Noelle Mason
July 26, 2009
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Latch is Off recounts an early and culturally shameful sexual experience. Prince, positions the experience, and therefore a more honest view of sexuality, as an integral part of a state of being whole. The piece can be viewed at http://www.deniseprince.com – the second miniature square under portfolio one
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 [...]
BLU, 2009
Video: 1:10min
Words of desire spin in a demanding hypnotic loop.
http://www.zoechan.com/sculpture/video
“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, [...]
Polyphony “Polyphony”, staged in an abandoned theatre, traces the path of a performer endlessly traversing on and off the stage. Her “act” consists solely of an encore, and her song is in fact a rising high-pitched scream. A call to arms, as the flowers thrown in admiration seem to rise up in [...]
Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of [...]