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A few nice humor video images I found:

meckseper_5722


Image by latitudes-flickr
Rest in Peace, 2004
Black-and-whiteand colour Super-8 film and digital video transferred to DVD, 7:38 mins
Courtesy Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

Josephine Meckseper's films, photographs and installations crackle with ideological friction. Using shelves, wallpaper, broken mirrors, vitrines and shop fittings, arranged with evocations of revolution, protest and product – a chromed hammer and sickle, a stockinged mannequin leg, ostrich feathers, a shrink-wrapped toilet brush, etc.– she explores the consumption of political unrest seen through fashion and advertising. Her film Rest in Peace (2004) includes Super-8 footage shot by the artist at the September 2005 rally in Washington against the war in Iraq (as well as those in New York and Berlin) intercut with historical footage of antiwar demonstrations. By accumulating and manufacturing evidence of nostalgia for the ‘look’ of protest, Meckseper suggests that today’s demonstrative forms of political expression risk being empty reproductions of a radical chic, that are easily devoured and neutralised by the media.

meckseper_5714


Image by latitudes-flickr
Rest in Peace, 2004
Black-and-whiteand colour Super-8 film and digital video transferred to DVD, 7:38 mins
Courtesy Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

Josephine Meckseper's films, photographs and installations crackle with ideological friction. Using shelves, wallpaper, broken mirrors, vitrines and shop fittings, arranged with evocations of revolution, protest and product – a chromed hammer and sickle, a stockinged mannequin leg, ostrich feathers, a shrink-wrapped toilet brush, etc.– she explores the consumption of political unrest seen through fashion and advertising. Her film Rest in Peace (2004) includes Super-8 footage shot by the artist at the September 2005 rally in Washington against the war in Iraq (as well as those in New York and Berlin) intercut with historical footage of antiwar demonstrations. By accumulating and manufacturing evidence of nostalgia for the ‘look’ of protest, Meckseper suggests that today’s demonstrative forms of political expression risk being empty reproductions of a radical chic, that are easily devoured and neutralised by the media.

meckseper_5723


Image by latitudes-flickr
Rest in Peace, 2004
Black-and-whiteand colour Super-8 film and digital video transferred to DVD, 7:38 mins
Courtesy Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

Josephine Meckseper's films, photographs and installations crackle with ideological friction. Using shelves, wallpaper, broken mirrors, vitrines and shop fittings, arranged with evocations of revolution, protest and product – a chromed hammer and sickle, a stockinged mannequin leg, ostrich feathers, a shrink-wrapped toilet brush, etc.– she explores the consumption of political unrest seen through fashion and advertising. Her film Rest in Peace (2004) includes Super-8 footage shot by the artist at the September 2005 rally in Washington against the war in Iraq (as well as those in New York and Berlin) intercut with historical footage of antiwar demonstrations. By accumulating and manufacturing evidence of nostalgia for the ‘look’ of protest, Meckseper suggests that today’s demonstrative forms of political expression risk being empty reproductions of a radical chic, that are easily devoured and neutralised by the media.