Video artists can be such divas...

March 10, 2006 2:48 PM

DIVA 2006The Digital & Video Art Fair just opened in New York (nytimes) some highlights if you don’t live in the New York area, or have a better way to spend $10: Martin Sastre’s BOLIVIA 3: Confederation Next (Barney represents Matthew Barney, see here he is slaying Sastre with a lightsaber) part of his Iberoamerican Trilogy; Vincent Goudreau’s Sub-Paradise – about sugarcane farming in Hawaii (excerpted .mov here); My Favorite – ‘Panoscopic’ images by Luc Courchesne. more inside.
posted by jrb223 (11 comments total)

Alexander Reyna's Beta [0382]
posted by jrb223 at 2:49 PM on March 10, 2006

Geert Mul’s Look At Us
posted by jrb223 at 2:49 PM on March 10, 2006

Peter Finnemore's Project Jedi
posted by jrb223 at 2:51 PM on March 10, 2006

You may have meant this link for the Sastre saber slaying... although I still have no idea what it means.
posted by Squid Voltaire at 2:55 PM on March 10, 2006

Helga Steppan, Kuo I-Chen, Stefanie Schneider, Tim White-Sobieski, Tang Maohong, Ruud van Empel. *phew*
posted by jrb223 at 2:55 PM on March 10, 2006

I did mean that link. Sastre's film seems to be somewhat bitter over Barney's success and Sastre's obscurity, and plays it out as some sort of epic postmodern duel between the two.
posted by jrb223 at 2:56 PM on March 10, 2006

oops. and the Iberoamerican trilogy link should go here.
posted by jrb223 at 2:57 PM on March 10, 2006

Matthew Barney is a pretentious hack.
posted by stenseng at 5:12 PM on March 10, 2006

matthew barney is NOT a hack. pretentious? I won't try to argue against it. I'm a fan, but there's plenty of room for believing he's pretentious. but a hack? not remotely. the man's cinematographic technique is beautiful and various (which is another way of saying he's a virtuoso) and his set and costume design is AT LEAST a cut above your average hack, whether you like the final product or not.

but sastre is REALLY jealous because he's not married to bjork.

either way, I really wish I weren't broke. I desperately want to see this.
posted by shmegegge at 5:22 PM on March 10, 2006

just for shmegegge then. I bought a ticket, but they never checked it. Just go to then third floor of the embassy suites and walk around... um... i never said that.
posted by jrb223 at 7:42 PM on March 10, 2006

hehe, DIVAS is the name of the degree track I'm on it school, and it loosely connects with this sort of thing. Cool post.
posted by drezdn at 10:30 PM on March 10, 2006