Kiki Smith Squatting the Palace

An Installation by Kiki Smith in Venice

This video takes a circular approach to an artist who works in overlapping spirals of creative energy. Smith works in her home not in a space specifically designed as a studio but on the 2nd floor of her East Village townhouse. There, amid her books, a pet bird, and small kitchen, Smith goes from drawing to collaging to modeling clay to painting plaster casts and back, again and again, moving from one discipline to another in a way that can seem aimless to a casual observer, but which is actually the modus operandi of a highly sophisticated visual artist.

Over the course of the video, it becomes apparent that many of the pieces Smith is creating including sculptures, photographs, prints, and furniture fashioned from liquor boxes are intended for an eight-room installation at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Italy, to open contemporaneously with the 2005 Venice Biennale. We see Smith collaborating with artisans fabricating her sculptures and observe her daily interactions with her assistants. We then follow Smith to Venice and witness the complex installation of her exhibition, which proves to be an integral part of the conceptual whole. The video culminates in a detailed look at the completed exhibition, Homespun Tales: Stories of Domestic Occupation, widely regarded as one of the most successful exhibitions that summer in Venice.

Kiki Smith’s work in sculpture, prints and drawings has been the subject of numerous museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. Her graphic work was celebrated in Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, and Things at MoMA, New York, and a mid-career survey, A Gathering: 1980-2005, organized by the Walker Art Center, traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

$29.99/ $150.00 SRP/Edu
Catalog #MC-863 UPC 880198086396
ART/ARTIST - 2006 - 45 MIN

Simone Forti:

An Evening of Dance Constructions

An ARTPIX release.

In the spring of 1961 Simone Forti presented a program titled Five Dance Constructions and Some Other Things in a concert series organized by her friend, composer La Monte Young, at the New York loft studio of Yoko Ono. These radically new dances created circumstances for the performers’ direct, non-stylistic actions. Each of the pieces was performed in a different place in the loft, with the audience moving from location to location to view them. Some of the pieces required elementary structures – a hanging rope, rectangular wooden boxes – which were placed throughout the loft like a sculptural installation.

In 2004 the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles invited Forti to re-create these dance constructions at the Geffen Contemporary space, in conjunction with the exhibition A Minimalist Future Art as Object 1958 – 1986. This DVD documents that evening and includes Huddle, Slant Board, Platforms, See Saw, Roller Boxes and Accompaniment for La Monte’s 2 Sounds and La Monte’s 2 Sounds. The soundtrack of La Monte Young’s 2 Sounds has been re-mastered and the composer’s notes accompany the video. In addition, there is a question and answer session with Forti at the conclusion of the performances.

Split Sides - Merce Cunningham Dance Company MC#980

Trisha Brown Early Works:1966-1979 MC#525

Empire of the Eye

The Magic of Illusion

The Magic of Illusion is a film about how we see, what we see, or what it is we think we see. Al Roker guides us on a journey into the secrets of illusion, utilizing special effects to illustrate the artistic and visionary discoveries of the Renaissance. While Copernicus and Columbus were changing our understanding of the world, the Renaissance masters were dramatically changing the way we see that world. The film uses new technology to look at old masters in new ways.

	Jean Nouvel MC#793

Primal Grill^™ with
Steven Raichlen, Volume Two

He’s back! Steven Raichlen, award-winning author of the best-selling Barbecue Bible and host of the popular Barbecue University, returns to Public Television with a sizzling new collection of recipes and grilling techniques from his all new season of Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen.

This DVD brings you the best of the best from these shows shot on location at the beautiful Esplendor Resort and Country Club at Rio Rico in southern Arizona. You’ll love having these irresistible recipes inspired by Steven’s travels around the world, including Wood – Grilled Veal Chops with Catalan Vinaigrette from Spain, Smoke – Roasted Leg of Lamb Provencale, Kalbi Dui (Butterflied Korean Grilled Short Ribs), Coconut Shrimp Kebabs, the “Real” Baba Ganooj, and Brazilian-Style Rib Roast stuffed with cheese, vegetables and sausage.

And more! Meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, even fruit – Steven grills it all. There’s even a detailed demo on how to cook a salt-crusted Colombian-style beef tenderloin right in the embers and how to spit-roast an entire whole hog, the way they do it on the Greek Islands. If you love to eat, if you’re crazy about smoking and grilling (or want to learn how to do it better), Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen, Volume Two™ is guaranteed to become a prized part of your culinary library. Enjoy!

Programs included on Volume Two:
    On the Bone
    By the Sea
    From the Garden
    In the Fire
    On the Rotisserie