Category: Fine Art
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Is There No End for a DREAMER?
In the closing minutes of Bresson’s second color film and third Dostoyevsky “adaptation,” the usually perambulatory Jacques silently hunches over two partially painted canvases laid across the floor. Earlier in Four Nights of a Dreamer, the viewer catches a glimpse at a couple such paintings that have been more or less finished: large faceless portraits…
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Dust Drive
A question was posed to me recently. How is it that after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution we have not found any means to deal with the question of dust? The fact that our race has not found a way to effectively circumvent or prevent dust proves we must still have a use…
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Cristin Tierney Gallery Visit + ‘Three Transitions’ Essay Addendum
Political art is dead. And while it is incredibly hacky to declare an entire insitution that no longer holds the cultural gravity that you wish it did as dead—poetry, cinema, music, cultural criticism—nonetheless, my visit this afternoon to the Cristin Tierney Gallery served to strengthen this sort of claim, even if it is a lazy…
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![In the Face of Fire: Peter Campus’s Three Transitions, the Self-Portrait Tradition, and the States of the Arts [Revise-it #2]](https://videophage.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/h8gt8a2.gif?w=480)
In the Face of Fire: Peter Campus’s Three Transitions, the Self-Portrait Tradition, and the States of the Arts [Revise-it #2]
This essay is the second piece I wanted to elaborate on, as I think the readings I teased out have not been previously discussed, to my knowledge, by any of the previous scholarship surrounding this videotape by Peter Campus. This was originally “Response Paper 5” for my History of Video Art class in my final…
