This fall marks the fifteenth season of Landmarks Video, a curated program of highly regarded and influential video art from the past seven decades. Running September 2024 - August 2025, the new season showcases ten video works by national and international artists.
Each screening is accompanied by a scholarly essay written by Landmarks’ Video curator Kanitra Fletcher. Essays contextualizing the nearly 150 previously screened videos are available on Landmarks’ Video Archive.
Highlights this season include iconic works such as Fischli & Weiss’ Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go) (1987), in which the artists document the activation of a 100 ft Rube Goldberg machine, utilizing materials such as tires, tea kettles, and balloons moved through gravity, small explosions, and other elements; as well as recent works including Sky Hopinka’s Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021), a lyrical meditation on the memory of place, space, and the impacts of colonial inquisition on indigenous land and culture.
As a special event this fall, Landmarks will partner with the Department of Art and Art History to host artist Janine Antoni for a public lecture on campus. The artist’s visit will coincide with the Landmarks’ screening of her video work, Touch (2002), in which the artist appears to walk on the horizon using a slackline. The lecture will be free and open to all. Additional information, including the date and time of the event, will be available in the coming weeks.
The full season is as follows:
- Sept. 2024: Fischli & Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1987
- Oct. 2024: Janine Antoni, Touch, 2002
- Nov. 2024: Antonio Muntadas, Marshall Reese, Political Advertisement X 1952-2020, 2020
- Dec. 2024: Ximena Cuevas, Contemporary Artist, 1999
- Jan. 2025: Sky Hopinka, Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, 2021
- Feb. 2025: Jefferson Pinder, Afro-Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise), 2008
- March 2025: A young Yu (in collaboration with Nicholas Oh), Morning Rituals, 2020-2022
- April 2025: Yoriko Mizushiri, Anxious Body, 2021
- May 2025: Arash Fayez, I Can Only Dance to One Song, 2021
- Summer 2025: David Ellis, Animal, 2010
Videos are on view in the ART building atrium located on the corner of East 23rd street and San Jacinto Blvd. The ART Building is open Monday through Friday (8 AM – 5 PM).
Image: Still from A young Yu (in collaboration with Nicholas Oh), Morning Rituals, 2020-2022