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(Now Playing) Yoshua Okon - Episode 30 of 30

Jun 24, 2008

Back in the 80s and 90s the art scene in Mexico was filled with boring, solemn, abstract shit. But then video artist Yoshua Okon and his buddy, the painter Miguel Calderon made it fun again.

  • anonymous

    8 months ago

    The photos of the police "fiesta-ing" kind of remind me of the Abu Ghraib photos. Authority figu...

  • anonymous

    9 months ago

    You should’ve seen the amazing social practice stunt Yoshua Okon pulled at High Desert Test Site...

  • anonymous

    about 1 year ago

    oh si... walter benjamin. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technical Reproducibility

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