Kristin Anderson
July 29, 2009
One angel conveniently turns her back towards her crushed sister, demurely playing the expected role to the same forces that could destroy her too.
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One angel conveniently turns her back towards her crushed sister, demurely playing the expected role to the same forces that could destroy her too.
Dear Artists,
Thank you all for your participation on the project thus far. It’s been exciting for us!
We’re pleased to announce the artists selected for the exhibitions to take place in Atlanta at Georgia State University’s Welch School Gallery (October-November 2009) and in Baltimore at Maryland Art Place (January-March 2010).
Please check back here for details [...]
People often identify the Earth as being feminine, in idea or sometimes in literal “flesh”. Take for example, the famous Gaia, or the many stories, such as the Hellenic origin myths, of the Earth represented literally or figuratively as a female goddess. What does it mean to identify the planet on which we live with [...]
Strangely, three people told Prince she looked like Mick Jagger in her “Beck video” and she doesn’t. So, her willingness to not look good becomes a naked humanity converted into courage – as bravado? The piece plays with vulnerability and confidence as Prince details her unspeakable belief in the potential for intimacy with a rock [...]
“Lena” from the Southern Portraiture Series
I have obsessively photographed my children since they were babies. Now that they are in their teenage years, I find that examining their identities as well as those of their friends through photography is fascinating.Youth can be seen as a time of searching for identity, during a time in which [...]
In the video installation Woman on a Swing, Reichert and Liss explore the relationship between movement, sensation, and subject in cinematography. The video depicts a young woman on a swing; a classic motif suggesting light-hearted and carefree youth, ephemerality, desire, buoyancy. The subject is seen from behind in an intentionally indeterminate setting, which allows/enables the viewer to project and/or identify.
Although she [...]
The performance was documented and combined with additional footage for the video short. Intimate Distance/ Adulterer honestly admits to the ethical failures that are part of being human. Prince describes the unguarded pleasure of an affair and the painful destruction of her marriage without allowing for an easy moral solution.
“I have never heard of anything [...]
Pipecleaner, 2007
“3D-Pipes,” a kitschy late-90s Microsoft screensaver is the lo-fi setting for a quirky post-feminist intervention. Wearing a dress made out of cleaning gloves, a pole dancer invades the screensaver’s maze of pipes. Her spins, gyrations, and efforts to climb and clean the pipes become absurd when reduced to byte-sized edits that mimic the original [...]