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"art is / Madrid-Complutense" (52 min.) presents twenty-five artists--twenty-three studying as graduate students, one administrator, and one translator--at Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), where Gary Hill and I gave a workshop in 2006. I filmed all the artists in the course (including two auditors, the administrator, and the translator, also artists), each saying what art is in Spanish and in English (to the extent…
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art is (Speaking Portraits)--[Vol. II -- v. 1.0]-- In this continuance of the video art work of “speaking portraits,” artist/poet George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before additional artists, of all kinds and in many places: what is art? In response artists let us in on their private space of art definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for artists to say what art…
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poetry is (Speaking Portraits) [Vol. I--v. 1.4]-- In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for poets/artists to say what poetry or art is…
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music is (Speaking Portraits) [Vol. I--v. 1.4]-- In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” artist/poet/sound-artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before musicians/composers of all kinds and in many places: what is music? In response musicians let us in on their private space of music definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for artists/musicians…
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art is (Speaking Portraits)--[Vol. I -- v. 1.4]-- In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” artist/poet George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before artists of all kinds and in many places: what is art? In response artists let us in on their private space of art definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for artists to say what art is than for others (critics,…
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art is / music is / poetry is… what? Artist/poet George Quasha’s ongoing video work of “speaking portraits” puts this impossible, but inevitable, question before artists/composers/poets themselves, who let us in on their private space of art definition. Over 700 artists (all kinds of artists, including sculptors, painters, filmmakers, video artists, poets, composers, performance artists, and so on) have been recorded on video
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