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.

A woman with a hat covered in snakes.

Marina Abramović and Charles Atlas

SSS, 1989
Serbian, born 1946 and American, born 1958

Video
06:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited 
May 2016
Exhibited 
May 2016
Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Theme Song, 1973
American, born 1940

Video
33:15 min., b&w, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited 
January 2013
Exhibited 
January 2013
A picture frame around a man holding a writing utensil

Terry Adkins

Synapse, 2004
American, 1953–2014

Video
18:01 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the Estate of Terry Adkins and Salon 94, New York

Exhibited 
September 2015
Exhibited 
September 2015
A harem scene in the clouds with a flying pug octopus and snake goat pig

AES+F

Inverso Mundus, 2015
Formed in 1987

HD Video 
38:20 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artists, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, and Mobius Gallery

Exhibited 
November 2017
Exhibited 
November 2017
A still from "The Great Silence" which shows a parrot looking at the camera with a subtitle underneath.

Allora & Calzadilla

The Great Silence, 2014
American, born 1974; Cuban, born 1971

Single channel HD video installation
16:22 min., color, sound
© Allora & Calzadilla; Courtesy Lisson Gallery

Exhibited 
November 2021
Exhibited 
November 2021
A pixelated face

Max Almy

Leaving the 20th Century, 1982
American, born 1948

Video
11:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Exhibited 
March 2018
Exhibited 
March 2018
A woman on a stool looking at a person with a mustache

Laurie Anderson

What You Mean We?, 1986
American, born 1947

Video
20 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Exhibited 
June 2011
Exhibited 
June 2011
Eleanor Antin

Eleanor Antin

The Little Match Girl Ballet, 1975
American, b. 1935

Video
26:30 min., color, sound
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited 
December 2014
Exhibited 
December 2014
A person writing on a piece of paper.

John Baldessari

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971
American, 1931-2020

Video
32:21 min., b&w, mono
Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Exhibited 
June 2016
Exhibited 
June 2016