UbuWeb

“A massive, free, non-commercial, and independent online archive dedicated to avant-garde art, sound, and literature. My favorite page on the site can be found here”

“the gift that keeps on giving. choose your own adventure. 11 mins of acconci's seedbed, 4 and a half hours of einstein on the beach. or spend your life clicking on artists' names and watching nothing like i do with style and grace”

“took an amazing art criticism elective in undergrad w/ John Miller who introduced me to the work of Yvonne Rainer, Mike Kelley, Dan Graham, etc and was just reminded of this website that I turned to quite a bit during that semester. Lots to explore!!”

“makes me feel like that one woman in jurassic park that was into fossils but for old weird film/video works. all pirated, all delightful “The site is filled with the detritus and ephemera of great artists better known for other things—the music of Jean Dubuffet, the poetry of Dan Graham, the hip-hop of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the punk rock of Martin Kippenberger, the films of John Lennon, the radio plays of Ulrike Meinhof, the symphonies of Hanne Darboven, the country music of Julian Schnabel—most of which were originally put out in tiny editions, were critically ignored, and quickly vanished. However, the web provides the perfect place to restage these works. With video, sound, and text remaining more faithful to the original experience than, say, painting or sculpture, Ubu proposes a different sort of revisionist art history based on the peripheries of artistic production rather than on the perceived, hyped, or market-based center.””