Described Media | Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces

Close up of a hand grabbing marbles
Two light-skinned hands with painted yellow nails alternately squish and knead a light green dough

To make the video works in Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces available to everyone, we’re providing two accessible video formats—visual descriptions and descriptive captioning—for the video works in the exhibition.

Visual descriptions feature a narration of what occurs visually in the video.
Descriptive captioning presents on-screen captions reflecting the noises made in the work.

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Cosmic Generator (Tunnel Variant), 2017

Single-channel video installation (sound, color)
26 minutes, 36 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Note: This artwork includes scenes with a flashing light effect that may affect photosensitive visitors.

  • Commissioned by Skulptur Projekte Münster
    Produced with generous support from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Outset Contemporary Art Fund, London; and Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative, Piraeus, Greece

    • Producer and Director of Photography: David Hollander (Fourth Density Productions)
    • Cast: Shop owners and employees of Yiwu Market, Cary Cahill, Vicky Ramírez, Penelope Jefferson, Aevin Dugas, and Pete Booth
    • Director of Set, Props, and Special Effects: Katrin Altekamp (4DEE Productions)
    • Digital Imaging Technician: Loïc de Lame (Laryenco Production) Set: Cary Cahill
    • Gaffer: Alan Hostetter
    • Sound Design and Mix: Ronen Nagel and Nati Taub (Sound Around Studios)
    • Special Effects: Alexander Lemke
    • Production in China: Matt Clarke and Clark Wang
    • Production Assistant in Mexicali: Audrina Quintanar

    Special thanks to the staff and management of Yiwu Market

An ornately decorated plate holds a hearty serving of green herbs. Atop the herbs, four gray-haired men in suits lay side-by-side.

Featuring descriptive captioning

What appears to be a set of rail tracks extends straight ahead of you down a narrow tunnel. Three stark light bulbs extend downward and emit an eerie green glow.

Featuring visual description

Lips (Study #3), 2016/19

Single-channel video installation (sound, color)
1 minute, 28 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

    • Cinematography: Eric van den Brulle
    • Director of Props and Special Effects: Katrin Altekamp (4DEE Productions)
    • Set: Joshua Pelletier
    • Gaffer: Alan Hostetter
    • Sound Design: Ronen Nagel and Nati Taub (Sound Around Studios)

Featuring visual description

NoNoseKnows (Artist Variant), 2015

Single-channel video installation (sound, color)
21 minutes, 58 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

    • Producer and Director of Photography: David Hollander (Fourth Density Productions)
    • Cast: Bunny Glamazon and the employees of AngePerle Director of Set, Props, and Special Effects: Katrin Altekamp (4DEE Productions)
    • Digital Imaging Technician: Loïc de Lame (Laryenco Production)
    • Set: Joshua Pelletier
    • Gaffer: Alan Hostetter
    • Sound Design and Mix: Ronen Nagel and Nati Taub (Sound Around Studios)
    • Special Effects: Alexander Lemke
    • Production in China: Matt Clarke and Clark Wang

    Special thanks to Wu Rong Mei

Featuring descriptive captioning

A woman with disheveled blonde hair and a comically long, pink-tipped nose is seen in front of wooden shelves of flower bouquets.

Featuring visual description

Sneeze, 2012

Single-channel video installation (sound, color)
3 minutes, 2 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

    • Cinematography: Mahdi Lepart
    • Cast: Édouard Achache, Gabriel de Pimodan, and Gaetano Lucido
    • Makeup Artist: Jérôme Jardin
    • Sound Design and Mix: Ronen Nagel and Nati Taub (Sound Around Studios)
    • Producer: Mitra Hekmat
A balding man with thick-framed glasses and a strangely long nose looks directly at you. He sits at a table, upon which two white-and-brown rabbits are resting.

Featuring descriptive captioning

A balding man with thick-framed glasses and a strangely long nose looks directly at you. He sits at a table, upon which two white-and-brown rabbits are resting.

Featuring visual description

Spaghetti Blockchain, 2019

Single-channel video installation (sound, color)
18 minutes, 14 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

  • Produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto; Arts at CERN, the arts program of the European Laboratory of Particle Physics, Geneva, with the support of the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations, Geneva; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, with the support of Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung; and New Museum, New York

    • Producer and Director of Photography: David Hollander (Fourth Density Productions)
    • Cast: Tyva Kyzy (Choduraa Tumat, Aylanmaa Damyran, and Sholbana Belek-ool), Tabia Wood, Fatima Jamal, Tal Ben Menashe, Meandra Nel, David Stern, Paul Vranesevic, and Joshua Sullivan
    • Director of Set, Props, and Special Effects: Katrin Altekamp (4DEE Productions)
    • Camera: Marcin Kapron, Marcus Brooks, and Yuri Burak
    • Digital Imaging Technician: Loïc de Lame (Laryenco Production) Additional
    • Production Support: John C. Warren (Brooklyn Image Productions)
    • Gaffer: Alan Hostetter
    • Sound Recording: Vasily Amochkin
    • Sound Design and Mix: Ronen Nagel and Nati Taub (Sound Around Studios)
    • Production Manager: Natalia Almada
    • Production Assistant and Special Effects: Jake Couri
    • Production in Russia: Masha Keder
    • Production in Switzerland: Mónica Bello and Arts at CERN
    • Production Intern: Madeleine Kozma

    Special thanks to Green Thumb Farms

An arm extends into a lime-green room. A pink, gelatinous cylinder appears to have been slapped by the hand. Text on the image says [SLAPPING AND BOUNCING].

Featuring descriptive captioning

A hand with red nail polish pushes down on a bright circle with a pink middle and a teal outer ring. The object has steam coming from under it.

Featuring visual description

Untitled Ceiling Projection, 2018

Single-channel video installation (sound, color)
6 minutes, 7 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

    • Producer and Director of Photography: David Hollander (Fourth Density Productions)
    • Cast: Euralis Lopez, Carolina Vasquez Perrone, Lauren Wilmore, and Melissa Welch
    • Director of Set, Props, and Special Effects: Katrin Altekamp (4DEE Productions)
    • Digital Imaging Technician: Loïc de Lame (Laryenco Production)
    • Gaffer: Alan Hostetter
    • Sound Design and Mix: Ronen Nagel and Nati Taub (Sound Around Studios)
    • Production Assistant: Cassie Sheedy
Colorful pieces of broken glass surround a clear space where a person's eye is just slightly visible

Featuring descriptive captioning

Colorful pieces of broken glass surround a clear space where a person's eye is just slightly visible

Featuring visual description

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