Diaries

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together jazz and punk shows, recitations by Jenkins, and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency.

In Legacy (2006), a thirteen-minute video projection of various words and phrases which relate to the African-American experience, Hassinger collapses present-day perceptions with a critical eye on the past history. - Shannon Egan

In 2011, Maren Hassinger and daughter Ava Hassinger formed the artist duo Matriarch. Wind, the only collaborative video produced by Matriarch, revisits the East Hampton region where Ava grew up and her mother first experimented with video. Dressed in layered white fabrics, the artists move their bodies in response to each other and to the natural world around them. The wind shapes each frame, as their clothing billows in its wake and the invisible current of air becomes the ambient soundtrack for the work.