Skip Arnold

Skip's Manifest

The emphasis is on space and how/what my body does or can do. The work ranges from being extremely physical to extremely passive.

To explore the relationships between self, place, and particular time.
To explore fundamental gestures and concepts.

My interest is the image and nothing else.

I work in media that are evanescent, transient, consumed in passing, not collected.

What is common to all my work is "Skip." Skip is the artwork. The act of doing, my actions, my choices.

Bio

SKIP ARNOLD

Born	Binghamton, New York; lives and works in Paris, France
1984	MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1980	BFA, State University College, Buffalo, NY

AWARDS / GRANTS

2003	Durfee Foundation, ARC grant
1995	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1993	National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
1992	Art Matters Inc., Fellowship for Performance
1992	Brody Arts Foundation, Fellowship for Performance
1990	Foundation for Art Resources, (FAR), Grant for video

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1997-2017	Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Studio Fine Arts and Liberal Arts and Sciences, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
2013	Senior Lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
2005-2007	Visiting Faculty, ECOLE National Superieure D’ARTS Paris - Cergy
2000	Visiting Faculty, Video/ Multimedia/Performance, FaVU VUT Academy of Art, Brno, CZ

SOLO PERFORMANCES / EXHIBITIONS

2018	Truffle Hunt, ICA LA, Los Angeles, CA
2017	plus ou moins, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016	"Hulahoop" Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2015	"Skip Arnold CHINA" and other ephemera... LAMOA (Los Angeles Museum of Art) @ The Armory, Pasadena, CA.
2014	"Skip Arnold Bout This.", Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.
2013	Window24_Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2012	"Head Shaking 2", Skoda Palace and New Town Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
2007	“Skip Arnold Video Films 1983-2007”, Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2005	“Skip Arnold Documents” University of Houston, Clear Lake
2004	“The Last few Years…and then Sum” galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris Skip Arnold, Kunsthalle Wien, Video Wall
2003	“Speciman circa 2003” Tea Building, F EST & Union Projects London
2002	“Wall Piece”, ACE Gallery, NYC, NY. “An Occurrence in Centre Square”, Nova Zamky, SK “Gruezi”, Art\|33\|Basel, Basel Switzerland
2000	“DETAILS” Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA “SKIP ARNOLD PERFOMANCES/VIDEOS/PHOTOGRAPHS/DOCUMENTS” Galerie MXM, Prague, CZ "DOCUMENTS AND VIDEOS 1982-2000", Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "PERFORMANCES/VIDEOS/PHOTOGRAPHS/DOCUMENTS," Aeroplastics, Brussells, Belgium
1999	"SKIP ARNOLD", Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY "SKIP ARNOLD," Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, France
1997	"THE EVIDENTIARY FILE", Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
1996	"FACADE", Art & Public, 35 rue des Bains, Geneva, Switzerland
1995	'SKIP ARNOLD," Burnett Miller, Santa Monica, CA
1994	"OFFICE," Exit Art, NYC "SPIN," Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1993	"LIVING QUARTERS/CONDUCTING BUSINESS," Unfair, Koln, Germany "FREIGHT," shipment via crate from Linz, Austria to the Unfair, Koln, Germany "STATUE," an activity dealing with the architectonics of the exterior of the Kim Light Gallery and La Brea Avenue, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July 7, 8 APPENDAGE, Greene Street, NYC
1992	"DIZZY," video sculpture, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA "PUNCH", video sculpture, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA "HOOD ORNAMENT," activity as the hood ornament of a Kenworth eighteen-wheel truck, March 14, Sun Valley, CA "GARGOYLE," an activity using the architectonics of the southern exterior of the Otis Gallery at Otis School of Art and Design, sponsored by Los Angeles Exhibitions '92 (LAX 92)
1990	"SHOOT ME,” all-day activity wearing "Shoot Me" T-shirt, Los Angeles, CA "APPENDAGE," activities: root to a tree and a telephone pole, Part of "Witness L.A./Testigo, L.A."Sponsored by Highways, Santa Monica, CA.
1987	"CLOSET CORNER," an activity performed at the Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986	"SCARE CROW," an activity performed at Russell’s Flats, Conklin Forks, NY 4.13.86
1985	"CONTAMINATION," documented activity done at the Hollywood Reservoir "THUNDERBALL," an activity performed at Oranges and Sardines gallery, sponsored by the ICA (Independent Composers Association)
1984	"THE PLAGUE," performance, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "MARKS," performance, Studio One, MP/TV, Los Angeles, CA
1983	"THE PLAGUE OF GRIEVESORES," performance, Anti-Club, Los Angeles, CA.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019	"ec·dy·sis" ll @ ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
2019	"ec·dy·sis" Curated by Shirley Morales, at CASSTL & Antwerp Art Pavilion/ Museum aan de Stroroom. Antwerp, Belgium.
2016	"The People's Cinema", Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
2015	Older Than Jesus, Audrey Love Gallery @ BAC, Miami FLA
2014	Raking the Through, No Space @ Bikini Wax, Mexico City "Part II", Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. "Full House", 100 Artists, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
2012	"Under Constant Threat", Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2011	“Second Story \| new editions” Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. “Greater L.A.”, curated by Elenor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
