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All posts tagged "performance art"

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  Performance artist turned post-modern pop singer Laurie Anderson’s “Language is a Virus”

  “Mixing social commentary with deadpan wit, the eclectic Laurie Anderson began as a painter and a performance artist, before crossing over to pop,” says Night Flight’s Pat Prescott in her introduction to three of the performance artist...

  • Posted April 10, 2019
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  Cult-O-Rama: Slava Tsukerman’s new wave, sci-fi & sex-infused 1983 NYC cult classic “Liquid Sky”

  “…Cult movies transcend all categories, and give their audiences something they’ve never seen but always wanted to,” says Night Flight’s Pat Prescott near the end of this 30-minute clip-centric 1988 survey we’re calling “Cult-O-Rama,” now streaming on...

  • Posted November 19, 2018
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  “Mondo New York”: Charlie Barnett captivates a “nice mixed crowd” in Washington Square Park

  “In the 1980s, Charlie Barnett performed raunchy comedy in New York City,” says Night Flight’s Pat Prescott in her introduction to a clip of the NYC street comedian, excerpted from 1988’s Mondo New York, which appears in...

  • Posted May 28, 2018
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  “Warm Leatherette”: Iconic artist Grace Jones’ “sassy tribute to the pleasures of ultraviolence”

  Back in the 1980s, Night Flight occasionally collected some of the most innovative videos by creative music artists who we thought were regularly pushing the boundaries in their art. On September 3, 1988, we shared some of...

  • Posted September 1, 2017
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  “O Superman”: Performance artist Laurie Anderson’s charting 1981 UK hit and video highlights our video profile

  In her intro to Night Flight’s video profile on Laurie Anderson, which first aired in 1985, Pat Prescott says, “Laurie Anderson has brought the avant-garde into pop music’s mainstream. Anderson’s instrument is her body, and in 1982,...

  • Posted June 5, 2017
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  “Extremely Cruel Practices”: Mark Pauline’s colliding metal behemoths as machine performance art

  In 1989, Night Flight creator and founder Stuart S. Shapiro produced IMPACT VIDEO MAGAZINE, a magazine-style home video that featured stories about — among other things — rap music, political humor and underground artists, including performance artist...

  • Posted May 3, 2017
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  Remembering Chris Burden: The incredible artist who forever changed the way we looked at contemporary art

  Today, we’re remembering Chris Burden — he was born on April 11, 1946, in Boston; he grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, France and Italy — an incredible artist who forever changed the way we looked at contemporary...

  • Posted April 11, 2016
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  Ati Maier: “The Map Is Not The Territory”

  We’ve been hearing that Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier, who wears a white spacesuit and orb-like space helmet, was seen riding her orb-mounted horse through NYC over the past several days — searching for places to plant her...

  • Posted June 29, 2015
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