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Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
"Multi-media artist Kelly Mark has long been interested in the obsession of television in our culture and in technology’s gradual replacement of human interaction. Her light box entitled The Kiss was derived from an installation included in her Glow Video Series that Mark produced using reflected light as a primary… ⊕
Throughout the 20th century, the Wereldmuseum (former Tropenmuseum)—Amsterdam’s most prominent museum of ethnography—has accumulated more than 150,000 objects from colonized regions worldwide. Today, these objects are obsessively polished, dusted, and neatly ordered, revealing an underlying anxiety connected… ⊕
Silence is gold. Who needs words in this sea of selfless love.Director's Note: This video provides a glimpse into surreal alternative reality, which is totally disconnected from reality we live in, yet it has influenced our lives a lot. I have done very little to the footage, just cut all unnecessary parts to help the truth of… ⊕
1993, 08:12 minutes, colour
tapecode 066.22
The Skin of Things takes place within the realm of the dream and the subconscious. It is a poetic representation of intimacy and love in the age of AIDS - of the fear of contact, of imprisonment in an infected body, and of the need for physical contact. We see black and white images of someone sleeping; and handwritten notes,… ⊕
2017, 03:24 minutes, colour
tapecode 066.23
An ironic reflection on a theory of conscious agents.