ahwesh, Martina's Playhouse, 1989, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 20 min.

Jennifer Montgomery, Home Avenue, 1989, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 17 min.

Curt McDowell, Ronnie, 1972, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 7 min.

Tom Palazzolo and Jeff Kreines, Ricky and Rocky, 1973, 16mm film, color, sound, 15 min.

4 pm

Teenage Wasteland

Joel de Mott and Jeff Kreines, Seventeen, 1982, 16mm film, color, sound, 120 min.

Wednesday, January 19

Noon

Eric Saks, Touch Tone, 1995, videotape, color and b/w, sound, 29 min.

Eric Saks, You Talk/I Buy, 1990, videotape, b/w, silent, 10 min.

Eric Saks, Creosote, 1996, videotape, b/w, sound, 42 min.

2 pm

Destroy the Flower (Cinema of Regression)

Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, Thrust in Me, 1984, Super-8mm film, b/w, sound, 8 min.

Scott and Beth B., Letters to Dad, 1979, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 15 min.

Vivienne Dick, Beauty Becomes the Beast, 1979, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 45 min.

Tracy MacCullion, Gash, 1998, 16mm film, b/w and color, sound, 35 min.

4 pm

In Person with Joe Gibbons

Presences, 1977-, Super-8mm film, color, sound (excerpt)

Confidential, (Part 2), 1980, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 25 min.

Joe Gibbons (with Tony Oursler), Onourown (Part Two), 1989, videotape, color, sound, 30 min.

Spying, 1978-79, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 30 min.

Thursday, January 20

1:15 pm

The Unbelievable Truth

Cauleen Smith, Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron), 1994-95, 16mm film, color, sound, 13 min.

Matthew Buckingham, The Truth About Abraham Lincoln, 1992, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 18 min.

Emily Breer and Joe Gibbons, Moby Richard, 1995, videotape, color, sound, 5 min.

Anne McGuire, Joe Di Maggio 1, 2, 3, 1993, videotape, color, sound, 11 min.

Matthew Buckingham, Amos Fortune Road, 1996, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 21 min.

2:30 pm

Cinema and its Double

Elizabeth Subrin, Shulie, 1997, videotape, color, sound, 36 min.

Interval

William Greaves, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, 1969, videotape, color, sound, 70 min.

4:45 pm

Dots and Loops: Rupture, Rapture, and Rant

John Brattin, Fat Heart, 1990, videotape, color, sound, 30 sec.

Keith Sanborn, Something is Seen But One Doesn't Know What, 1986, 16mm film, color, sound, 1 min.

tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Diszey Spots, 1993, videotape, color, sound, 11 min.

Craig Baldwin, Tribulations 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, 1990, 16mm film, color, sound, 48 min.

6 pm

Peggy and Fred in Hell- Leslie Thornton

Leslie Thornton, Peggy and Fred in Hell; The Prologue, 1984, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 21 min.

Leslie Thornton, Peggy and Fred in Kansas, 1987, videotape, b/w, sound, 11 min.

Leslie Thornton, Peggy and Fred and Pete, 1988, videotape, sepia, sound, 23 min.

Leslie Thornton, (Dung Smoke Enters The Palace), 1989, 16mm film and videotape, b/w, sound, 16 min.

Leslie Thornton, Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory, 1990, videotape, color, sound, 7 min.

Leslie Thornton, Whirling, 1996, videotape, b/w, sound, 2 min.

Leslie Thornton, The Problem So Far, 1996, videotape, b/w, sound, 7 min.

Leslie Thornton, Chimp the Normal Short, 1999, videotape, b/w and color, sound, 6 min.

Friday, January 21

Noon

Phil Solomon, The Secret Garden, 1986, 16mm film, color, silent, 20 min.

Stan Brakhage, A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea, 1991, 16mm film, color, silent, 80 min.

2 pm

Vanishing Point

Sallie Fuchs, It Scares Me to Feel This Way, 1987, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 11 min.

Janie Geiser, The Red Book, 1994, 16mm film, color, sound, 11 min.

Esther Shatavsky Bedtime Story, 1981, 16mm film (18 fps), b/w, silent, 6 min.

Janie Geiser, Hangman, 1985, videotape, color, sound, 11 min.

Joe Gibbons, Barbie's Audition, 1995, videotape, color, sound, 12 min.

Plus a film by Todd Haynes.

4 pm

Lewis Klahr Super-8mm film Series, 1988-1991

Part One: Tales of the Forgotten Future

The Morning Films: Lost Camel Intentions, b/w, sound, 10 min.

For the Rest of Your Natural Life, b/w, sound, 10 min.

In the Month of Crickets, b/w, sound, 10 min.

