Movies: Maren Hassinger

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together ja...

An impromptu choreography of housework, including rhythmic sweeping, dancing, moving around with plastic bags filled with clothing, and demonstrating a piece of art made of paper. - Lowery Stokes Sims and Archives of American Art finding aid....

Part 3 of a trio of pieces titled Lives. "Vanities" was performed for the camera....

Part 2 of a trio of pieces titled Lives. "Lives" documents how mothers and their children move similarly....

Part 1 of a trio of pieces titled Lives. "Diaries" documents daily activity....

This is the story of my Father’s family. All the past washes downriver, leaving debris as in the wake of a terrible flood....

In Daily Mask (2004), Hassinger embodies the narrator caught behind the minstrel's (a racist cultural stereotype) mask. - LeRonn P. Brooks...

In Legacy (2006), a thirteen-minute video projection of various words and phrases which relate to the African-American experience, Hassinger collapses present-day perceptions with a critical eye on the past history. - Shannon Egan...