Blind Alley

06.01.2020 18.39 In this installation Alfredo Jaar meditates on the events of June 1, 2020, six days after police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old Black man. One of the many peaceful protests following Floyd’s death took place in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square, near the White House. In order to facilitate a photo op for former President Donald Trump raising a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church adjacent to Lafayette Square, U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered federal forces to clear the area. They subsequently fired on the peaceful protestors with tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets. They also flew two helicopters so low to the ground that the wind created by their rotors broke tree branches and scattered debris.

Tchin! Over the course of a day, people meet and chat in a coffee shop.

You2bu: Bankrupts' Club Seon Woo is a poor loan shark who raises his daughter alone. He is swindled by his cousin Min Woo, and even his life is in danger. The solution that came out of his head is YouTube! Gathering debtors who couldn't pay their debts and aiming for a jackpot! Hungry Monk, a former chef who is in debt due to COVID-19, Vivian, who failed while trying to focus on her boyfriend, Muscle Rabbit, who became penniless while investing to escape his first single life, even Manju, a fraud programmer from Seoul National University. All kinds of people gathered for the YouTube production! They're going to make a hit on YouTube as planned. Will he be able to escape his detestable life?

The Han Flows A woman who fought with her boyfriend and a man who was tricked by a friend. Both are in the Han River about to end their lives.

Treasure Hunt In search of a mysterious treasure, three women embark on an adventure through magical and playful vignettes.

Impermanence

Ruby Nell Sales “How do you make sense on an emotional, intellectual, and pragmatic level of the visual residue one leaves behind?” This is a pivotal question for Adam Pendleton’s recent abstract paintings on view here, which involve a process of accumulation in which the surface of the canvas teems with sweeping gestures, language, drips, splatters, and moments of erasure in a reflection of how we evolve in life. Pendleton has explained that these works “verge on the monumental; they can take months to make and capture a deep history of marks and impressions. Minor moments become major moments because of how they articulate who we are or who we might be at any given moment. It’s a visual poetics of disruption.” These paintings, Pendleton has suggested, ask: “how do you leverage, subvert, and deploy your subjectivity? We all are doing it all of the time. It becomes more interesting when we’re aware that we’re doing it.”

Your Eyes Will Be an Emp... This video by Coco Fusco includes footage of the artist traveling by boat around Hart Island, the site of New York’s public cemetery that was operated by the city’s department of corrections until October 1, 2021. Since 1869, prison labor has been used to bury more than a million New Yorkers in mass graves on the island. Many individuals have been buried anonymously—especially during epidemics. Fusco’s video features a meditation she wrote on the conditions of the current pandemic and is performed by poet Pamela Sneed.

Yvon Deschamps - Un Voya...

Wong Fei-Hung Tries His ... Starring Tak-Hing Kwan as Wong Fei-Hung