Art
Paper Tiger Reads: U.S Department of Defense Contracts
A live performance piece taped at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Studios in which Paper Tiger reads and responds to the United States Department of Defense Contracts for July 2nd, 2010. These contracts, valued $5 million or more, are announced each business day at 5 pm on the Department of Defense website. Produced with Red Channels. More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #335
Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television
The pioneering social justice, media advocacy, and creative productions made by Paper Tiger Television over the past 25 years have influenced generations of media artists and activists around the world. This documentary tells the story of how the collective has combined media art, media activism and media analysis to create a new kind of television and provide a true alternative to the mainstream. This jubilant mosaic of media myth-smashing archival footage features interviews with media scholars, media critics and over 20 current and past Tigers. More info...
2007 TRT: 46 minutes #323
Keep On Livin'
Le Tigre (Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and J.D. Samson) is a feminist electronic-punk band that has staged multi-media performance art within our live show. In collaboration with Le Tigre, Paper Tiger Television organized a group of G/B/L/TS/T/Q youth in New York to produce a three minute video for the song "Keep On Livin'" that will be projected during the live performances of the song. This visual layer will foreground conceptual and theoretical ideas that might otherwise be lost in the rock club settings where the band often perform. More info...
2002 TRT: 3 minutes #308
Subverting the Media: A Guide To Low Tech Information Activism
From stencils to 'zines to graffiti and poster art, "Subverting the Media" takes us on a trip through the alternative media scene. East Harlem muralist James De La Vega, anti-patriarchal poster collective "Sister Serpents", Bronx-based graffiti group, "Tats Cru" and Sabrina Margarita Sandata, a feminist zinester, challenge social and cultural stereotypes through their work. The program explores the potential everyone has to create their own media, examines the process for creating the message, and demonstrates how to go out and make your own media. More info...
1998 TRT: 25 minutes #279
World War Three Illustrated
Paper Tiger interviews a group of artists who create the alternative magazine World War 3 Illustrated Founded in 1980, World War 3 Illustrated is a graphic magazine featuring political comics, graphics and stories created by a collective of artists. The artists reflect upon the power of combining graphics and words to sharpen ideas into a simple concept by heighten contrast to dramatize the struggles of people and urgent issues outside the mainstream. As artists often live on the fringes of society they are sensitive to human struggle. More info...
1991 TRT: 28 minutes #194
The Silence that Silences: Bob Kinney reads Rosilind Solomon
Independent producer Bob Kinney analyzes Rosilind Solomon's photographs of people with AIDS. More info...
1990 TRT: 28 minutes #187
Fighting the Fundamentalist Fig Leaf
The Mapplethorpe/Serrano controversies sparked a pressing debate on censorship of the arts. Artist David Avalos, Washington Project for the Arts' Philip Brookman, critic Coco Fusco, poet Allen Ginsberg and painter Leon Golub discuss the issues at stake. What is the conservative agenda behind arts censorship and what can we do to combat it? More info...
1989 TRT: 28 minutes #165
Red Ink: Rebecca Zurier Reads "The Masses"
Rebecca Zurier takes a look at "The Masses," a collectively produced magazine of radical art and politics from the WWI era. Zurier is author of "Art in the Masses". More info...
1987 TRT: 28 minutes #133
Robbie Conal Plasters Manhattan: Street Art Attacks Soho
Art cut loose in the streets of New York City. More info...
1987 TRT: 28 minutes #149
Nidia Bustos on MECATE: How Campesinos Are Creating Theater and Art in Revolutionary Nicaragua
Nidia Bustos discusses grassroots theater and art in Nicaragua. Bustos is a community organizer and MECATE activist in Nicaragua. More info...
1986 TRT: 28 minutes #96