Jesse Malmed

I make art using video, film, sound, text, performance, installation and their overlaps and gaps. These works are conceptually engaged, language-intensive and visually mesmerizing. Through deliberate mistranslation and the strategic denaturing of languages and codes, I seek to reveal their extra-communicative potential as sound, as image, as object, and shift audiences’ concepts of the show, of the cinema. I draw on the history of avant-garde moving image culture, conceptual poetics, ecstatic improvisation, dense wordplay and humor in this work and in my corollary activities as a curator, writer and educator.