Paul McCarthy
Director
21
Películas
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Series
While still a student, Paul McCarthy threw himself out of a second floor window in a performance/action, emulating Yves Klein's legendary "Leap into the Void." McCarthy was an influential figure in the Southern California art and performance scene for decades before achieving international recognition. His performance work in the late 1970s explored areas of Dionysian and shamanistic initiation rituals, as well as the body and sexuality. The intensity of these performances, which often included the graphic depiction of taboo subjects, eventually led to his use of video and installation as primary media. Mining the depths of the family and childhood via kitsch and pop cultural detritus, the body and sexuality, and an often outrageous theatricality, McCarthy's works inhabit a violent landscape of dysfunction and trauma. In many of his works, he adopts a performance persona that appears crazed, witch-like, or infantile. McCarthy's works often involve liquids, from bodily fluids to paint; one performance involved mixing his own blood with food, an obsessive gesture that is simulated in Family Tyranny. In the late 1980s, McCarthy began using film and television sets as elements in video/performance installations. Often these elaborate fabrications involved the restaging of culturally-charged myths and icons, such as Heidi and Pinocchio, in the context of family psychodramas, Hollywood genres, and mass media.
Detrás de Cámaras
Coach Stage Stage Coach
Director, Escritor
Sauce
Director
Rocky
Director
Experimental Dancer
Director
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
Director
Red Poster Tapes
Director
Class Fool
Director, Escritor
Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma
Director
Bossy Burger
Director
Fresh Acconci
Director
Basement Clown
Director
Black and White Tapes
Director
Painter
Director
Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)
Director
Heidi’s Four Basket Dances
Director
Aryan Death Ship
Director
Como Actor/Actriz
Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
Father
Coach Stage Stage Coach
Sauce
Cultural Soup
Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
Class Fool
Self
Feuer & Flamme
Black and White Tapes
Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)
Becoming Paul McCarthy
Self