Improvisation and self-conscious amateurism characterize the aesthetic of Los Angeles-based video and performance duo Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn, who were recently tapped for the 2008 Whitney Biennial. All Together Now, the centerpiece of their current show at Elizabeth Dee, is a meditation on survival that feels more fatally banal than postapocalyptic. As Kahn's character forages through the detritus of a technologically dependent civilization, the video provides glimpses of new social formations, including a tribe of subterranean techies also featured in Masters of None. These two works are Dodge and Kahn's first videos without dialogue, and the contrast with the far more mesmerizing I See You, Man and Nature Demo reveals the artists' struggle to communicate in a world where words have failed.

-Adam Eaker