Death and Data at Resonant Gallery
If you are near Grand Rapids, Michigan, check out the fantastic iteration of our Death and Data show on view at Resonant Gallery WMU-Grand Rapids, through Jan 23, 2026. Our video art cooperative, temp.files, curated this selection of videos and what a treat to have them shown in such a cool space. I’m screening Coordinate Metrology Systems (TF S1, 2021) and The Pig is Going Through the Pipeline (TF S4, 2025).
Explore 20 works on display from 15 artists:
Emily Brandt, @emilythebrandt
Christine Cheung, @chcheungchcheung
Tusia Dabrowska, @tusiadabrowska
Eva Davidova, @evadavidovany
Leigh Davis, @leighdavisprojects
Kerry Downey, @kerrythat
Rah Eleh, @elehrah
Kara Hearn, @karaelisehearn
Nung-Hsin Hu, @nunghsin.hu
Michelle Levy, @lovymish
Jillian McDonald, @jillianmmcdonald
Sunita Prasad, @sunitadee
Benjamin Rosenthal, @n0t0ri0us_b.e.n
Rachel Stevens, @agent_stevens
Hanae Utamura, @hanae_utamura
Review of Video After Video in MFJ 82
I love the work of CAMP, and got to spend some quality time thinking through the nuances of how they activate different archives through imaginative media constructs over the years and how these forms point to different configurations of what it means to be the public. The fruit of this quality time is now a review of Video After Video: The Critical Media of Camp—their show at MoMA, and it is out in the latest issue of Millennium Film Journal, MFJ 82: Real Life. Happy to share space with filmmakers and writers such as Jennifer Reeves and Mike Hoolboom.
Death & Data – screening at Vtape
Temp.files is so excited to be screening at Vtape in Toronto on Friday, September 19th. My new video The Pig is Going Through the Python—a meditation on corporate language—will be in the mix.
DEATH & DATA, presented by Saloon Toronto, temp. files Video Publishing Cooperative & Vtape
September 19, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 pm (doors 6:30 pm)
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West
We’re misled by the momentary span of each individual life, and by technology’s attempt to reduce and define us. We live in conditions actively trying to annihilate populations, and rightly, we protest and resist, and we grieve from our depths. Death inspires fear and awe and heartbreak. It’s the most primal opening into a wildly unknowable place. The data of life, its scents of flesh and blood, and death, are encoded in and created by our bodies, experiences, and technologies. This data pulls us both toward an unknowable future and our most primal ancestral past, with its ancient taboos and drives. Our ephemeral bodies create, carry, filter, and interpret all knowable data, objects, time-codes and thought-forms. Data points us toward historic relics, impressions left by the dead, coded into hard drives, digital records, and the ever-expanding web. What is this afterbody, and how does it soften into the noise of all that is? Program runs approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Featured works:
from this side of space to the other side of the signal, Benjamin Rosenthal (2017, 9:53)
Menino Terrival, Eva Davidova (2025, 6:45)
Total Eclipse and the Heart, Jillian McDonald (2025, 10:00)
In the Atom, Hanae Utamura (2024, 9:02)
Prompt: Technofetishism, Rah Eleh (2025, 7:32)
across bodies, emily brandt (2024, 9:38)
In Search of Foreign Objects, Michelle Levy (2022, 5:49)
Passage, Christine Cheung (2025, 3:50)
Incurable Nostalgia, Nung-Hsin (2020, 3:17)
The Pig is Going Through the Python, Rachel Stevens (2025, 8:46)
Ashes, Ashes, Leigh Davis (2025, 5:33)
OAK, Tusia Dabrowska (2025, 9:49)
Co-presented by Vtape, temp. files Video Publishing Cooperative & Saloon Toronto
Temp.Files in Screenslate and Creatrix
In March Screenslate published An Interview with Temp. Files by Shelby Shaw on its sexy, newly redesigned site. Thanks Shelby for your thoughtful interview!
This month, Creatrix published a profile on us: TEMP. FILES ON RESIDING IN THE DIGITAL SPACE. So great to have our new experimental video coop out there in the world (in digital space!).
Visit us at temporaryfiles.net. This month check out Michelle Levy’s awesome video Scenes from an Apartment and read the interview with her conducted by temp.files member Emily Brandt. Come back for Tusia Dabrowska’s video and interview in July and Sunita Prasad’s in August.
Temp. Files video cooperative
So pleased to participate in the inaugural group of Temporary Files! We just launched Kara Hearn’s fantastic new video, “Self modulation for a new age.” My new video (*cough*) will be live in April.
Initiated by new media /performance artist Tusia Dabrowska and interdisciplinary artist/curator Michelle Levy, Temp. Files is a video publishing cooperative, online publication, streaming site, and remote residency. We are a group of seven female-identifying artists working between text, social engagement, and performance, who have committed to supporting each other in the process of creating experimental streaming video work. In a moment where we can no longer rely solely on established IRL spaces to see, discuss, make, and disseminate art, we must create our own platforms and opportunities for each other where they don’t exist.
How it works: Each video, resulting from a challenge to the artists to experiment with something new, will be accessible for one month and then disappear. Video releases are staggered throughout the year. Each artist gets two months of feedback and support from the cooperative, followed by one month where the new video is streaming. An interview with each artist, conducted by another member of the group, is published alongside the video. This month’s interview with Rah Eleh was conducted by Michelle Levy. There will be rotating Instagram takeovers and intermittent programming led by each month’s featured artist.
Videos are released on the first of each month in the order of the names above.
We are: Rah Eleh, Kara Hearn, Rachel Stevens, Emily Brandt, Michelle Levy, Tusia Dabrowska, and Sunita Prasad.
This marks the first season of Temp. Files. New artists will be invited to participate in the seasons to come.
To receive announcements of future video releases, please subscribe to the Temp. Files list so you can catch all the videos. And follow us!
