[spectre] video competition: The Residents at MoMA

[Andreas Broeckmann]

08/16/06 <http://www.e-flux.com>

MoMA



The Residents: The River of Crime,
an online community art project
Submissions requested August 15–September 15
<
http://www.moma.org/residents> http://www.moma.org/residents

The Residents: Re-Viewed
October 19–23

The Museum of Modern Art
11 W. 53 St. (212) 708-9480
<
http://www.moma.org/film> http://www.moma.org/film






You are invited to take part in an online project with The Museum of 
Modern Art and The Residents. The famously anonymous multimedia 
visual artists and musicians seek video to go with their audio.

Between August 15 and September 15, visit< http://www.residents.com> 
http://www.residents.com to download the audio excerpt from The River 
of Crime episode 1 and read the directions for submitting your clip.

The Residents and MoMA curator Barbara London will judge submissions. 
On October 1, thirty shortlist videos will be posted on YouTube.com.

London and the Residents will select the final videos for screening 
at MoMA on October 19. YouTube popularity will be taken into 
consideration in the judging process. On October 20, the selections 
will be posted on< http://www.moma.org/residents> 
http://www.moma.org/residents


The Residents: Re-Viewed
October 19–23

This survey features the musical videos and films of The Residents. 
Originally from Louisiana, they moved to San Francisco in the early 
1970s and formed Ralph Records. With wit and rarified electronic 
inventiveness, The Residents fuse a dark storytelling tradition of 
the South with an eccentric countercultural spirit of the Bay Area. 
The exhibition includes material such as Eskimo (1979), the bizarre 
2002 Demons Dance Alone show, and footage from their ambitious 
Vileness Fats film project, which was reluctantly cancelled after 
four years (1972–76) of filming.

Throughout their thirty-year history, The Residents have cloaked 
their lives and music in obscurity. Band members (always four in 
number) refuse to grant interviews, do not identify themselves by 
name (or even individual pseudonyms), and never appear without masks 
(usually giant eyeballs with top hats.) Their management team, The 
Cryptic Corporation, coordinates their productions and tours.

A representative will introduce the opening program and discuss The 
River of Crime, their recently released downloadable "Crimecast" 
series modeled after radio dramas of the 1940s.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 W. 53 St. (212) 708-9480
<
http://www.moma.org/film> http://www.moma.org/film


TERMS AND CONDITIONS: IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE, YOU MUST REVIEW AND 
AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS GOVERNING SUBMISSION TO YOUTUBE, 
WHICH MAY BE LOCATED AT< http://www.youtube.com/t/terms> 
http://www.youtube.com/t/terms, AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS 
GOVERNING SUBMISSION TO MoMA, WHICH MAY BE LOCATED AT< 
http://www.moma/residents> http://www.moma/residents, EACH OF WHICH 
ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY OF 
THESE TERMS, THEN PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT MATERIALS FOR THIS PROJECT.


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