Video / Art

Chris Cunningham always takes an interesting turn on his videos, commercial spots, and basically everything he puts a video camera into. Nobody doubts that Cunningham is a real modern artist, watching visual creations done for people like Björk or Aphex Twin, and he’s experience goes not only on the music videos but on commercial spots and diverse installations and short films such as ELECTROMA made for Daft Punk or Rubber Johnny for Aphex Twin. He also has done publicity spots like Flora Perfum for Gucci and my personal favorite Mental Welth for PlayStation.

Now he comes back with a video installation he made for MoMA taking a 10 minute remix of New York Is Killing Me from Gil Scott-Heron’s new LP “I’m New Here”. Gil Scott-Heron is a poet and baritone singer, and there’s something about he’s writing and he’s voice that takes you places. Also the visual experience of Cunningham makes this installation in MoMA a thing worth trying. Consists in images of NYC, very minimalistic for usual Cunningham taste, but in the end a collage of multi directional images produce a sort of vertigo that goes amazing with Gil lyrics and the whole vibe…I really hope you enjoy this one.

You can grab de video on http://chriscunningham.com/