Part Two: Five O'Clock Worlds

The Organ Minder's Gronkey, color, sound, 16 min.

Hi Fi Cadets, color, sound, 10 min.

Verdant Sonar, color, sound, 2 min.

Interval (20 min.)

Part Three: Mood Opulence

Cartoon Far, color, sound, 7 min.

Yesterday's Glue, b/w, sound, 15 min.

Elevator Music, color, sound, 13 min.

Part Four: Right Hand Shade

Station Drama, b/w, sound, 15 min.

Untitled: The Life of Naomi Lang, b/w and color, sound, 21 min.

Untitled, b/w, sound, 4 min.

Saturday, January 22

Noon

Mark LaPore

Medina, 1983, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 20 min.

Work And Play, 1983, Super-8mm film, color, sound, 20 min.

The Sleepers, 1989, 16mm film, color, sound, 16 min.

A Depression in the Bay of Bengal, 1996, 16mm film, color, sound, 28 min.

2 pm

The Heart Shaped Crater (Lachrimae)

Gunvor Nelson, Time Being, 1991, b/w, silent, 8 min.

Larry Gottheim, Mnemosyne Mother of Muses, 1986, color, sound, 16 min.

Nina Fonoroff, Department of the Interior, 1986, b/w, sound, 8 min.

Phil Solomon, The Snowman, 1995, 16mm film, color, sound, 8 min.

Interval

Erin Sax, Trilogy

Receiving Sally, 1993, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 6 min.

Each Evening, 1993, 16 mm film, b/w, silent, 2 min.

Seven of Worlds, 1994, 16mm film, color and b/w, sound, 19 min.

4 pm

Mr. Dead & Mistress Free

Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, The Deadman, 1990, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 38 min.

Peggy Ahwesh, The Color of Love, 1994, 16mm film, color, sound, 10 min.

Peggy Ahwesh, Nocturne, 1998, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 30 min.

8 pm

Blood of a Poet

William Klein, Broadway by Light, 1958, 35mm film, color, 14 min.

William Klein, Mohammed Ali: The Greatest, 1974, 35mm film, b/w and color, sound, 120 min.

(to be confirmed)

Sunday, January 23

Noon

Abigail Child, Is This What You Were Born For?

Prefaces (Part 1), 1981, 16mm film, color, sound, 11 min.

Mutiny (Part 3), 1982-3, 16mm film, color, sound, 10 min.

Covert Action (Part 4), 1984, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 10 min.

Perils (Part 5), 1986, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 5 min.

Mayhem, (Part 6), 1987, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 20 min.

Both (Part 2), 1988, 16mm film, b/w, silent, 3 min.

Mercy (Part 7), 1989, 16mm film, color, sound, 10 min.

2 pm

Wolf Tones (Songs of a Wayfarer)

Daniel Eisenberg, Displaced Person, 1981, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 10 min.

Lewis Klahr, Marietta’s Lied, 1999, 16mm film, color, sound, 4 min.

Gail Camhi, An Evening at Home, 1979, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 12 min.

Henry Hills and Sally Silvers, The Little Lieutenant, 1994, 16mm film, color, sound, 7 min.

Sharon Sandusky, C'mon Babe (Danke Schoen), 1988, 16mm film, color, sound, 11 min.

Scott Stark, I’ll Walk With God, 1994, 16mm film, color, sound, 8 min.

4 pm

Ray L. Birdwhistell, Microcultural Incidents in Ten Zoos, 1969, 16mm film, color, sound, 34 min.

Ken Jacobs, The Doctor's Dream, 1978, 16mm film, color, sound, 23 min.

Saul Levine, The Big Stick, 1967-73, 16mm film (16 fps), b/w, silent, 11 min.

Craig Baldwin, RocketKitKongoKit, 1986, 16mm film, color, sound, 30 min.

Tuesday, January 25

Videotape, Television, Satellite

11.30 am

Interactivity

Douglas Davis, Street Sentences, 1972, videotape, b/w, sound, 25 min.

Douglas Davis, The Last Nine Minutes, 1977, videotape, color, sound, 9 min.

Douglas Davis, The Longest Sentence, 1997 – , web project.

1 pm

Woody Vasulka, Art of Memory, 1987, 36 min.

A conjoining of war, history and the media. "Constructing a haunted theater of memory from a spectacle of filmic and electronic images, Woody Vasulka collapses and transforms collective memory and history… [in] filmic images of violent events such as the Spanish Civil War, the Russian Revolution, World War II and the advent of the nuclear bomb… History and memory are seen to be manipulated by the history and memory of images".

2 pm

Peter D’Agostino, TeleTapes, 1981, videotape, color, sound, 27 min.

