Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

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.

The Raw Feed presents work from three artists who explore the issues of globalization and dislocation, focusing on the ways in which we are given sustenance. The project includes an interactive rice factory that examines the politics of grain production and world hunger; a multidisciplinary video installation that takes a critical look at the messages fed to us by the United Nations; and a pop-up café built on a bicycle chassis that connects food with personal narratives of dislocation through a collection of war-time recipes. The act of feeding ourselves has served as the basis of ritual, connection and artistry for as long as we've lived in societies, and The Raw Feed brings together these disparate strands of shared experience in an exploration of what sustenance means.

The rock band on the stage, the athlete on the soccer field, the politician at the podium — all command the attention of huge crowds, not to mention cameras. Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large turns the lens back on the audience, exposing the dramatic and narrative potential of the crowd itself.

By Juan José Lozano and Hollman Morris
Impunity documents a highly controversial trial against Colombian paramilitary leaders accused of killing thousands of civilians. When the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are uncovered, however, the process comes to an abrupt halt, leaving the victims’ families wondering whether they will ever know the truth surrounding the deaths of their loved ones, and whether they will be able to fight the perpetrators’ impunity. (2010, 85 min, digital)