Landmarks Video Archive

Landmarks Video presents the most highly regarded and influential works of video art from the past six decades. This page is an archive of every work presented as part of the Landmarks Video program and includes curatorial essays, images, and other contextual information. 

Please note that some videos may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Martha Rosler
Semiotics of the Kitchen
1975

Video
6:09 min, b&w, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Tom Rubnitz and Ann Magnuson
The head of a woman in front of a patterned wall
Made For TV
1984

U-matic video
15:00 min., color, sound
Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

 

Athi-Patra Ruga
Screenshot of Athi-Putra Ruga's "Over the Rainbow (Queens in Exile Series)"
Over the Rainbow (Queens in Exile Series)
2016-2017

Single channel HD video
09:27 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town, ZA

Chen Sai Hua Kuan
Space Drawing No. 7
2010

Digital film
60 sec., color, sound
Courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery, Hong Kong

Zina Saro-Wiwa
A man eating food
Table Manners
2014–16

Video
61:22 min, color, sound
Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary

Jacolby Satterwhite
A still from Jacolby Satterwhite's video "Healing in My House" which shows a computer generated structure.
Healing in My House
2016

3D animation and video
9:26 min., color, sound
© Jacolby Satterwhite, Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

Hiraki Sawa
Screenshot of Hiraki Sawa's "Dwelling"
Dwelling
2002

Digital single channel video
9:20 min., b&w, sound 
Copyright Hiraki Sawa. Courtesy James Cohan, New York

Markus Schinwald
Orient
2011

Looped, two-channel HD video
09:00 min. each, color, sound
Courtesy the artist and Yvon Lambert Gallery

Carolee Schneemann
Film still of woman crying
Viet Flakes
1965

Film on video
7 min., toned b&w, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
© Carolee Schneemann/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York