List Projects: Adam Pendleton

Adam Pendleton’s multi-disciplinary practice across painting, sculpture, video, and performance searches for “radical juxtapositions.” Appropriating found images and text, Pendleton brings together often divergent ideas to destabilize the present and envision new aesthetic, cultural, and political futures. Since 2008, Pendleton’s fragmentary, visionary process has been driven by a conceptual paradigm the artist termed “Black Dada,” which takes inspiration from Amiri Baraka’s 1964 poem “Black Dada Nihilismus.” List Projects: Adam Pendleton presents his most recent video portrait of the dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and writer Yvonne Rainer.

Image credit: Adam Pendleton, Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer, 2016–17.
Single-channel black-and-white video with sound, 13:51 min.
Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.