exhibited as a looping 2 channel video with the monitors framing and further distancing the dandies/ view an excerpt from the loop
Havisham [2007] is a two-channel video tableaux that seats two dandies at opposite ends of a long table piled with oversized wedding cakes. They appear fully prepared to engage in the spectacle of marriage, but [...]
In “evaluTEC,” Janet Wright, a character representing evaluTEC, a self-help company based on the concept of self-evaluation for self-betterment, sits at a roadside stand waiting for interaction. She connects with passersby by first offering them a complimentary self-evaluation to help them through times of change. Then, she asks the participant to fill out an evaluation [...]
It’s official: losingyoursef.com now has a life of its own. And your curators have just begun to turn over in our minds the conceptual connectivity emerging on the site.
Susan has compared the work of artists who center on their rapport with the natural world. Jillian discovered patterns in how some artists examine facets of selfhood [...]
WOMAN – MAN – The images in this series affirm the time – sequence of relationship cycles, creating awareness of the multi-faceted roles of women.
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BLU, 2009
Video: 1:10min
Words of desire spin in a demanding hypnotic loop.
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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. The emotion derives from a double contact: on the one had, [...]
This image captures a performance enacted with studio-based drawing, Woods (Rabun, GA) 2009. The drawing itself is an energetic impression of the woods of Rabun, Georgia, a depiction of how my body remembers a site. When in the woods, I often perform private intimate rituals of embedding my body within the landscape to [...]
Vadis Turner
Artist Statement
My work engages the transformative legacy of handmade object to heirloom to historical artifact.
I am interested in the generational and cultural relevance of crafts made by women. Though time they appreciate in value, function as a currency and serve as a documentation of the artist and her origins.
I am currently developing a collection of contemporary heirlooms will ultimately compose my Dowry. The works re-imagine conventional handicrafts, gender roles and rites to visualize the values of my generation.
Traditionally exchanged for societal and marital advancement, my Dowry will be sold or traded for professional gain.
Selection of photographs from portfolio.
I work with domestic settings and distorted figurations.
I moved to the United States from the Soviet Union during my formative years, and I express the feelings of alienation and detachment and the wish to assimilate into a strange society that I experienced, through the tension and discomfort conveyed in the [...]
The merging of all three “Suz”, Sue, Su, and Sioux (representative of three alter-egos symptomatic of the polarizing impacts of race and identity politics) into a single entity is an attempt to re-define the self, using tactics familiar to how commercial and corporate industries re- brand themselves or form a new authentic identity. The Suz, [...]