Our Land Is Our Land is a screening of video work by New York—based artist/musician Ronnie Bass and his friends. It is organized around the idea of popular songs and popular aspirations. In the case of Bass’s video, Our Land, the popular aspiration is utopia, which in his magical vision involves cloning, community, labor, and microchips. The thoughts of Marx are always near such social fantasies. (Henry Art Gallery, 15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 543-2280, 11—5 Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat, and Sun, 11—8 Thurs, $10 general, $6 senior/student.)

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...