Five Easy Pieces
Jointly owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, purchased with the Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2016 and the Art Gallery of Ontario, purchased with the assistance of Peter Ross and the David Yuile and Mary Elizabeth Hodgson Fund, 2016
Catalogue
- Year
- 1995
- Medium
- Single-channel digital video, transferred from 16mm film, black-and-white, silent, 7 min., 4 sec.
- Dimensions
- 108 x 144 in. (274.3 x 365.8 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Steve McQueen
Artist
Performance Art
Steve McQueen was an American performance artist who worked with his own body as the primary material, creating durational and often physically demanding actions that challenged conventional notions of spectacle and endurance. Active from the 1960s onward, his performances frequently involved repetition, constraint, and direct confrontation with physical limits. He worked across film, video, and live performance, establishing performance art as a rigorous conceptual medium distinct from theater or dance.
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End Credits, Part I
2012 · High-definition video sequence of scanned files (projection), with independent audio track
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2009 · 35mm film transferred to high-definition video (color, sound)
Gravesend
2007 · 35 mm film, sound, transferred to high definition Quick-time Movie file (projection); 18:04 min. loop
Unexploded
2007 · 16mm film, silent, transferred to digital video (projection or monitor); 54 sec. loop
Caribs' Leap/Western Deep
2002 · Caribs' Leap: 8mm and 35mm color film, sound, transferred to two-channel digital color video (projection), 28:53 min. loop, and 12:06 min. loop, edition number two of four; Western Deep: 8mm color film, sound, transferred to digital video (projection), 24:12 min. loop
Girls, Tricky
2001 · Digital video (projection), color, sound, 14 min. 47 sec.
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Steve McQueen
- Year
- 1995
- Medium
- Single-channel digital video, transferred from 16mm film, black-and-white, silent, 7 min., 4 sec.
- Dimensions
- 108 x 144 in. (274.3 x 365.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1995-010121
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified