Whitney Biennial 2012
In this vlog, educator and artist Christine S. Kim discusses visionary painter Forrest Bess, whose work was curated in the 2012 Whitney Biennial by artist Robert Gober.
In this video, 2012 Biennial artists Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran perform during the second day of BLEED, their five-day residency on the Museum’s fourth floor.
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Tom Thayer discusses the link between an early 20th century artist colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey and his work in the Biennial.
In this Surveillance Teach-In, award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras is joined by computer security expert and privacy advocate Jacob Appelbaum and National Security Agency whistle-blower Bill Binney to present an artistic and practical commentary on living in the contemporary Panopticon.
In this video, Margie Weinstein, manager of education initiatives, describes 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Nicole Eisenman’s public program: a figure drawing workshop with live models.
In this video, Margie Weinstein, manager of education initiatives, describes 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Joanna Malinowska’s public program, Fieldwork.
For this program, inimitable filmmaker Werner Herzog discusses his contributions to the Biennial and his thoughts on contemporary art with co-curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders.
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Dawn Kasper discusses her studio residency in the Museum’s galleries.
For this program, Lucy Raven shares a series of rarely seen test films—snippets of narrative assembled only for the technical information they contain, dating from the 1940s to today. These sights and sounds—seldom seen or heard outside of a film projection booth—tell alternate stories about the moving pictures and how we view them.
In this video, Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, the co-curators of the film program of the 2012 Biennial, discuss the work of Biennial artist Thom Andersen.
In this video, Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, the co-curators of the film program of the 2012 Biennial, discuss the work of Biennial artist George Kuchar.
In this video, Elisabeth Sherman, curatorial assistant for the 2012 Biennial, discusses Biennial artist Oscar Tuazon’s For Hire (2012).
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Moyra Davey discusses her photographic series on view in the exhibition, Mary, Marie (2011) and We Are Young and We Are Friends of Time (2011).
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Andrew Masullo discusses his painting process and the difference between the terms “abstract” and “non-objective.”
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Luther Price discusses his handmade films and slides.
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Liz Deschenes discusses her work with photograms, a type of photographic image made without a camera.
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Cameron Crawford discusses his work in the exhibition, focusing on his sculpture making water storage revolution making water storage revolution (2012).
In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curator Elisabeth Sussman discusses the experience of curating the 1993 Whitney Biennial.
In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders discuss aspects of their curatorial process.
In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders discuss the ways artists interacted with the architecture of the Whitney Museum.
In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders discuss the live performance work featured in the Biennial.
In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders welcome visitors to the exhibition.
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses her work in the exhibition, focusing on her self-portraits in the Homebody Series (2010).
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Wu Tsang discusses his work in the exhibition, focusing on the feature film WILDNESS (2012).
In this video, Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, the co-curators of the film program of the 2012 Biennial, discuss the work of Biennial artist Laura Poitras.
In this video, Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, the co-curators of the film program of the 2012 Biennial, discuss the work of Biennial artist Michael Robinson.
In this video, Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, the co-curators of the film program of the 2012 Biennial, discuss the work of Biennial artist Laida Lertxundi.
In this video, Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, the co-curators of the film program of the 2012 Biennial, discuss the work of Biennial artist Kevin Jerome Everson.
Kids can hear directly from artists as they talk about the thoughts, processes, and ideas behind their work in the 2012 Whitney Biennial exhibition.
This audio guide allows visitors to hear directly from artists as they discuss the thoughts, processes, and ideas behind their work in the 2012 Whitney Biennial exhibition.
