Mirroring its subject's own playful and absurdist sensibility, this portrait of sculptor and performance artist Aki Sasamoto is a fluid hybrid of fiction and documentary—at once a magical realist world of spinning objects and a psychological exploration of fundamental questions about artistic creativity.
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Playlists
Diana Al-Hadid's Suspended Reality
New York Close Up
New York Close Up
Autoconstrucción
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Abigail DeVille's Harlem Stories
New York Close Up
New York Close Up
Pain & Sympathy
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Janine Antoni in "Loss & Desire"
Art in the Twenty-First Century
Art in the Twenty-First Century
"Continuity"
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Liz Magic Laser Feeeeeeeeeeeeels Your Pain
New York Close Up
New York Close Up
"The Kitchen Table Series"
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Playing with Tension
In art, there are moments of many opposite forces converging all in one place. How artists deal with tensions—of materials, of ideas, or even of social issues—might reveal itself in the meaning or the appearance of a work. The films in this playlist demonstrate the creative ways in which artists play with tensions.
by Marela ZacaríasSeptember 28, 2017 8 videos • 56:46 total runtime
Allegory
Performance
In the Studio
Santiago Yahuarcani
Santiago Yahuarcani paints with his family, using materials from the Amazon