David Hammons
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Phat Free
1999-01-01
Phat Free
Overview: Phat Free begins with several minutes of darkness overlaid with an unidentifiable loud, metallic sound. As the video image is revealed, a man—Hammons himself—appears dressed in a long coat, felt hat, and sneakers, kicking a metal bucket down a deserted city sidewalk late at night. The work was shot in 1995 to document Hammons’s late-night performance and edited into an independent video work four years later. At first seemingly violent, the noise evolves into an almost musical rhythm that is synchronized with the protagonist’s methodical movements. The title elaborates this musical allusion, conjuring both the streetwise lyricism of rap and hip-hop and the improvisational nature of jazz.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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A Look at David Hammons
A Look at David Hammons
Overview: A video of David Hammons making his basketball drawings
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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King David
1978-01-01
King David
Overview: This is a documentary of David Hammons prior to his leaving the Los Angeles arts community. This video covers the artist's creative strategies at that time. It served as both an interview and video performance by David Hammons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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In The Midnight Hour
2010-01-01
In The Midnight Hour
Overview: A studio visit by David Hammons to John Outterbridge's studio. Recorded by Ulysses Jenkins as Hammons proclaims an arts affliction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Dream City
1983-01-01
Dream City
Overview: Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together jazz and punk shows, recitations by Jenkins, and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
1992-01-01
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
Overview: Since the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures, and artists previously excluded from modernism's privileged canons have become absorbed into an ever expanding field of activity and influence. Younger artists are a new breed of cultural scavengers, anything or anyone is fair game for appropriation or reinterpretation. Fascinated by notions of space, time and the human body, artists such as David Hammons, Laurie Simmons and Richard Wentworth have carved their own path through conceptual art.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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