VIDEO ARCHIVE

Ulysses Jenkins

In conversation with curator Lucas Matheson

Jenkins is an artist who has given particular consideration to the portrayal of Black men in America. This installment featured documentary and performance videos Jenkins made from the 1970s to the present, beginning with the artist’s filming of the Watts Festival. Alternating between clarity and obscurity, the forms and content of television were redeployed to challenge the perceived neutrality of the televisual record.