I recently sat on a panel to close out the 2011 Experimental Videoart Festival at Tribeca Cinemas. While I don’t typically situate my work as video art, it was a productive discussion to be a part of, with Kalup Linzy, known for his soap operas in drag, Columbia art professor and filmmaker Shelley Silver, and moderated by the young curator and provocateur Brittany Stanley. Of the works in the festival, I particularly enjoyed What We Call Ourselves by Sarah Scaduto, whose reenactment of childhood gestures captured on video hit similar themes to Knifeandfork’s Hand of God, and the rather musical 8 La Finale by Marco and Saverio Lanza, also seating identity in unconscious elocution. However, Andy Baraf may have been the best conversation partner, a artist from the 80s disgruntled with the tameness of form in the pieces whose own work has an awesome feedback-driven aesthetic. Many thanks to Brittany for the invitation.