2010	“No Show”, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY “15 minutes of Fame”: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. “Mystics Circle”, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA. “Kill Your Timid Notion Festival”, Dundee Contemporary Arts, (DAC), Scotland, UK
2009	“100 Years (version #2, PS1)”, PS1, Long Island City, NY “The MexiCali Biennial 09/10” , La Casa del Tunel Art Center Tijuana, Sala de Arte de la UABC Galeria Comunitaria Mexicali Rose Mexicali, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Design, Los Angeles (2010) “Hurt So Good”, Rowan University Art Gallery, Rowan University, N.J. “We Inturupt This Program”, Mercer Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada “17 Continents”, Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
2008	“Un-figuring the Body” University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA. “Black and white” – Part 2, galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris, France “California Video” curated by Glenn Phillips, The J. Paul Getty Museum
2007	“Til I Die”, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NYC, NY “Evidence of Movement”, co-curated by Jennifer Dunlop-Flecher and Glenn Phillips, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
2005	“Transformations”, galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris France “Agir proch” Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, France “Unspeakable”, Aeroplastics galerie, Brussels, Belgium
2004	“Auto-repeat”, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. “Le corps en perspective”, galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris
2002	“Final Frontier”, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City, NY “Art Unlimited”,Art 33 Basel, Basel, Switzerland “Full Nelson Number 4”, Los Angeles, CA
2001	“Exit Festival”, Helsinki, Finland “2nd Open Performance Festival”, Beijing, China
2000	“Made in California 1900-2000”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2000	“Recontre, Internationale d’Art Performance de Quebec”, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada “Prague Steamroller 2000”, Prague, CZ
1999	“Venus” ARC Galerie, Wien, "Bone 2," Performance Festival, Bern, CH
1998	"Larmes artificielles", Galerie Montenary-Giroux, Paris, France, curated by Muriel Colin-Barrand. "Identity Crisis, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City, NY
1997	@," Satellite Gallery, Long Island City, NY, curated by Willoughby Sharp "Sunshine & Noir: Art from LA, 1960-1997," Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (traveling to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Hayward Gallery London, U.K., Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, and
1997	UCLA at The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA) "The Road Show," Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY "Angel Hair: Ex L.A." Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1996	The Basel Film and Video Forum, Basel A topic site "On Camp/Off Base, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Satellite, Paris (with Vincent Friot) "Menu du Jour," Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY "Sampler 2," David Zwirner, New York, NY
1995	"How is Everything?” Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, curated by Edwin Wurm and Martin Walde "Endurance," Exit Art, New York, NY "Skip Arnold-Sigrid Hackenberg," Roger Merians Gallery, NY "Cadeux Paquets," Gallerie Satellite, Paris, France "Persistent Dispositions - Technetronic Identities," California Institute of the Arts
1994	"Courage," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, curated by David Leslie "Let the Artist Live," Exit Art, New York, NY "Breda Fotographia '94," Breda, Netherlands
1993	"On Display ," Performance Relikte & Sedimente," Offens Kulturhaus, curated by Gottfried Hattinger, Linz, Austria, (catalogue) "Sampler," curated by Paul McCarthy, David Zwirner, New York, NY "Influx," Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago, IL "Sampler," Studio Guenzani, curated by Paul McCarthy, Milan, Italy "Summer Punch 93," Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992	"LAX 92," Otis Gallery at Otis School of Art and Design, sponsored by Los Angeles Exhibitions '92 (catalogue)
1991	"European Media Art Festival," activities made for TV, Osnabruck, Germany, (catalogue) "No More Heroes," San Francisco Cameraworks, San Francisco, CA, "Body Forth," American Gallery, Los Angeles, produced by FAR
1991	Foundation for Art Resources) and L.A. Freeways, CA "There Between Here," INFERMENTAL 10, Osnabruck/Skopje, Germany
1990	"Laughing Matters," (Activities made for TV, excerpts 1983-1990), Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Witness L.A./Testigo, L.A.," sponsored by Highways, Santa Monica, CA activities: root to a tree and a telephone pole "December," American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "European Media Art Festival," Activities made for TV, Osnabruck, Germany, (catalogue) "Mimicking Our Perceptions," New American Makers, San Francisco, CA "Scan Lines," The Screening Series at DCTV, New York, NY
1989	"The LACE Annuale," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA "Hot Tamale Picture Show," University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1988	"A Sculpture in a Fountain," UC Installation/Performance at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA L.A. Steamworks, "Boiling Water," CRASH, Phoenix, AZ "No TV, #7," aired summer 1988, Rochester, NY, sponsored by Visual Studies Workshop
1987	Steam Show, "Boiling Water," July 4th at L.A. Boiler Works Factory, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED ACTIVITIES, FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS

