Alex Bag on Cash From Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

Celebrated video artist Alex Bag inhabits tropes of mass culture to split them at the seams. This latest video for MOCAtv presents Bag’s collaboration with Patterson Beckwith, a public access television show that aired from 1994-1997, and features in-depth interview with the artist. Bag situates the project within the pleasures and dangers of video art: video art was cheap to make, but hard to see, and it was often governed by a high-culture demand to keep it separate from mass culture. Cash from Chaos and