New online exhibition presents George Kuchar’s film Going Nowhere, a video diary recording Kuchar’s 50th birthday at his dusty apartment and his melancholic interaction with the world through a screen. The exhibition lasts for a week, 1-7 April, on our website.
Read MoreBrothers Kuchar @ REDCAT Theater
REDCAT is delighted to welcome legendary artist Mike Kuchar for a program of films and videos made by himself and his late twin brother George. Iconic figures who helped define underground film in the 1960s, George and Mike began making no-budget 8mm films in the Bronx while still in their teens. Working with neighbors and friends, the Kuchars created lurid and hilarious takeoffs of Hollywood weepies that made a huge impact on notions of camp and new possibilities for queer cinema, and influenced a generation that included Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, and many others. Mike Kuchar, whose visual art is on display at François Ghebaly Gallery, will be on hand to show recent videos and reminisce.
Read MoreGEORGE KUCHAR @ THE MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
GRIT AND GLITTER: BEFORE AND AFTER STONEWALL at the Museum of the Moving Image (June 21-July 6). The lineup runs the gamut from pre-Stonewall films that were controversial for their portrayals of sexuality (Jack Smith’s “Flaming Creatures,” a pansexual cornucopia that opens the series on Friday alongside two shorts by George Kuchar, was the subject of a censorship clash) to more recent work like Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Tropical Malady”, in which a flirtation gives way, after a mid-film rupture, to something mythic.
Read MoreGeorge Kuchar in Mousse Magazine
The bad artist, in some sense, doesn’t live in this world—“this world” being the sphere of existence governed by a real or imagined consensus—or else, dwells in this world in order to contaminate it, to draw attention to those things ungovernable by the socius. That which is excessive, that which we look away from in disgust. These things, this scum, being the primary focus of artists like Dieter Roth and George Kuchar throughout the duration of their long working lives.
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