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Patty Gone makes art about popular things. They are the author of Love Life (Mount Analogue, 2019) and The Impersonators (Factory Hollow Press, 2017), and director of the ongoing video serial, Painted Dreams. pattygone.com
Off Brand Video #14: Cherrie Yu’s “Parent Film”
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Painted Dreams: Season 3
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Off Brand Video #13: Dynasty Handbag’s “Masterpiece Weirdo: Episode 5”
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Off Brand Video #11: Liz Magic Laser’s “In Real Life”
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Off Brand Video #10: Kenneth Tam’s “Tutorial”
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Off Brand Video #9: Cate Giordano’s “The Final Wife—Negotiation 1”
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Off Brand Video #8: Rebecca Shapass’s “Eggless”
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Off Brand Video #7: Wayne Koestenbaum’s “Folie à Trois”
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Off Brand Video #6: Claudia Bitran’s “Intros”
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Off Brand Video #5: Vick Quezada’s “High Grind, Low Wage”
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Off Brand Video #4: Ashley Chambers’ “Kitchen Counter”
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Off Brand Video #3: Becca Blackwell’s The Schmermterion Collection
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Off Brand Video #2: Erica Magrey’s Gimme Fever
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Off Brand Video #1: Kalup Linzy’s Ozara and Katessa
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A Review of Stella Corso’s Tantrum
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Anti-Particle Women: An Interview with Writer Laurie Sheck
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Painted Dreams: Season 3
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Oct 5 2020
https://youtu.be/-cvTAYYVz1I While Patty Gone has been curating Off Brand Video for The Believer, a series that highlights queer video art, they've also been working on ...Off Brand Video #13: Dynasty Handbag’s “Masterpiece Weirdo: Episode 5”
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Apr 9 2020
If you find anglophiles intolerable, blame Alistair Cooke. From 1971 to 1992, Cooke hosted Masterpiece Theatre, a PBS-produced TV program that introduced nostalgia-hungry ...Off Brand Video #11: Liz Magic Laser’s “In Real Life”
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Dec 16 2019
“We can work wherever we want, whenever we want,” claims freelance graphic designer Zahid Iqbal. He’s both free and productive. Yet the specter of another worker on the other ...Off Brand Video #10: Kenneth Tam’s “Tutorial”
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Nov 14 2019
Men love going solo. In a recent ad for Bleu, Chanel’s “Parfum for men,” a dashing white guy abandons his co-workers to gaze out his condo’s floor-to-ceiling windows across ...Off Brand Video #9: Cate Giordano’s “The Final Wife—Negotiation 1”
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Sep 20 2019
According to Byron Sage, FBI agent, most sieges end “within eight hours.” Cops outside, hostages inside, perp and negotiator on the phone, either a fight or a surrender, ...Off Brand Video #8: Rebecca Shapass’s “Eggless”
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Jul 30 2019
Egg worship is old as worship itself. A cursory “fertility goddess” search produces results across Yoruba, Armenian, Celtic, Hawaiian cultures, some part cow, part frog, part ...Off Brand Video #7: Wayne Koestenbaum’s “Folie à Trois”
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Jun 13 2019
YouTube heads are my oracles. Like Dante, I type “How to…” into the search bar, asking a bodiless Virgil to take the lead. A bro-y Dutch twenty-something teaches me Photoshop. ...Off Brand Video #6: Claudia Bitran’s “Intros”
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May 15 2019
An orchestra spews classical fanfare as the camera slingshots backwards across oceans. Are those timpani and woodwinds blasting full volume from Earth, or emanating from the ...Off Brand Video #5: Vick Quezada’s “High Grind, Low Wage”
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Mar 26 2019
When Warhol placed a static camera close to subjects in repose, they slept, kissed, stared, but never worked. Without cuts or multiple angles, time erodes bodies in the frame. ...Off Brand Video #4: Ashley Chambers’ “Kitchen Counter”
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Feb 19 2019
Ashley Chambers paints her crockpot white in the name of God. She magically lights the stove with her divine PVC pipe, conjuring holy rocks above the flames and then, just as ...Off Brand Video #3: Becca Blackwell’s The Schmermterion Collection
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Jan 18 2019
“Would you like your OS to have a male or female voice?” Becca Blackwell’s eyes grow, then hesitate. They half answer then stop, considering all the social implications of the ...Off Brand Video #2: Erica Magrey’s Gimme Fever
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Dec 13 2018
Halfway through “Gimme Fever,” Renata Espinosa shows us her guns. She takes aim with her index fingers, thrusting imaginary bullets to the left, then right, and after each ...Off Brand Video #1: Kalup Linzy’s Ozara and Katessa
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Nov 8 2018
To the would-be star, fame is heaven. Just as the Christian afterlife promises eternal easy street, fame rewards the struggling artist with their just desserts: a coronation ...A Review of Stella Corso’s Tantrum
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Aug 3 2018
Format: 99 pp., paperback; William Carlos Williams references: Five; Plums, from the ice box or otherwise: Seven; Male gazes confronted: Forty-three; Dedication: “you probably ...Anti-Particle Women: An Interview with Writer Laurie Sheck
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Feb 9 2018
LAURIE SHECK: With Gertrude Stein, we say she is a writer. We don’t label her in terms of genre. I love that.
