John Adams
1953 (73 года)Bob & Jill
John Adams
‘Bob & Jill’ forms a collage of several, seemingly separate, narrative strands: naturalistic interviews with art students reflecting on the reception of their work; a faux interview with the artist acting the part of a successful businessman; scenes of a man making breakfast; and a text about a bourgeois couple whose complex problems are conveniently solved.
Bob & Jill
Sensible Shoes
John Adams
An invisible woman recites an interior monologue. She speaks about what she sees when flipping through different channels on TV, and what she reads when browsing through a magazine. She blends these distracted descriptions of media with thoughts on a past romantic experience and the possibility of a relationship with a new acquaintance. On screen, we see shots of a TV set surrounded by a dark room. The channel is frequently switched; the images on screen sometimes complement the woman's story and sometimes expand it in unexpected directions. Shots of a young man (played by the artist) turning towards the camera and pointing a gun towards the viewer are interspersed with the collage of TV clips.
Sensible Shoes
Intellectual Properties
John Adams
'Intellectual Properties' is a noir about romantic meetings, betrayal, surveillance and intrigue. But it is also a deconstruction of these genre tropes. As in much of his practice, Adams examines the intersections between personal lives and mass media in a self-referential and ironic style. The artist has constructed a multi-layered text that asks if linear narratives, intellectual property, and holistic experience can exist in a media-saturated, decentered, and fragmented social realm.
Intellectual Properties
