Top Tens UbuWeb

UbuWeb Top Ten July 2014 Selected by McKenzie Wark 1. The Mekons & Kathy Acker - Pussy King of the Pirates Made around the time we hung out in New York. The sound of your voice still chills me. 2. Kenneth Anger - Scorpio Rising Never forget him presenting this at the State Theater in Sydney. Still have my signed copy of Hollywood Babylon. 3. Joseph Cornell - Rose Hobart Détournement before its time. So beautiful. 4. Maya Deren - A Study In Dance for the Camera Human and machine movement, timeless meshings. For the one who introduced me to her work. 5. Madeleine Gins - What The President Will Say and Do Tracked this down around the time of Arakawa+Gins show at Guggenheim Soho, which was a revelation 6. Jean Genet - Un Chant d’Amour Masterpiece of queer lust and love. 7. Tracey Moffatt - Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy Reclaiming the Aboriginal image. 8. Valerie Solanas - Scum Manifesto Cyberfeminism ahead of its time. 9. Sun Ra - Space is the Place You have to fast-forward to the moments of beauty, but its worth it. 10. René Viénet - Girls of Kamare More visceral and passionate than Debord's détournement.  McKenzie Wark is the author of Gamer Theory, The Beach Beneath the Street and various other things. He teaches at The New School.