Lindsay Lawson Work from Das Ding (and others). “The thing in itself (das ding an sich) is an object independent of the senses. It is a thing without a viewer: tangible, but not perceivable. This video mimics the famous pottery scene from the movie Ghost when Sam (who is a ghost for most of the […]

  Stephanie Davidson Work from Collage and Gifs. “Stephanie Davidson’s works are, for lack of a better word, super bratty. Like she totally knows it, too. It’s loaded with post-modern irony lost in the throes of youthful know-it-allness. (My Swedish friend calls them: Besser-Vissers. Better knowers? I always liked this invented word.) It’s kinda like […]

Jillian McDonald Work from Horror Make-Up. “IT was a sweltering Saturday afternoon on an L train hurtling across Manhattan toward Brooklyn. The last car held the usual assortment of characters: two women shrieking about a recent outing to a hardware store while a man lounged before them, guffawing; a young woman hiding behind sunglasses and […]

Josh Azzarella Stills from Untitled #1 (Fantasia). “Known for his video and photography manipulations of monumental news imagery, including the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and the Tiananmen Square protests, Josh Azzarella is a whiz at altering and erasing history. The artist’s latest project, which was two […]

Maurizio Catellan Work from his awesome oeuvre. “Maurizio Cattelan has been described as an art-world joker; an artist/funnyman who, following avant-garde tradition, repeatedly transgresses the accepted boundaries that define the art system and society in general. The humour in his theatrical and wilfully anarchic gestures, such as stealing the contents of an Amsterdam art gallery […]

Kelly Mark Work from Horridor, The Kiss, and REM. ______________________________ Review of Horridor can be found here. A new work created for Scotia Band Nuit Blanche 2008, Horroridor is a 6-channel dvd installation utilizing found footage from various genres including horror-thriller-sci/fi-action-drama-comedy. The installation examines Hollywood’s construction of the reaction to the unknown. Horroridor strips away […]

JK Keller Works from Tantamount, and Insecurity Envelopes, and A Fictitious Argument Emerges Between Coriolis & Beaufort Work from his massive and thouroughly engaging website. Keller’s work is a collection of pieces  interventions into reality that serve to recontextualize objects, images, and media. Also see his blog. Tantamount: “Photographs of mountains are computationally altered to flatten […]