2020	“For all the Wrong Reasons”; Curated by Aimee Goguen & Mariah Garnett at REDCAT (CalArts’ downtown center for the arts), Los Angeles, CA.
2019	Becoming an Object: An evening with Skip Arnold at LADA (Live Art Development Agency), hosted by Dominic Johnson. London, UK.
2018	History is a moment : Pour une définition manifeste de l'Art conference at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR. JUMP / ROLL / HOPSCOTCH, 8410 Sunset Blvd. Electronic Billboard, Los Angeles, CA
2016	Blickle archive Series #15: Skip Arnold, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
2014	Expo Videos @ Expo Chicago 2014 "FILM COLOGNE", Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
2011	"SKIP ARNOLD \| Portrait Paris December 2004 & Portrait #2 Paris. December 2004", Pepin Moore Gallery, in conjunction with the third annual Perform! Now! Festival, Los Angeles, CA.
2006	Mobilization; “How to Destroy the Universe” Part lV, San Francisco, Oakland. “Mirror Mirror”, Aeroplastics galerie, Brussels, Belgium
2002	7a *11d International Performance Festival. Toronto, Canada “Palace Theatre, Part of the Cast”, 2002, Los Angeles, CA.
2001	“Cleaning in CHINA”, 2nd Open Performance Festival, Beijing, China
2000	“A Modernist Picture”, 3 Day Activity, October 2000, Rencontre Inertnationale d’Art Performance de Quebec, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada Activity: At the End of My Rope, September 2000, Prague Steamroller 2000, Prague, CZ Activity: Looking Down On You, May 2000, Aeroplastics Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
1999	"Marquee",: March 5-7/99, Kunsthuas Glarus, CH. 7. Internationale Performance Konferenz
1997	"Shower",: 4 Day Activity, Grammercy International Contemporary Art Fair, NY
1996	Activity: B.T. Exploration, (Bermuda Triangle) Activity: Window Dressing, Basel Art Fair
1993	Activity: On Display, " Performance Relikte & Sedimente," Offens Kulturhaus, curated by Gottfried Hattinger, Linz, Austria Activity: Appendage, 3:00-6:00pm, Nov. 5, wrapped to telephone pole, downtown Los Angeles, CA
1992	Activity: Gargoyle, December 5, Southern exterior of Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Activity: Hood Ornament, March 14, Sun Valley, CA
1990	Activity: Shoot Me, 3 days in September, Downtown, South Central, Echo Park, Venice and other major areas of Los Angeles, CA Activity: Appendage, 3:00-6:00 PM, November 5, wrapped to a telephone pole, downtown Los Angeles, CA Activity: Appendage (root to a tree), Eagle Rock, Pacific Palisades Park, Santa Monica, CA Activity: Appendage, 9:00-12:00 PM, May 12, wrapped to a telephone pole, downtown Los Angeles, CA
1988	Activity: Imitation, September, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY Activity: Study for Sculpture in a Fountain, November 11-December 24, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
1987	Activity: Closet Corner, Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986	Activity: Scare Crow, April 14, Sunset, 20 minutes, Conklin Forks, NY Activity: Dirt Piles, April 1986 - November 1987, New York, NY
1985	Activity: Contamination, November 17, Hollywood Reservoir, Los Angeles, CA Actrivity: Skip Eats an Olive, Norris Jr. Cancer Center, LAC/USC Medical Center

