WORK > The Year In Review

My interests are twofold: identity construction and iconograhy. Using myself as a test subject, I document daily interactions – conversations, emails, art critique exchanges – and insert them into pop cultural structures for purposes of analysis.

In The Year In Review, I synthesized this raw material into a “disco concept album” format (a la Giorgio Moroder). I composed music with an electronic producer, shot short films to accompany the tracks, pressed vinyl, and staged live multimedia performances.

The subject matter is at times acutely personal (a curatorial rejection, a list of art projects I will never execute) but my intent is that it broadens out into universal themes of alienation, desire, and endless hope.

David Kagan Video Art Disco Music Giorgio Moroder Donna Summer Performance Gallery Museum
Vinyl Record
12.5" x 12.5"
2011
David Kagan Year In Review Vinyl Record Album Disco Moroder Performance Gallery Museum
Vinyl Record
12.5" x 12.5"
2011
David Kagan performance video art The Year In Review disco giorgio moroder gallery museum whitney biennial 7up scanimate matthew barney paul mccarthy
Single channel video
5 min.
2011
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Single channel video
5 min.
2011
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Single channel video
6 min.
2011
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Single channel video
5 min.
2011
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Single channel video
5 min.
2011
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Single channel video
5 min.
2011
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Single channel video
5 min.
2011
David Kagan Year In Review Vinyl Record Album Disco Moroder Painting
Acrylic paint on canvas
72" x 72"
2011
david Kagan Year In Review Vinyl Record Album Disco Moroder Painting
Acrylic paint on canvas
72" x 72"
2011