Is it a form of Hubris to attempt to be or do everything? The Greeks might think so, even though they were the first to attempt it. Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else by Marc Lafia is half experimental cinema, half art performance, half classical opera, half didactic documentary. That’s right: it is more than its whole, more than one. It recalls the sprawling mass of Sandinista, an album thought to be in serious need of editing, which actually reaches its masterpiece through its delicately balanced chaos and attempt to show the messy beauty of the “everything” of life. It recalls Syberberg in his attempt to merge artistic and didactic forms in a way uniquely demonstrating the mundane nature of contemporary categories. The philosopher Ken Wilber pursued the project of an “integral theory of everything” and paid the price for his Hubris. In all his books and his practices which explore integral philosophy, psychology, religion, and so on, he never developed an “integral art.” Here it is.
Marc Lafia is an American artist who has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate Online, the ZKM, the Centre Pompidou, Anthology Film Archives, International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Minsheng Museum of Art in Shanghai, and The Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale 2014.
He has been invited and will participate in the upcoming Guangzhou Triennial, 2022-2023.
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
Everything Is Everything and There Is Nothing Else, Single channel of multichannel video installation. Running time: 141 minutes
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