ALEX BAG

ALEX BAG EDITED BY RAPHAEL GYGAX AND HEIKE MUNDER ZURICH: JRP RINGIER (DISTRIBUTED IN THE US BY ARTBOOK DAP). 230 PAGES. $55.

IN 1995, AS MATTHEW BARNEY became famous for his opulent, surrealist film epic, video artist Alex Bag rose to stardom as a kind of anti-Cremaster, creating no-budget video art with little more than cheap wigs, bedsheet backdrops, appropriated television clips, and stuffed animals. In Unfitted Fall '95, Bag played a student at SVA, reporting on each semester in a satirical video diary, which she punctuated with sketches that featured warring toys, a fake phone-sex commercial, and Bj�rk explaining how a TV works. Now, Bag's first monograph has finally been …