Selected Videos

Hystera Theater (2019)

A 16 MM film by My Barbarian (Alexandro Segade, Jade Gordon, Malik Gaines). A meditation on Luce Iragaray’s Plato’s Hystera, this video combines found footage, edited by Gordon, and performance footage shot and directed by Segade, with a score by Gaines. Featuring Samita Sinha, Ethan Philbrick, Somi, C. Bain, John Hoobyar and Katy Pyle. Included in the exhibition Automatisme Ambulatoire, Owens Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada.

Double Agency (2015)

Video series by My Barbarian (Alexandro Segade, Jade Gordon, Malik Gaines).
Commissioned for LACMA’s 50th anniversary. Double Agency activates the museum’s architecture with a spy thriller that dramatize tensions between artistic objects and living subjects. Featuring Jade Gordon, Jibz Cameron, Nao Bustamante, Robbie Acklen; music by Malik Gaines; directed by Alexandro Segade. Read about it in Artforum.

The Legend (2015)

A video project by A.R.M. (Alexandro Segade, Robbie Acklen, Malik Gaines). Produced in residence at Rogaland Kunstcenter, Norway. Based on a text by Alexandro Segade queering Arthurian legends, this improvised performance for camera, edited to music by Malik Gaines, was presented at DD55 Gallery, Cologne, Germany.

Universal Declaration… (2013)

A Video By My Barbarian ( Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, Alexandro Segade). Exploring the figure of the mother as agent of the political and ethical imaginary the video features conceptual artists Eleanor Antin and Mary Kelly, as well as My Barbarian’s actual mothers , Barbara Gaines, Victoria Gordon, and Irina Segade. Reviews in Artforum and ArtNews.

The Power and the Pity (1995)

1995 video by Alexandro Segade. A group of gods who live in a penthouse visit the humans of earth and are so disgusted they send a plague down to kill them all. Made at UCLA as an undergraduate, Segade’s first video stars Trisha Donnelly, Karen Hallock, Malik Gaines, Danny MacDonald, Lisa Durbin, Michelle Premsrirat, Wen Wen Hsu, Pearl Hsiung, Keef Ward, Mateo Segade. A group of gods get mixed up with a bunch of humans, with terrible results. Kind of a musical.