OM Rider

2013 - Film & Video (Film & Video)

11:39 minutes

Takeshi Murata


Takeshi Murata developed an interest in space inspired by his architect parents. OM Rider features the artist’s characteristic absurdist humor and aesthetics–a mélange of highly attuned lighting and composition (in homage to Ken Price), with retro modeling and minimalist, almost antiseptic spaces.


Underlining the temporality of nostalgia, memory, and narratives crafted through cinematic pop culture, the American artist Takeshi Murata has constructed a body of animated works that explore the lifespan of moving images and their role in the shaping of shared cultural histories. Whether abstracting footage culled from 1980s blockbusters like Rambo into a vibrant slurry of sight and sound, or slowing down the introductory credit sequence of the 1970s sitcom Three’s Company to a cryptic melancholic pace, as well as reworking the melodramatic prize package revealing moments from the game show, The Price is Right , Murata employs a variety of animation processes to highlight the decay of media narratives. Utilizing these forms of cinema as material, Murata skillfully manipulates pop culture iconography, not for irony, celebration, or critique, but as a requiem for the mortality of the images of our time, a reminder of the impermanence of mass media and the fleeting lifespan of cultural significance.


Colors:



Related works sharing similar palette

The Planets, Chapter 32
© » KADIST

Jackie Karuti

2017

The Planets, Chapter 32 (2017) is a short video that depicts the world at a time of great anxiety...

Rebecca Solnit on Meghann Riepenhoff’s Cyanotype Prints Made in Freezing Landscapes
© » LITHUB

Rebecca Solnit on Meghann Riepenhoff’s Cyanotype Prints Made in Freezing Landscapes ‹ Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads About Log In Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture The Virtual Book Channel Film and TV Music Art and Photography Food Travel Style Design Science Technology History Biography Memoir Bookstores and Libraries Freeman’s Sports The Hub Lit Hub Radio Behind the Mic Beyond the Page The Cosmic Library Emergence Magazine Fiction/Non/Fiction First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Just the Right Book Keen On Literary Disco The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan The Maris Review New Books Network Open Form Otherppl with Brad Listi So Many Damn Books Thresholds Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast WMFA Reading Lists The Best of the Decade Book Marks Best Reviewed Books BookMarks Daily Giveaway CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill CrimeReads Daily Giveaway Log In Rebecca Solnit on Meghann Riepenhoff’s Cyanotype Prints Made in Freezing Landscapes “The processes of photography were liquid for most of the medium’s history...” via Radius Books By Rebecca Solnit and Meghann Riepenhoff December 13, 2023 Ice, #9316 © Meghann Riepenhoff, from Meghann Riepenhoff: Ice © Radius Books...

Weekly Picks: Indonesia (18 – 24 March 2019)
© » ARTS EQUATOR

Weekly Picks: Indonesia (18 - 24 March 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do March 18, 2019 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Bandung and Jakarta from 18-24 March 2019 In Bandung, catch the last couple days of the Bandung Contemporary Art Award (BaCAA) exhibition: Assemblage ...

Apartment on Cardboard
© » KADIST

Chris Johanson

2000

Apartment on Cardboard (2000) is an exterior view of an abstracted apartment building...

Silencer #16 & #17
© » KADIST

Will Rogan

2010

MUM , the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication...

The Dream-Like Paintings of Christian Vincent
© » HIGH FRUCTOSE

Christian Vincent’s paintings carry whimsy and melancholy, the artist playing with light and perspective in scenes from the everyday...

Arts loom small in Ron DeSantis's proposed state budget
© » THEARTNEWSPER

Arts loom small in Ron DeSantis's proposed state budget Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach news Arts loom small in Ron DeSantis's proposed state budget The Florida governor's proposed budget for the the next fiscal year includes some provisions for museums—and continuing to transport undocumented migrants to Democratic states Benjamin Sutton 8 December 2023 Share Florida governor Ron DeSantis Photo by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr Florida governor Ron DeSantis has had a busy Miami Art Week , participating in the fourth Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night and releasing his proposed state budget for 2024-25 on Tuesday...

BTS’s RM Reveals the Major Artworks in His Collection, Including a Recently Purchased $1.2M Roni Horn - via ARTnews
© » LARRY'S LIST

RM, the 27-year-old leader of the Korean pop group BTS and an avid art collector and influencer, released a new video on YouTube in late July and several Instagram posts showing off his recent art-…...

Prophecies for the Second Machine Age
© » KADIST

Prophecies for the Second Machine Age An Online Video Exhibition curated by Erika Balsom...

Old Chinatown and Satay Men: Why This Couple Collects Nostalgic Singapore Art - via cna Luxury
© » LARRY'S LIST

Su-Yen Wong and Fermin Diez’s collection of paintings by pioneering Singapore artists is their way of safeguarding a piece of the little red dot’s history....

Sometimes It Was Beautiful
© » KADIST

Christian Nyampeta

2018

The film Sometimes It Was Beautiful by Christian Nyampeta poetically addresses the systemic conditions leading and emerging from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which had lasting and profound effects on Rwanda and neighbouring countries like Congo...

Karol Radziszewski, Nose up the Ass
© » GALERIA FOKSAL

Karol Radziszewski, Nose up the Ass - Galeria Foksal Polski English GALERIA FOKSAL #Las Rzeczy Exhibitions Artists About gallery Contact Karol Radziszewski Karol Radziszewski, Nose up the Ass October 20, 2023 Opening: Friday, October 20th, at 6:00 till 10:00 pm The exhibition runs: October 20th — December 2nd curated by: Maria Rubersz Working with objects from the past, the archivist opens them up to the future...

In the State of Amnesia
© » KADIST

Meiro Koizumi

2015

Words by Meiro Koizumi: “The video installation work In the State of Amnesia is made with Mr...

Jeamin Cha, (Home)sickness
© » KADIST

Each week, we focus on one video work by Jeamin Cha, which is available to stream for one week from May 27, 2020...

Mario Garcia Torres
© » KADIST

Back in 2007, Mario Garcia Torres presented “A Solo Exhibition” at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris...

Untitled (blue)
© » KADIST

Chris Duncan

2010

Taken from the title of the incredibly influential punk/hardcore record I AGAINST I by the Bad Brains, Untitled (blue) is an acrylic painting on reflective paper by Chris Duncan is part of a larger body of work titled EYE AGAINST I ...

As Disney Turns 100, Looking At Its “Problematic” Movies
© » ARTSJOURNAL

What ‘Pocahontas’ Tells Us About Disney, for Better and Worse - The New York Times Movies | What ‘Pocahontas’ Tells Us About Disney, for Better and Worse https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/movies/pocahontas-disney.html Share full article Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Disney’s animated achievements — certain ones — are imprinted on our brains, in part because the company reminds us about them seemingly nonstop...

He Museum Another Private Museum in China to Open in March 2020 - via South China Morning Post
© » LARRY'S LIST

Opening in March 2020, Shunde’s He Art Museum hopes that it has what it takes to attract an audience....

A Soon-to-Open Private Museum in China’s Shunde District Could Offer a New Model for Arts Spaces in the Country - via ARTnews
© » LARRY'S LIST

Collector He Jianfeng’s He Art Museum, which opens in March, is unlike other institutions in its region....