This fall marks the sixteenth season of Landmarks Video, a curated program of highly regarded and influential video art from the past seven decades. Running September 2025 - August 2026, 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 of the new season include iconic works such as Electric Earth (1999) by Doug Aitken, which follows a young man wandering the outskirts of Los Angeles, haunted by the constant hum of electricity; Cuentos Inconclusos – Unfinished Tales (2022) by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia, featuring a cast of found-object characters sourced from flea markets and thrift stores, unfolding in whimsical, enigmatic, and occasionally unsettling vignettes; and Laurie McDonald’s The Dying Swan (1975), which showcases the artist performing the titular ballet on a frozen lake, returning the swan to its natural habitat. Three works this season are on loan from the Rachofsky Collection in Dallas.
As a special event this fall, Landmarks and the Department of Art and Art History will host artist Adeline de Monseignat. On October 20 at 7 PM, Monseignat will join Landmarks Founding Director Andrée Bober for a free, public conversation at First Light Books. The artist’s visit will coincide with Landmarks’ screening of her video work In the Flesh (2016), inspired by Professor Alison Leitch's essay Visualizing the Mountain (2007). In the video, the artist embodies “The Sculpture,” a figure composed of marble skin and human flesh, giving form to the intimate, bodily relationship between human and stone.
2025-2026 Season:
- Sept. 2025: Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia, Cuentos Inconclusos – Unfinished Tales, 2022
- Oct. 2025: Adeline de Monseignat, In the Flesh, 2016
- Nov. 2025: Carole Frances Lung, Frau Fiber vs. the Circular Knitting Machine, 2015
- Dec. 2025: New Red Order, Never Settle: Calling In, 2020
- Jan. 2026: Laurie McDonald, The Dying Swan, 1975
- Feb. 2026: Christian Jankowski, The Holy Artwork, 2001
- March 2026: Rineke Dijkstra, Annemiek ( I Wanna Be With You), 11-02-97, 1997
- April 2026: Doug Aitken, Electric Earth, 1999
- May 2026: Simone Forti, Solo No. 1, 1974
- Summer 2026: 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 Laurie McDonald’s, The Dying Swan, 1975