Shelly Silver - Blog Musings on moving image, words, sounds, art, life. It's living, for now, on the website for 5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown.     Best of 2008, Artists' Artists by Haim Steinbach To take stock of the past year, Artforum contacted an international group of artists to find out which exhibitions were, in their eyes, the very best of 2008. read more>     What I know about Penises by Shelly Silver How can a penis look sad? Hair at the base, a line running around the middle of the shaft where the foreskin might have been. The bottom skin was dark, the top light, as if the racial divide had happened horizontally in space... read more>     The Time in Movement by Raymond Bellour "You are a film or video artist. You decide to compose a film, made up exclusively of photographs. You accompany them with a commentary, which attaches to the singular experience from which these photographs emerge, divulging your inner detours, while simultaneously seeking to reflect a vertigo on which the film insists... read more>     She wants to do it nonetheless by Yvonne Volkart "Dear John, she knows she doesn't do it perfectly, but she wants to do it nonetheless," the voiceover in Shelly Silver's work-in-progress suicide (2002) states. This fictional travelogue tells the story of a failed filmmaker who is contemplating suicide... read more>     Video Parables by Sally Berger Shelly Silver is a peripatetic videomaker, roving from subject to subject, genre to genre and place to place. She is a good match for these itinerant and unsettling times. read more>     Dialogue: the work of Shelly Silver Ann Huber-Sigwart interviews Shelly Silver The work of Shelly Silver is all about interconnected spaces, a working together of reality and fiction, of thought and of imagination - she describes a system where the one cannot exist without the other. The following dialogue was developed by e-mail in November, 2001. read more>     Zoo by Bill Horrigan What does the lingua franca of caged animals sound like? To notate it, you need first to travel intercontinentally from menagerie to menagerie... read more>     The Stories That Are Left by Stephen Sarrazin Back when I first encountered the brilliant series of stills by Gillian Wearing called "Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say" (1992-1993)... read more>     Hidden Among the Leaves Dr. Verena Villiger For several years now, Nika Spalinger has been realizing projects in public spaces. In these works, situations often arise in which passers-by are drawn into a kind of game for which they don't exactly know the rules. In a society that spends more and more time in computer-generated worlds and demonstrates a tendency towards infantility, playing, often regarded as the opposite of work, is imbued with a new significance. read more>