Did enigmatic collagist and performance artist Ray Johnson's lifelong body of work culminate in an actual body? John Walter's documentary suggests that Johnson, who made no distinction between his life and his art, designed every detail of his own mysterious 1995 suicide with the same whimsical care that went into his painstakingly assembled pieces, and provides an engaging overview of Johnson's eccentric career in the process. Born in Detroit, Mich., in 1927, Johnson studied at North Carolina's experimental Black Mountain College (his classmates included Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly) and in the early 1950s moved to New York, where a loose-knit community of abs...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins