{"id":780,"date":"2006-02-23T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T00:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=780"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:44:11","slug":"confessions-of-a-sociopath-recent-work-by-joe-gibbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/02\/23\/confessions-of-a-sociopath-recent-work-by-joe-gibbons\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Sociopath: Recent Work by Joe Gibbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, February 23, 2006, 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Joe Gibbons in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2925\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/09\/Gibbons450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2925 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/09\/Gibbons450.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Gibbons, Confessions of a Sociopath Part 1 (2001-06). Image courtesy of the artist.\" width=\"450\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Gibbons, Confessions of a Sociopath Part 1 (2001-06). Image courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>Joe Gibbons\u2019 dry humor comes across in obsessive rants that scrape the bottom of a monomaniacal mind, spilling forth with fantasies of power, destruction, and death. In this selection of recent videos, Gibbons reveals the depth of his psychosis \u2014 confiding his sins (endless drug and alcohol abuse, shoplifting, cheating on his parole officer) and teaching us how to make a movie. <em>Confessions of a Sociopath Part 1 <\/em>(2001 &#8211; 2006); <em>Confessions of a Sociopath Part 2 (These Are My Sins) <\/em>(preview, 2006);<em> The Producer <\/em>(2005, Tony Conrad with Joe Gibbons and Louise Bourque); and <em>Doppelganger <\/em>(2006). Co-presented with the Video Data Bank. 2001-2006, various directors, USA, ca. 85 min, video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 23, 2006, 6pm Joe Gibbons in person! Joe Gibbons\u2019 dry humor comes across in obsessive rants that scrape the bottom of a monomaniacal mind, spilling forth with fantasies of power, destruction, and death. In this selection of recent videos, Gibbons reveals the depth of his psychosis \u2014 confiding his sins (endless drug and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/02\/23\/confessions-of-a-sociopath-recent-work-by-joe-gibbons\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Confessions of a Sociopath: Recent Work by Joe Gibbons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[169,423,468,615,623],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-11","tag-diary","tag-monographic-shows","tag-performance","tag-usa","tag-video-data-bank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10208,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/10208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}