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By L ( Elizabeth ) Lawes, on 2 February 2009

Francis Alys: When faith moves mountainsFrancis Alÿs: When faith moves mountains: a 15 minute film from 2002 when 500 volunteers formed a line in order to move a sand dune situated in the surroundings of the city of Lima. 

Focus on Vito Acconci: A poet of the New York school in the early- and mid-1960s, Vito Acconci (b. 1940) moved toward performance, sound, and video work by the end of the decade. Features a number of Acconci’s works, across several mediums, focusing mainly on his 1970s output.

Douglas Huebler: Variable piece 4 New York City: Secrets: PDF of a text from 1973. Also Audio works and radio interviews, 1977-78.

Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt: Mono Lake: 1968-2004, 19.54 mins. Featuring Super 8 film footage and Instamatic slide images of artists Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer and Nancy Holt as they visited California’s Mono Lake in July of 1968, this piece was edited by Holt in 2004.

UbuWeb Podcast 7: Punk Versions of Monkey Chants and Other Ethnopoetic Marvels: ‘Jerome Rothenberg-curated trove of ethnopoetic treasures, focusing on sound’.

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