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2020	Johnson, Dominic, “Rudimentary Things: Becoming an Object in the Performances of Skip Arnold,” in Art History, 43.3 (2020), pp. 538-63.
2009	X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly; 1 Image 1 Minute. Summer 2009 Volume 11 #4, organized by Micol Hebron Black Sphinx: On the Comedic in Modern Art, by John Welchman, Simon Critchley, Jessica Chalmers, Janet Whitmore, p.176-191, “Your Confession Booth is my soapbox: on Skip Arnold” essay by Jan Tumlir.
2008	Phillips, Glenn ed., California Video: Artists and Histories, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2008, pp.26-29
2007	Neal, Jane, Skip Arnold @ Christine Konig Gallery, Modern Painters, July/August, 2007
2005	Ferre, Sylvie, “Skip Arnold, L’Espirit Californien A Paris” BLOC NOTES, Avril 2005, p. 20. Lyon, France
2004	onestar press; "SKIP ARNOLD CHINA" Gerald Matt, Handlungsanweisungen, “What is Art good for?”, ed.Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. Printed in Germany, 2004 Harry Bellet, Le Monde, “les performances de Skip Arnold” Nov. 27, 04
2002	“Art Unlimited” Art\|33\|Basel Catalog Harry Bellet, “Frenesie d’Art et d’achates…”Le Monde, June 14, 2002
2000	Tracey Warr, editor; Amelia Jones, surveyor, THE ARTIST’S BODY, Phaidon Press, London p. 91, Photo Inside Cover Nys Dambrot, Shana, "Pushed to an Abject Edge," dART International, p. 27.
1999	"Installaction," Inter Art Actuel #74, pp. 14, 15, Quebec Roth, Charlene, "Abject Edge: Recent American Figurative Art," New Art Examiner, December, pp. 54-55 Labelle, Charles, "Escape Trajectory", World Art, Issue 20, pp. 40-45.
1998	Williams, Gregory, Review, "Sifting Through the Evidence", PAJ, Jan, 1998 Vol. XX, No. 1 pp. 71-75
1997	Turner, Grady T. Review, "Skip Arnold at Spencer Brownstone", Art in America, October, pp. 118-119. Levin, Kim. Review, Village Voice, April 1, p. 12 "Skip Arnold: The Bermuda Triangle," 10-page documentation, Zingmagazine, Autumn/Winter, 1996/97
1996	"Endurance Art," Performing Arts Journal, #54, September 1996, p. 69 "The Bermuda Triangle: Girls in bikinis get fucked all day," Artland International, vol. 2, nr. 2 Von Fellenberg Walo. "Does Art Stick? ART 27/96," Blick, June 12, p. 12 Genoud Adelita. "When naked Art Puts a Move on the Magistrates," Tribune de Geneve, June 3, p.26 CB."Nude Art Ends at the Police Office," Journal de Geneve, June 3, p. 11 Troester Christian. "Power of Masochism," Die Woche, May 17, p.30
1995	Hess, Elizabeth. "No Exit Art," Village Voice, October 11 1992-1995, Offenes Kulturhaus, Performance: Relics and Sediments, 12/1993", (catalogue) p. 73 Reid, Clavin. "Skip Arnold and Sigrid Hackenberg," Art in America," June, p.104
1994	Butler, Kateri, "Long Gone Train," L.A.Weekly, February 4-10, p. 150 Hess, Elizabeth, "No Exit Art," Village Voice, October 11 "Unfair-Art Cologne-Saatchi Collection," Flash Art, Volume XXVII, no. 174, January/February, p. 51
1993	Mikulan, Steve. "Like a Little Boy in His Fort,", Visions, Winter issue, p. 37 "Performance Relikte & Sedimente," Offens Kulturhaus, curated by Gottfried Hattinger, Linz, Austria, (catalogue), p. 56-59
1992	Willette, J.S.M., "A conversation with Skip Arnold, video artist," Artweek, November 19, vol. 23, no. 28, p. 22 and front cover Curtis, Cathy, "Of Makeup and Motion," Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, Calendar Section, October 9, p. 26 LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition 1992 catalogue, Director for the Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, p. 75, 84, 119
1991	"No More Heroes", SF Camerawork Quarterly, Summer/Fall, p. 11, 26 European Media Art Festival, exhibition catalogue, Osnabruck, P. 26
1990	European Media Art Festival, exhibition catalogue, Osnabruck, p. 45
1989	"Metropolis," (television interview and presentation of work), TV1, Madrid, Spain
1987	Tucker, Tim, Interview, Shiny International, No. 2, New York
1986	"ya got tits...," Spectacle, Fall issue "fuck the horizon," LAICA Journal, Winter issue "Iwantagirlfriend," High Performance, Winter issue
1985	Grady, Kraig, "Interrogation," Spectacle Magazine Mikulan, Steven, "Spitting Images," LA Weekly, September 13-15, p. 8 "you wanta get hurt?", Spectacle, Fall issue

