Jason Livingston

Lake Affect

Jason Livingston

We stop by with Catherine

Ancient Sunshine

Jason Livingston

A reflection on anarchism and labor, ANCIENT SUNSHINE marks a path through the struggles of climate activism and coal extractions in the American West.

Shale Raga

Jason Livingston

Set to an excerpt of Don Cherry's Malkauns from his border-erasing 1975 album, Brown Rice, Shale Raga extracts corporate video toward resistance a la carbon-based capitalist sorcery, in this case EcoShale technology, which is patented by Alberta-based Red Leaf Resoures, Inc. and promises to "revolutionize" oil shale production in the Book Cliffs of eastern Utah.

ACID REIGN

Jason Livingston

Combining archival/found footage, treated images and diaristic Hi-8 video, ACID REIGN explores the ongoing battle between human beings' technologies of control and other life forms. In this case, animals re-inhabit a post-human urban landscape.

#RUSHES

Jason Livingston

An in-camera 16mm edit of the 1st anniversary/birthday/funeral of OWS in New York City, as seen from an embedded role in the Jellyfish Brigade, an ad hoc affinity group formed to participate in the day's event. Bold impact fonts compliment and countervail the images toward a warm antagonism.

Your Healing Is Killing Me

Tisa Bryant, Jason Livingston

Kirslyn Schell-Smith, Janet Solval

Based on the performance manifesto, Your Healing is Killing Me, by Virginia Grise, Bryant and Livingston's video was produced as part of the workshop in the 2018 ImageTextImage program.

Copy and Past

Jason Livingston

Found images and text from online matchmaking sites are anagrammed by poet Dora Malech to produce uncanny digital desires.