These multimedia works by Daniel Cosentino explore time, gesture, identity, and symbolic action across installation, video, and performance-based forms. Created using both analog and digital tools, the works reflect his interdisciplinary approach as a New Jersey-based conceptual artist and educator. While often grounded in photography and sculpture, these time-based pieces extend into reflexive, durational space, paralleling the material language of series like Totem Domum and Hands. The videos presented here offer a glimpse into a broader practice that includes both screen-based and projected installations in gallery environments.
What you see here are short video excerpts—raw fragments pulled from longer time-based installations. Many of these works are made for the gallery, where they’re projected large or displayed across multiple screens. But even in this limited format, I hope you can sense their rhythm and intent. I’m drawn to gestures that repeat, actions that seem simple but unfold over time. Whether I’m standing in a box, walking in a circle, or writing my name again and again, I’m trying to get at something just beneath the surface of perception. These videos are part of a larger investigation into presence, authorship, and the quiet endurance behind symbolic acts. They are best encountered in person, but this page offers a starting point—a window into how I think through movement, time, and the body.
Dual-channel video exploring presence, memory, and loss through performance.
Studio performance captured via time-lapse over 12 hours. Explores presence, duration, and mediated selfhood.
Time-lapse of a signature performed in real time. Investigates gesture and authorship.
Single-channel performance work using painted dots to develop rhythmic gesture.
Multi-screen performance on institutional identity and classical portraiture.
Explores communication breakdown and reconstruction through technology-mediated exchange.