Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Paul McCarthy, from the "Transformation" episode in Season 5 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series. "Transformation" premiered in October 2009 on PBS. The segment begins with a series of motorized architectural works installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2008. Paul McCarthy’s interest in performance is introduced through a series of minimal videos in which the artist uses his body as a tool. Later works show the artist performing similarly absurd tasks, only this time adopting a character and on a sound stage. Paul McCarthy was born in 1945 in Salt Lake City. Learn more about the artist at: https://art21.org/artist/Paul-McCarthy CREDITS Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Nick Ravich. Production Coordinator: Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Consulting Director: Charles Atlas. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Director of Photography: Philippe Charluet, Bob Elfstrom, Richard Numeroff, Ian Serfontein, & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Cornish, Doug Dunderdale, Roger Phenix, Paul Stadden, & Merce Williams. Assistant Camera: Gideon Jennings, Clair Popkin, Michael Pruitt-Bruun, Adriano Vasquez, & Claudia Woloshin. On Screen Interviews: Ann Marie Peña & Damon McCarthy. Major underwriting for “Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season Five provided by: National Endowment for the Arts; Public Broadcasting Service; Agnes Gund; Bloomberg; The Nathan Cummings Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Broad Art Foundation; Korea Foundation; & The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Full credits available at https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s5/transformation #PaulMcCarthy #Transformation #Art21 SHOP EXCLUSIVE ART21 MERCH: https://shop.art21.org/