I am Making Art Too!

This video addresses John Baldessari’s 1971 video-performance piece, I am Making Art, with humor and scrutiny. The younger artist, Miller, brings Baldessari’s tai chi-esque movements into contemporary times by transforming his original meditative gestures into breakdancing moves. Miller then inserts herself into the new video footage and dances around Baldessari. Missy Elliott’s Work It backs up the new Baldessari-Miller collaborative dance. The three artists (Baldessari, Elliott, and Miller) form a new collaboration. The video approaches a variety of questions relating to: women’s roles in art history, artistic authorship, younger artists’ attempts at appropriation/homage, the nature of the artistic gesture in video art.