Now available for free streaming: the Joey Skaggs Oral History Short Film Series!

“Joey Skaggs and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond.”

Following successful film festival runs,
the first eleven award-winning episodes are now available!

Watch free on JoeySkaggs.com, Youtube, and Vimeo.

About the Series

These short documentary oral history films pull back the curtain on Joey Skaggs’ art and life, drawing on six decades of rare archival footage, photographs, press materials, correspondence, and other documents.

In his own voice, Skaggs looks back on the performances, media interventions, and acts of art activism that, with shock, humor, and deception, expose the systems shaping public belief and culture.

Produced and directed by Judy Drosd and Joey Skaggs, the films are intended for artists, activists, journalists, media scholars, educators, students, and institutions interested in media literacy and contemporary art history.

Learn more about the films here: JoeySkaggs.com.

What People Are Saying

“Whether international conspiracy or guerilla artwork, audiences will be shocked by the inner workings and affairs of the piece, including the reach one story can take, and the media’s lust to grab any sensational story rather than the hard-hitting truth.” – Anita LaBelle, 9-3-24.

“Skaggs is a satirist, performance artist, and activist and is no stranger to media attention. In fact, he forces media outlets to pay attention to his art and, once you see his work, you’ll realize that he has every right to do so… What I like about Joey Skaggs is that he’s constantly challenging himself to question new concepts via art and is not necessarily concerned with how it’s going to be received.” – Justin Almodovar, 2-10-22.

“These pranks, like all great satire, draw our attention to larger issues. The “Hippie Bus Tour” pointed to a growing cultural clash in a society that had started to show fissures; the “Portofess” appeared at a time when public confessions, from Jimmy Swaggart to Oprah, had become commonplace; “Bad Guys” erupted at the dawn of the Super Model Age when physical beauty had become the ascendant attribute we all aspired to achieve.” – Joe Enright, 2-10-21.