Another day of ducking out of work for an extended lunch and visit to a gallery. This time it was e-flux down on East Broadway. Animism, a show with a heady theme and populated with diverse, interesting work. The gallery was appropriately animated with a collection of moving images on monitors, walls, and on a stack of copy paper(!). All this set against a dulcet whirring of projectors. First I cooled off from the scorching heat outside in front of a video “assemblage” of ideas from Felix Guattari– just the thing to get me in the right head space for a spin around. My favorite piece was Ken Jacob’s “Capitalism: Slavery”. The flickering video projection is a digital animation of a stereoscopic image of a cotton plantation. Jacobs video loop works well within the general theme of the show. In this piece an object (the stereoscopic image) is literally animated. It is no longer just an object — now it’s an activated subject, a blinking memory/story/haunting of the heritage of slavery.