“He’s in. What’s next?” “Looking down at your hands and seeing monsters.” So goes a nonsensical exchange in the video The Night Epi$ode Pilot: Purgatorial Curatorial between artists Malik Gaines, playing a blind chief curator who works in the “sightless context” of sound and sculpture, and Jade Gordon, in the role of a “nightmare curator” who says she plans to wear a suicide bomb to an opening.

Almond-eyed, bare-bottomed, penises erect or vulvas engorged, Dorothy Iannone's figures conjoin, ecstatically reaching galactic heights through physical love.

If memory serves, when Easy Rider was released, in 1969, it was both terrifying and bewildering. Now it's easier to see why. The movie Dennis Hopper directed, starred in and co-wrote was both randomly violent and deeply nihilistic.

In most of Yan Duyvendak's performances, he uses a television monitor as a prop, putting it on his lap and talking and singing to it as if it were a child or a friend. This 10-year retrospective of the Swiss artist's work featured video documentation of performances, works conceived as videos, and a program of live performances.

Slight gestures, jokes as quiet as whispers and an extraordinary lightness of touch characterize the oeuvre of Czech artist Jiˇrí Kovanda. Two recent exhibitions offered a sampling of Kovanda then and now: at Kreps was a mini-survey of works made between 1976 and 1993, and at Wallspace, new site-specific pieces.