Ulysses Jenkins

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren ...

01 de jan. de 1983

Ulysses Jenkins charts the history of jazz—what he calls “the first true American art form"—from its beginnings in New Orleans and the American Sou...

31 de dez. de 2007

In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image proce...

31 de dez. de 1989

This video documents Cake Walk, an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant's pi...

31 de dez. de 1983

In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image proce...

31 de dez. de 1991

Writes director Ulysses Jenkins: "This video takes the 'Planet X' myth and interfaces it with the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, LA, based upon th...

31 de dez. de 2006

This is a documentary of David Hammons prior to his leaving the Los Angeles arts community. This video covers the artist's creative strategies at t...

01 de jan. de 1978

This performance took place in 1983 at the Art Dock on Center Street in Los Angeles. Like much of Jenkins's other work, it involved multiple perfor...

31 de dez. de 1983

Director Ulysses Jenkins calls his film a "dreamscape in which the dreamer awakens to a visitation of three minstrels who tell the story of the dev...

31 de dez. de 1979

01 de jan. de 1978

A studio visit by David Hammons to John Outterbridge's studio. Recorded by Ulysses Jenkins as Hammons proclaims an arts affliction.

Experiemental video using Datamax graphics software. This piece is a very early example of the use of computer animation in video art. ZGrass refer...

01 de jan. de 1983

The Watts Summer Festival is one of the oldest African American cultural festivals in the United States. The Watts community founded the event in 1...

01 de jan. de 1980

Initially created as an editing exercise for his students at UCSD, Jenkins’ Inconsequential Doggereal mixes poetic narrative fragments of self-shot...

31 de dez. de 1981

In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image proce...

31 de dez. de 1990

This composition provides a tribute to the world's most formidable peace activist, Anwar Sadat. The video paints visions of issues concerning Earth...

01 de jan. de 1985

An investigation of the American media portrayal of black men as misunderstood tragic figures throughout recent history. Secrecy is an African conc...

01 de jan. de 1994