Whitney Museum of American Art: Watch and Listen: Biennials

2012 Biennial: Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran: BLEED

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:19:17 -0400

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.

2012 Biennial: Tom Thayer

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:33:31 -0400

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.

April 20, 2012 Laura Poitras: Surveillance Teach-In

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:08:53 -0400

Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras explores issues of war, justice, and power. Her current film trilogy, focusing on America post 9/11, documents the Iraq War, secret state surveillance, and the suspension of the rule of law in the “war on terror.” For this evening program, Poitras gives the floor to Jacob Appelbaum, computer security researcher, privacy advocate, hacker, and human rights activist, and Bill Binney, National Security Agency whistleblower. Appelbaum and Binney discuss domestic surveillance and the ways in which technological innovations have allowed for increasingly ubiquitous access into what was once private information. Woven through the Museum, interactive installations by Stimulate allow the viewer a dramatic glimpse of surveillance in action.

2012 Biennial: Nicole Eisenman: Figure Drawing Atelier

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:34:12 -0400

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.

2012 Biennial: Joanna Malinowska: Fieldwork

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:23:47 -0400

In this video, Margie Weinstein, manager of education initiatives, describes 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Joanna Malinowska's public program, Fieldwork.

May 17, 2012 Werner Herzog

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:01:22 -0400

Inimitable filmmaker Werner Herzog, characterized as the “romantic visionary” of New German Cinema, is best known for his unorthodox approach to capturing authenticity in his films—close encounters with danger and submitting cast members to unusual training, among others—as well as his mixture of fact and fiction, in narrative and documentary films alike. The subject of his work, described as “an extended essay on the meaning of meaninglessness,” is often the extraordinary qualities of ordinary things around us. For this program, Herzog discusses his particular contributions to the Biennial and his thoughts on contemporary art with co-curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders.

2012 Biennial: Dawn Kasper

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:21:33 -0400

In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Dawn Kasper discusses her studio residency in the Museum's galleries.

April 27, 2012 Lucy Raven: Standard Evaluation Material

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:01:48 -0400

Lucy Raven explores the nexus of old and new technologies, in projects ranging from sculptural installations and animated films to performative lectures and live television. Her work unmasks the often invisible processes, analogue and digital, that have come to define modern life. For this program, she 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.

2012 Biennial: Thom Andersen

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:37:40 -0400

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.

2012 Biennial: George Kuchar

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:22:43 -0400

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.

2012 Biennial: Oscar Tuazon

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:54 -0400

In this video, Elisabeth Sherman, curatorial assistant for the 2012 Biennial, discusses Biennial artist Oscar Tuazon's For Hire (2012).

2012 Biennial: Moyra Davey

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:33:19 -0400

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).

2012 Biennial: Andrew Masullo

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:42:38 -0400

In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Andrew Masullo discusses his painting process and the difference between the terms "abstract" and "non-objective."

2012 Biennial: Luther Price

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:31:20 -0400

In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Luther Price discusses his handmade films and slides.

2012 Biennial: Liz Deschenes

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:29:49 -0400

In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Liz Deschenes discusses her work with photograms, a type of photographic image made without a camera.

2012 Biennial: Cameron Crawford

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:57:21 -0400

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).

2012 Biennial: Curating the 1993 Biennial

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:19:06 -0400

In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curator Elisabeth Sussman discusses the experience of curating the 1993 Whitney Biennial.

2012 Biennial: Curatorial Process

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:20:19 -0400

In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders discuss aspects of their curatorial process.

2012 Biennial: Working with the Architecture

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:39:38 -0400

In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders discuss the ways artists interacted with the architecture of the Whitney Museum.

2012 Biennial: Curating Performance

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:18:00 -0400

In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders discuss the live performance work featured in the Biennial.

Welcome to the 2012 Whitney Biennial

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:46:49 -0400

In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders welcome visitors to the exhibition.

2012 Biennial: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:27:24 -0400

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).

2012 Biennial: Wu Tsang

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:41:41 -0400

In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Wu Tsang discusses his work in the exhibition, focusing on the feature film WILDNESS (2012).

2012 Biennial: Laura Poitras

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:28:32 -0400

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.

2012 Biennial: Michael Robinson

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:32:18 -0400

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.