The Propeller Group (Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Matthew Lucero, Phunam Thuc Ha): For their five-channel video installation, the Vietnam-based film producers hired a company in Saigon to give communism a branding overhaul. “TVC Communism” features advertising professionals brainstorming about how to make communism more palatable to the public and raises questions about how communism and capitalism were branded in the first place.
Jonathas de Andrade: Exhibiting frequently in his native Brazil, including the 2010 Sao Paulo Bienial, Andrade, 29, will have his U.S. debut here. Included is “4000 Shots” for which Andrade snapped 4000 single frames of random men on the streets of Buenos Aires and then ran them together in a hauntingly beautiful, grainy black-and-white film that speaks to the history of the disappeared in Argentina during the military dictatorship.
