Gina Osterloh’s new film project, Anonymous Front, is a visual essay on physical blindness and identity, created in collaboration with a vocational massage therapy school for the blind in the Philippines.
Super 8 is a collection of video art in multi-channel formats, selected by a peer-to-peer curatorial process. Eight artists from eight cities across the globe were invited to present their videos, and invited four other artists from their respective cities to join them.
At the point where long-held beliefs fall into decline and once-esteemed notions crumble, questions arise about those belief systems. It is at this point that John-Mark Ikeda begins his exploration of the current economic climate. Ikeda deconstructs the iconic business suit — which he equates with the failed economy — stripping it down to its component parts and pinning it to the wall like a specimen, with accompanying business accessories, in an attempt to reconstitute it as a symbol of power.
By Michael Thomas Director in person
One of the highlights of our summer “Smut Capital of America” series returns, this time with the director in person presenting his own uncut, pristine Kodachrome print. It’s a gritty tale of a bisexual hustler who’ll go to bed with any man or woman who offers him enough money and sexual kicks. Using both sexploitation and art-film aesthetics, Meat Rack is an essential and compelling artifact of pre-hardcore adult cinema. (1968, 70 min, 16mm)
Thu, Feb 16: Post-show Q&A with the artists Fri, Feb 17: After the show, we invite you to join us in celebrating the opening of Mark Bradford and Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large. Hold on to your tickets to gain access for FREE.
YBCA welcomes Argentine writer/director Mariano Pensotti in his first American tour with his highly acclaimed El Pasado es un animal grotesco (The Past is a Grotesque Animal), a funny yet moving portrait of a generation that follows the lives of twentysomething four characters through a decade of economic and personal turmoil in which their dreams collapse and the world around them changes in unexpected ways.
