Mike Henderson, Dufus (aka Art), 1970/73 (still). 16mm film transfer, 6:00 min. Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco. Restoration and digitization courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles
Images at Work: Non/performance for the Camera
June 23 - July 12, 2026
“Non/performance for the Camera” examines the figure of the cultural worker and their possibilities of refusal.
The film and video program Images at Work is conceived as an offshoot of and appendix to Performing Conditions—dependent on the whole, even as it supports it. Each thematic program screens for three weeks in the Bakalar Gallery. The films screen on a loop during gallery hours.
Featured films:
Brigitta Kuster, Isabell Lorey, Marion von Osten, and Katja Reichard, Camera Running! A Small Postfordist Drama, 2004. 32 min.
Amol K. Patil, Black Masks on Roller Skates, 2022. 10 min.
Mike Henderson, Dufus (aka Art), 1970/73. 6 min.
Mako Idemitsu, Kiyoko’s Situation, 1989. 24 min.
Images at Work is organized by Ramona Ngin, Curatorial Assistant.
Screening Schedule
Strike and Sabotage, April 11–May 3
Alanis Obomsawin, Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man, 1997. 58 min.
Razan AlSalah, A Stone’s Throw, 2024. 40 min.
With and Against Housework, May 12–31
Margaret Raspé, The Sadist Whips the Unquestionably Innocent, 1971. 6 min.
Letícia Parente, Tarefa I [Assignment I], 1982. 2 min.
Fronza Woods, Fannie’s Film, 1981. 15 min.
Yugantar Film Collective, Molkarin [Maid Servant], 1981. 25 min.
Solidarity and Form, June 2–21
Joyce Wieland, Solidarity, 1973. 11 min.
Karimah Ashadu, Lagos Sand Merchants, 2013. 10 min.
Kevin Jerome Everson, Sound That, 2014. 12 min.
Morgan Quaintance, Repetitions, 2022. 24 min.
Non/performance for the Camera, June 23–July 12
Brigitta Kuster, Isabell Lorey, Marion von Osten, and Katja Reichard, Camera Running! A Small Postfordist Drama, 2004. 32 min.
Amol K. Patil, Black Masks on Roller Skates, 2022. 10 min.
Mike Henderson, Dufus [aka Art], 1970/73. 6 min.
Mako Idemitsu, Kiyoko’s Situation, 1989. 24 min.
Note: From May 5–10, the gallery will be closed for a performance by Sophia Giovannitti.
