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Showing videos filed under: Edge of Art
Remi Kanazi: The Do's and Don'ts of Palestine
April 12, 2011Poet Remi Kanazi shares some of the instructions given to activists for Palestinian causes.Karen Finley: The Reality Shows
April 2, 2011"We should be asking that question--we should be looking at how we are going to fund culture..." says performance artist Karen Finley, whose lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts made her into a national icon against her will after her grant was denied on the basis of the subject matter of her art. In her new book, The Reality Shows, and in her performances, Finley takes on different personae to explore traumas, and teaches people to get in touch with their own experiences.J. Hoberman: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
March 26, 2011What does Invasion of the Body Snatchers have to do with the Cold War? Why do so many people know about Ayn Rand? These are just a few of the questions that Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman takes on in his new book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War.Tom Morello: World Wide Rebel Songs
February 25, 2011Tom Morello brought a musical message of solidarity to the Wisconsin protesters last week, along with other musicians like the MC5's Wayne Kramer. And it wasn't just his own message that he carried to Madison with him--Morello read a letter from Egypt to the crowd that came to hear him play. As the protests continue in Wisconsin and Republican officials in other states bend, we bring you more of Morello's message.Tom Morello: Putting Wind in the Sails of the Struggle
February 22, 2011"Today on the Capitol steps, what we did there was create a little bit of the world we'd like to see," says Tom Morello, musician with Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave and solo performer as The Nightwatchman. He joined the protests in Wisconsin to help lift the spirits and support the protesters, and he notes that this struggle is historic. "This is a shining example, for working people across the United States to not just hold dearly to the rights they have, but let's do some advancing of those rights as well."Alice Mizrachi: Artist's Responsibility
February 18, 2011Alice Mizrachi isn't just an artist--she's a community organizer, too. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, Mizrachi's shown her work around the world, and yet her favorite canvas is New York's walls. Mizrachi's built a global network of women artists as co-director of the Younity Arts Collective, and now she's working with young people. This piece was produced by Rebecca McDonald, and special thanks to Noisemaker Media for the music.Ken Bowser: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
January 15, 2011"Phil was always a little ahead of the curve," says Ken Bowser, the director of a new documentary on 1960s protest singer Phil Ochs. Ochs wrote and performed folk music in its heyday, weighing in on major political issues of his time and connecting with other singer-activists around the world, from Bob Dylan to Chilean singer Victor Jara. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune talks to people, from Sean Penn to Christopher Hitchens, who were touched by Ochs's music and who knew the singer, who took his own life in 1976 at age 35.Philippe Petit: Somebody Has to Trespass
December 24, 2010Philippe Petit is probably best known for walking on a tightrope suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. He was arrested as soon as he came off the wire, but his act was captured in the Academy Award-winning film Man on Wire. Petit has continued to perform on the high wire, as well as to draw, teach, and to challenge himself constantly. "If you are not taunted by artistic challenge at least once a day you're dead," he says.The F Word: Banning Art, Forgetting the Artists
December 3, 2010This Wednesday was World AIDS day, but instead of honoring the lives lost to the disease, Republicans are attacking art that reflects on it. They're targeting a show at the National Portrait Gallery called Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.Got Docs: Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
November 20, 2010"At that time, a Bank of America was something that you burned down. You didn't want to be designing banks." Those are the words of Chip Lord of Ant Farm, a radical architects collectivewith a "South Park sensibility," whose work during the 1960s and 1970s redefined what architects do. Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is a new documentary by Laura Harrison and Beth Federici that looks back on the escapades of Ant Farm, including their most famous work, Cadillac Ranch.
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