Terry Fox, Children’s Tapes, 1974, videotape, b/w, sound, 30 min.

3.30 pm

The Red Tapes

Vito Acconci, The Red Tapes, 1976, videotape, b/w, sound, 2 hrs 21 min.

"The Red Tapes is Acconci’s masterwork, a three part epic which is one of the major achievements in the video medium…Acconci maps a topography of the self within a cultural and social context, locating personal identity through history, cultural artifacts, language and representation. Stating that the work moves ‘from Vito Acconci to a larger Americanism, between a psychological, personal space and a cultural personal space’, he constructs a dense, poetic text in this search for self and America."

Wednesday, January 26

Video Narratives: 1

11.30 am

The Confessional Camera

From its inception, the video camera was used by artists as a confessional tool. Its informality, and the immediacy of its instant feedback, created a sense of intimacy which encouraged a diaristic expression of private feelings and personal experience.

Maxi Cohen, Anger, 1986, videotape, color, sound, 20 min.

Wendy Clarke, Love Tapes: Series 19, 1982, videotape, b/w sound, 28 min.

Paul McMcarthy with Mike Kelley, Family Tyranny/Cultural Soup, 1987, videotape, color, sound, 15 min.

1 pm

Off Hollywood

De-constructing the cultural codes of mass culture, these three tapes parody the narrative structure of Hollywood, revealing the ways in which meaning is shaped by the cliches of mass media representation.

Rei Tajiri, Off Limits, 1988, videotape, color, sound, 8 min.

Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Fresh Acconci, 1995, videotape, color, sound, 45 min.

Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Made in Hollywood, 1990, videotape, color, sound, 56 min

3 pm

Language

Gary Hill, Why Do Things Get In a Muddle (Come on Petunia), 1984, videotape, color, sound, 33 min.

Joan Jonas, Upside Down and Backwards, 1980, videotape, color, sound, 29 min.

4 pm

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like: The Videotapes of Bill Viola

Bill Viola is one of the key figures in American video art. This program provides the opportunity to view some of his earliest videotapes, as well as The Passing, a major work out of which the themes of some of his later video installations emerged.

Bill Viola, Migration, 1976, videotape, color, sound, 7 min.

Bill Viola, Four Songs, 1976, videotape, color sound, 10 min.

Bill Viola, Reasons for Knocking At An Empty House, 1983, videotape, b/w, sound, 19 min.

Bill Viola, The Passing, 1991, videotape, b/w, sound, 54 min.

Thursday, January 27

1.30 pm

Good Morning Mr. Orwell: the Videotapes of Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik and Howard Weinberg, "Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman, 1995, videotape, color, sound, 30 min.

Nam June Paik, with Betsy Connors and Paul Garrin, Living with the Living Theatre, 1989, videotape, color, sound, 28 min.

Nam June Paik, Global Groove, 1973, videotape, color, sound, 28 ½ min.

3 pm

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I am Saying It

Jud Yalkut, John Cage Mushroom Hunting in Stony Point, 1972-73, 16mm film, color, silent, 7 ¾ min.

"And what is your purpose in writing music?/I do not deal in purposes; I deal with sounds./What sounds are these?/I make them just as well by sitting quite still looking for mushrooms" (John Cage).

Shigeko Kubota, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, 1972, b/w, sound, 28 ½ min.

Nam June Paik, A Tribute to John Cage, 1973, re-edited 1976, videotape, color, sound, 29 min.

John Cage, WGBH (Catch 44), 1971, videotape, color, sound, 31 min.

6.30 pm

A Name for Each Place: Slide Works by Peter Ungerleider

The slide works of Peter Ungerleider occupy a position somewhere between photography and film. The slow transition between one still image and another makes the viewer aware of the cinematic structure of each piece, as well as revealing its difference from film. Each soundtrack plays an important role, providing a temporal counterpoint to the slow pace of the images.

Peter Ungerleider, A Sign, 1978, slide-tape, 8 min.

Peter Ungerleider, Just Like an Old Friend, 1979, slide-tape, 22 min.

Peter Ungerleider, Tom Castro, slide-tape, 1982, 23 min.

Interval

Peter Ungerleider A Name for Each Place, 1985, slide-tape, 90 min.

Friday, January 28

11.30 am

Unclean Obsessions and Ugly Dreams

George Kuchar, Precious Products, 1988, videotape, color, sound, 15 min.

George Kuchar, Weather Diary 6 (Scenes from a Vacation), 1990, videotape, color, sound, 30 min.

George Kuchar, Oasis of the Pharoahs, 1997, videotape, color, sound, 17 ½ min.

George Kuchar, Nirvana of the Nebbisuites, 1994, videotape, color, sound, 11 min.

