Airing nightly Feb 1 – Mar 31, 12 am CST:

Platform 2: Voice by group, 2013

Use this self-hypnosis video to find your personal mantra. Recommended viewing in full screen in the dark with headphones.

group is a two-person stage performance using 90 minutes of original music and projected video. Drawing upon conventions of rock concerts, spiritual rituals, yoga classes, team-building exercises, self-help seminars and group therapy, this immersive audiovisual experience leads participants through a series of activities designed to generate intimacy, physicality and energetic connection between them. The audience will participate in karaoke chanting, breathing exercises, guided meditation, aerobic routines and more as they progress through our 7 platforms:

AGREE – VOICE – CONTACT – DIGEST – ACT – BREATHE – RELEASE

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Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, 9:10 am CST:

Pressure Systems, 2013

The Lite is a new meditation series optimized for the adult contemporary lifestyle. Join Liteworkers Cosmic and Nina as they meditate on the improbable world we live in. Listen in your car or while watering your succulents. Sit back, zone out, and let us take you to Pakistan.

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 2:

Platform 5: ACT by group, 2013

Implement this workout video into your daily exercise regiment. Recommended viewing with a small group of your favorite gym buddies.

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 3:

Positive Reinforcement: A Relaxation Meditation for Animals, 2013

A short guided yoga meditation for pets and their friends.

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The Preparation, 2014

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 4:

You May Like, 2014

The Lite is a new meditation series optimized for the adult contemporary lifestyle. Join Liteworkers Cosmic and Nina as they meditate on the improbable world we live in. Listen in your car or while watering your succulents. Sit back, zone out, and never diet again.

 

 

The Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) is an art collective led by Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt and Nina Sarnelle, dedicated to the development of new ways of feeling, and ways of feeling new. IfNf creates artwork in the form of treatments, therapies, retreats, research studies and products that play with the corporate manipulation of human desire. 

The members of IfNf have collectively presented work at Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Commonwealth and Council, Thank You for Coming, Los Angeles; Open Engagement Conference, Queens Museum of Art, Envoy Enterprises, Printed Matter, Anthology Film Archives, Invisible Dog, Microscope Gallery, Ortega y Gasset, NYC; the Warhol Museum, the Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, VIA Festival, Pittsburgh; Space Gallery, Portland, Maine; Kijidome, Boston; The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center;  Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Monkeytown 4, Denver; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL, among others. Upcoming residencies include Recess Session in NYC, and Cannonball Miami. 

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Sidewalk, 1975, 13:04-minute video

“Like Walking SoHo, Sidewalk tracks along a section of a SoHo street. The camera follows the point where the sidewalk meets the buildings, panning in a strange, jilted movement. It is interrupted by pauses during which we can just barely see a figure reflected in a screen: Davidovich himself, editing in his studio, collapsing this private (professional) setting onto public space (the city outside). Sidewalk is closely related to the artist’s earlier video Road, 1972, as well as the contemporaneous Baseboard, 1975, both of which methodically trace preexisting lines across space (in Road, the double line dividing directions, and in Baseboard, the juncture between the wall and floor of his studio). While Sidewalk is certainly representative of Davidovich’s formalist approach to video art in the mid-1970s, it is also quite literally connected to the space and information in the city where it was filmed.” – Daniel Quiles 

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 1

Blue, Red, Yellow, 1974, 34-minute video

“In this conceptual performance, Davidovich “paints” on an electronic canvas in the three primary colors of the color wheel, by covering a snow-filled TV screen with adhesive tape: first blue, then red, then yellow. Davidovich first exhibited this work at Anthology Film Archives in 1974.” –EAI

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 2

The Live! Show—QUBE Episode, 1980, 10:32-minute public-access television excerpt

“Enjoying another bottle of wine on Manhattan Cable Television, accompanied by co-host Carol Stevenson, Davidovich encourages real-time viewers to experiment with the Warner QUBE cable system. First broadcast on Channel J in 1979, The Live! Show was equal parts playful and utopian, brimming with optimism about an expanded, participatory audience for art on television. In this episode, one caller is made “director” and makes choices as to zooms and special effects, while the QUBE audience is polled for their preference of camera (a binary choic, Camera 1 or 2). This is a playful, tentative exploration of a brand-new technology, but one that recalls Marshall McLuhan’s insistence that television is a “cool,” participatory medium. With the viewers effectively in charge of the program, Stevenson inquires, a bit awkwardly, how Davidovich got his scar. No answer is provided.” – Daniel Quiles

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 4

¡Saludos Amigos!, 1984, 21-minute public-access television excerpt

“In this, one of the final episodes of The Live! Show and a collaboration with Texas Tech University, Davidovich travels to Lubbock, Texas. His “people in the street” interviews touch on racism and Mexican-American relations in addition to the usual queries about video art and its possibilities for transmission on television. The title is taken from the 1942 Walt Disney film that emblematized the “good neighbor” years of U.S.-Latin America diplomacy, only in this case, Davidovich locates his “friends” within the borders of the United States.” – Daniel Quiles

Airing Thursdays and Fridays Mar 19 – 27th, 7 pm CST

 

Power / Point

In this short video essay exploring the sculptural potential of digital space, the physical body and the computer cursor collide in a struggle to manipulate each other. Incorporating actions within Microsoft PowerPoint, there is a sense of frustration at the relentless banality of such digital software. Human actions start to echo pre-determined digital procedures.

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 1

Screensaver

Screensaver explores a bodily relationship to digital imagery in our internet age. Drawing on notions of instructionals, live streaming, pop-ups and infomercials, in this video piece the sheen of the internet screen tumbles in on itself. The work circles around the concept that one can order online a .jpg printed on to a towel. What happens when a digital image is physicalized in this way and rubbed in the body? Will the body become a pixelated .jpg? And what if we try to feed such objects back in to the digital world?

Exploring these questions, the video takes you through floating landscape of digital debris. Sliding across the screen are verbatim recitals of chat room conversations about towel printing, discussions of .jpgs and duvets, videos painted on to nails via iCloud nail polish, spinning 3D CAD scans of towels and YouTube tutorials on how to make CGI towels.

All of these scenes are framed by the karaoke version of the song ‘I Believe I Can Fly’ whilst a hand cursor ‘flies’ towards an iCloud symbol across the empty void of the screen. Images of hands run throughout. In a world populated with touchscreen phones, we want to stroke and feel images, but when can we fly up to the iCloud?

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 3

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This series of videos explores preparedness in our society, in addition to the everyday challenge of resisting change and maintaining control. It examines fear generated by a world of non-stop technological development, global climate change, and mass media focused on economic uncertainty in consumer culture. 

The overall look of these videos purposefully harkens back to 1960’s flight attendant uniforms and instructional films. Using humor, these videos explore the idea of preparing for the future as a means of exercising control. The videos range from serious responses to post-terrorism working environments to post-apocalyptic wilderness survival to more fantastical situations including extraterrestrial communication.

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 1:

Communicating with Media and Authorities After a Crisis
Isolation
Extraterrestrial Non-Verbal Communication
Decipherment
Creating Smoke Signals

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 2:

Preparing for Bioterrorism
Crisis Management Questions
How to Build a Hasty Shelter
Evacuation
Maintaining Motivation After a Terrorist Attack

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 3:

Physical Training
How to Preserve a Severed Limb
How to Escape When Tied Up
Preparing for a Soccer Tournament

Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 4:

How to Pass a Bribe
Estate Planning
Preparing for the Holidays
How to Build a Snow Cave
How to Find Water In the Wilderness

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