Performance documents

"Untitled" (Handrail) / May 19, 2018

History is a moment : Pour une définition manifeste de l'Art conference at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR.

Head Shaking / Feb. 9th, 2009

Paris, France
Intent: to shake my head so hard and so fast that it would seem like my eyes are standing still.

Doorstop / 2006/2007

Aeroplastics Galerie, Brussels, Belgium.

Mirror Mirror / April, 2006

Activity for opening exhibition. Aeroplasics Galerie, Brussels, Belgium.

Speciman circa 2003 / 2003

Tea Building, F EST & Union Projects London.

An Occurance in Center Square / 2002

Nove Zamky, SK.
Intent: to fit within the landscape of the square.
There was an eeriness in the square that attracted me, to be able to have my body attract that same eeriness was the interest.
To fit within the landscape.

Gruezi / June 2002

On the occasion of Art Basel/33 & Art Unlimited, Basel,CH.
Performed every day during the duration of the fair and exhibition.
Intent: to welcome people to the fair and exhibition- Grueze- welcome- take a look around, make yourself comfortable...

Looking Down On You / May 7, 2000

Aeroplastics Galerie, Brussels, Belguim.
A three hour activity using the glass ceiling of the Aeroplastics Galerie, Brussels, Belgium.

Marquee / March 5-7, 1999

Glarus, Switzerland.
Intent: To be the "Marquee" (sign) at the entry way for the 7.
Internationale Performance Konferenez held at the Kunsthaus Glarus.
Performed for 2 to 3 hours at the beginning of each day of the konferenz.

On Display / December 1-18, 1993

Offens Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria.
Intent: to be experienced as a fetish (part of a collection). To offer myself as object, as something collectable. To be displayed like an object in a natural history museum.
Contents: 20 mm thick acrylic, steel stand, skip, total, 720 mm x 855mm x 470 mm.

Appendage / May 7, 1993

6pm-9pm. Greene Street, New York City.
I am nude facing in at the pole, 3 feet off the ground, wrapped with three layers of translucent plastic.
Intent: to be part of something, to be common place.

Statue LA / 1993

Kim Light Gallery.

Gargoyle / December 5, 1992

An activity utilizing the architectonics of the southern exterior of the Otis Gallery, Los Angeles Exhibitions '92 (LAX).
Performed from dusk to dark.

Shoot Me / September 8, 1990

An all day activity in which I walked through and visited most of the major Los Angeles areas, i.e.. South Central, Echo Park, Venice, Downtown, etc.
Mode of Intent: to see if anyone would shoot me.
Worn on 3 separate days in September.

