Movies: Paul McCarthy

Rocky comprises a single monitor video and fourteen related drawings. The video begins with a man, McCarthy himself, waiting before the camera with his back turned and then turning to face it. Wearing shorts and boxing gloves, he begins to address th...

A collaborative work based on Joanna Spyri's novel, Heidi.. The entire work consisted of a fabricated set, a group of partial and full life-size rubber figures, two large backdrop paintings, and a video tape shot entirely on the set. The set was inst...

16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 45:26min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve are under a dead pine tree. Eva Eve’s back is against the tree. Adolf Adam lays on the ground, his head in her lap. Adolf Adam is the buffoon boy child. Eva Eve is the mother. She ...

Paul McCarthy, with the mask of Mad Magazine icon Alfred E. Neuman, prepares a meal – makes a mess – in the set of the America soap ‘Family Affair’....

Experimental video about child abuse. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of editing. I had been given the grant based on a proposal to do a video tape on child abuse. I taped for one d...

A man makes soup with mayonnaise and dolls. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of editing. I had been given the grant based on a proposal to do a video tape on child abuse. I taped for...

In 1983, Paul McCarthy realised the performance Aryan Death Ship in which the artist assumed the authoritative figure of the captain of an ‘Aryan Ship of Death’. The performance viewers were expected to interact with and humour the grotesque antics o...

Paul McCarthy's reinterpretation of John Ford's classic western Stagecoach....

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2 channel 16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 16:50 min An animated image flow of the absurd actions of male tyrants. Images of the world of male madness. The performance of drawing while in character was video recorded then later processed two sep...

Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the disturbing and grotesque as fairy tale narratives and foods are transformed into tableaus of abuse and viola...

In Painter, the mythology of the artist as hero is attacked in a grotesque, parodic performance that unambiguously points to the abstract expressionists. Performing as the painter, McCarthy undermines pre-packaged ideas about the creative process by ...

Following the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four dances with just an apparently innocent basket as a prop....

16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 1hr 47:14 min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve make soup and talk to the camera while drinking Champagne. Adolf Adam is the American fat pig-artist and Eva Eve is the German actress, daughter, pretend Marilyn. Fun and game...

Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles during the inaugural exhibition of "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Obje...

On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist...

Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the camera and performed alone or with only a few people present, these short performances use video to arti...

In a shamanistic, quasi-sexual ritual performance, McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup-spattered classroom at the University of California, San Diego until dazed and self-injured. He then vomited several times and inserted a Barbie doll into his ...

Here, the artist performs as the female protagonist of Russ Meyer’s soft-porn film, Europe in the Raw! (1963). Done up in black lace lingerie, heavy makeup, and a seductive expression, he meanders across the room, methodically exposing different body...