1 pm

My Failure to Assimilate

Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation Wonderwoman, 1978, videotape, color, sound, 6 min.

MICA - TV, Cindy Sherman, An Interview, 1980-81, videotape, color, sound, 10 min.

Laurie Anderson, What You Mean We?, 1986, videotape, color, sound, 20 min.

Charles Atlas, Butcher’s Vogue, 1991, videotape, color, sound, 4 min.

Charles Atlas, Draglinquents, 1991, videotape, color, sound, 7 min.

Cecilia Dougherty, My Failure to Assimilate, 1995, videotape, b/w and color, sound, 20 min.

Sadie Benning, It Wasn’t Love, 1992, videotape, b/w, sound, 20 min.

2.30 pm

Tongues Untied, Speaking Directly

Marlon Riggs, Tongues Untied, 1991, videotape, color, sound, 55 min.

Interval

Jon Jost, Speaking Directly, 70 min.

5 pm

Demi-Mode

Charles Atlas, Hail the New Puritan, 1985 – 86, videotape, color, sound, 84 min.

8 pm

Fantastic Prayers

Tony Oursler, Constance de Jong, Stephen Vitiello, Fantastic Prayers, 1998, CD-rom performance. (to be confirmed)

Please note, this evening program is a separately ticketed event. Tickets $8, $6 student/seniors. Reservation advised.

Put Blood in the Music

11.30 am

Eric Mitchell, Underground USA, 1980, 16mm film, color, sound, 73 min.

1 pm

Charlie Ahearn, Wild Style, 1982, 16mm film, color, sound, 82 min.

2.30 pm

Christian Marclay, Ghost (I Don’t Live Today), 1985, videotape, b/w, sound, 5 min.

Charles Atlas, Put Blood in the Music, 1989, videotape, color, sound, 75 min.

4 pm

Amos Poe and Ivan Kral, The Blank Generation, 1975, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 57 min.

5 pm

Rock My Religion

Introduced by Dan Graham

Dan Graham, Rock My Religion, 1982 - 84, videotape, color, sound, 55 min.

Patti Smith

Introduced by Patti Smith

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, Still Moving, 1978, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 20 min.

Robert Frank, Summer Cannibals, 1996, videotape, b/w, sound, 5 min.

Please note, the 5pm Dan Graham/Patti Smith program is a single, separately ticketed event. Tickets $10, $8 student/seniors. Reservation advised.

Video Narratives: 2

11:30 am

Richard Foreman, Out of the Body Travel, 1976, videotape, b/w, sound, 42 min.

Robert Wilson, Deafman Glance, 1981, videotape, color, sound, 27 min.

Meredith Monk, Ellis Island, 1982, 16mm film, b/w, sound, 28 min.

Laurie Anderson, Carmen, 1991, videotape, color, sound, 13 min.

The Wooster Group, Rhyme ‘Em to Death, 1994, videotape, b/w, sound, 14 min.

2 pm

Urban Fairy Tales

Joan Jonas, Volcano Saga, 1989, videotape, color, sound, 28 min.

Dara Birnbaum, Damnation of Faust: Evocation, 1983, videotape, color, sound, 10 min.

Dara Birnbaum, Damnation of Faust: Will ‘O’ The Wisp (A Deceitful Goal), 1985, videotape, color, sound, 6 min.

Dara Birnbaum, Damnation of Faust: Charming Landscape, 1987, videotape, color, sound, 7 min.

3 pm

Technology and Nature

Frank Gillette, Hark! Hork! 1972-73, videotape, b/w, sound, 19 min.

Mary Lucier, Bird’s Eye, 1978, videotape, b/w, sound, 23 min.

Frank Gillette, Tempest, 1984, videotape, color, sound, 8 min.

Rita Myers, Correspondences: Day into Night into Day, 1992, videotape, color, sound, 7 min.

Mary Lucier, Ohio to Giverny: Memory of Light, 1983, videotape, color, sound, 19 min.

Steina, Orka, 1995, videotape, color, sound, 16 min.

Paul Ryan, Tapping on Water II, 1999, videotape, color, sound, 10 min.

Peter Campus, Winter Journal, 1997, videotape, color, sound, 6 min.

4.30 pm

Primarily Speaking

Introduced by Gary Hill

Gary Hill, Videograms, 1980-81, videotape, b/w, sound, 13 ½ min.

Gary Hill, Primarily Speaking, 1981-83, videotape, color, sound, 20 min.

Gary Hill, Incidence of Catastrophe, 1987-88, videotape, color, sound, 44 min.

Gary Hill, Site/Recite (a prologue), 1989, videotape, color, sound, 4 min.

Gary Hill, Solstice d’hiver, 1993, videotape, color, sound, 60 min.

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