Appendage (Root to a Tree) / 1990

Intent: to be part of something, like an arm to a body/chair.
In this case a root to a tree.
The interest is to be common place.
Performed over a 2 to 3 hour period.
Performed twice: once in Eagle Rock, CA and once in Pacific Palisades Park in Santa Monica, CA.

Study for "A Sculpture in a Fountain" / November 11, 1988 - December 24, 1988

An activity performed at LACE Gallery in Los Angeles.
Intent: to build a working fountain and be the sculpture in the center of the fountain.
Height 11", Diameter 9 1/2 feet.
Materials: 3/4" plywood, 2 x 2"s, galvanized steel, 30 gallon reservoir, 3/4 " horse motor, centrifical pump, heating element and hoses.

Closet Corner / 1987

Intent: to suspend my body between tow boards and have the boards tilted in a corner.
An activity performed twice in my studio and once at the third floor entrance of the Variety Arts Center, 5/87.
When people first enter the space they see that I am suspended (about 6" off the ground) by the pressure of the clamps.

Scarecrow / April 13, 1986

An activity performed on Russell's Flats, Conklin Forks, NY at sunset; 20 minutes.

Videos

running in place / 2020

Digital video, color, sound. 15 sec.

Whipping #2 / 2017

Digital video, color, silent. 4 sec. 5 minutes loop.

Hulahoop series / 2015

Digital video. Color, sound. 30 sec.

Floating 1 / 2014

September 24, 2014, 12:21:56.
Digital video. Color, sound. 3 sec.

Floating 2 / 2014

September 24, 2014, 2:22:56.
Digital video. Color, silent. 1.5 sec.

action #6 / 2013

Digital video, color, sound, 16:9 format.
Action 6 is like a prank. A prank on Judd.
Like a fish out of the water.
It’s a bit odd, to make you smile, for a second, in passing. It’s kind of funny but they it’s not. It sticks with you but you wish it didn’t.

action #5 / 2013

Digital video, color, silent, 16:9 format.
To be the subject and to become the object, in this case kind of like a fetish, like a McCracken.
There is a medical, haunting aspect to it. I am a subject and the object, something to study/objectify.

Head Shaking #2 / 2009

Color, Silent. 3min. 27sec.
Intent: to shake my head so hard and so fast that it would seem like my eyes are standing still. I shot the film at 16 frames per second and I transferred it across to DV at 16 frames per second.

Paris December 2004 / 2004

2 min. color, silent

The films premise:
Self-portrait of me in my studio in Paris on a December Sunday evening. The activity is of me consuming, smoking, drinking- just a typical evening.
I have cut all the actions of my hands entering the frame- it’s kind of twitchy. Reminds me a bit of Francis Bacon and a bit of the Warhol’s portrait after he was shot, I forget the artist’s name that made the painting. These were not reference points it’s just something I noticed after the fact. If anything it really sits there a bit with the screen test films by Warhol

Portrait #2 Paris December 2004 / 2004

color, silent, 60 seconds

An Occurance in Nove Zamky / 2002/2004

Black & White, silent, 2min. 4sec.
56 hours of skip in Nova Zamky, Slovakia.

Excerpts from the Axis Powers tour / 1993/2004

color, silent, 9 min. 25 sec.
Video film concentrates on my experiences in Linz, Austria and Vienna.
Also included "On Display" an activity performed in Linz Austria.

Cleaning in China / 2002/2004

Color, silent, 3min. 40sec.
From my explorations and activities in China from Beijing to somewhere inside Sichuan province.
The video film focuses on the performance “Cleaning in China”.

Jumping / 1989

(from the series)
1 min. 20 sec., color, sound.
Live activity made for TV.

Jump / 1988

2 min. B&W (tinted), silent.
An activity in which I jumped off a roof in Hollywood Ca.
The piece was shot in super "8" film and transferred to video.
All post-production was done in video (slow motion, tint, editing).

Roll / 1986

55 sec., color, silent.
An activity made for TV. Performed at Saint Patrick’s Wall, NYC.
Intent: to deal with the architectonics of a given space, in this case, the wall.