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The Enclave

Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish

2013

Between Science and Garbage

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this singular mul

2004

Goya's Gaze

A psychedelic essay on Goya's paintings, image and sound. The stippled ceiling acts as noise in the images.

2024

Isolation

A meditation on isolation through paint textures, video collage and sound

2021

Things That Were There

Experimental video art compiled from video taken on an LG Env3 flip phone circa 2009-2010

2023

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory pos

1999

Re-enactment

For this work Alÿs purchased a gun in Mexico City then walked through the city streets with the weapon in his hand. After eleven minutes he was arrest

2000

El resto es porno

2023

The Meme Machine

An exploration of the origins of memes, how they spread, and the stories behind some of the most popular “human memes” like Ermahgerd Girl, Overly Att

2016

The Highs and Lows of Ken Bone's Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Ken Bone became an overnight sensation after participating in a Clinton-Trump town hall in 2016, but the excitement of the moment came with some unexp

2020

Star Wars Kid: The Rise of the Digital Shadows

Ghyslain Raza, better known as the “Star Wars Kid,” breaks his silence to reflect on our hunger for content and the right to be forgotten in the digit

2022

Karikpo Pipeline

The Karikpo masquerade - a traditional dance of the Ogoni tribe - is transposed onto the remnants of a faded oil industry programme in the Niger delta

2015

Samples II

In “Samples II”, Alÿs walks around London with a drum stick in his hand, playing the sounds of metal fences beside him.

2004

Music in the Afternoon

Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title. Conra

2002

#Trumpsplaining vol. 1

a movie about Donald Trump, Martian technopolitical fictions, Facebook/Youtube algorithmic rabbit holes, white male online radicalization & prank-pret

2019

Memorial

A memorial mourns as time passes

2022

I Am Scared As Hell

Experimental video art shot in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle

2022

Projections

The innovative and influential British filmmaker Derek Jarman was invited to direct the Pet Shop Boys' 1989 tour. This film is a series of iconoclasti

1993

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art

2019

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much

1984