Stacia Yeapanis

April 23, 2009

“Buffy Summers #2″ (2007). 15 x 22 inches. Cross-stitched Embroidery
“Everybody Hurts” , a series of cross-stitched embroideries based on television screencaptures, explores mediated emotion. TV shows are contemporary myths, which help us to define who we are, individually and in relation to our culture. Cross-stitching a single moment from a time-based medium is an act [...]

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Stacia Yeapanis

April 21, 2009

“We Have a Right to Be Angry” (2008)
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Using strategies of accumulation, collection, appropriation and juxtaposition, I explore the emotional and existential significance of mediated culture.
In this fanvid, I demonstrate that individualized meanings can be made from mass-media culture. I appropriate footage from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Charmed. It [...]

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