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Performing for the Camera: Possess and Consume |
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In each of the videos in this program, the artist uses themselves in the video to create works that examine authorship and consumption, cultural taboos, desire and repulsion. Packaged with glossy wrappers, using sex, politics and the media, these artists reflect our culture’s need for possession and our marketing and consumer obsession. |
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Video works included in this program (total running time 24 minutes) Coupling, Katrine Burkitt, 2008, 03;08 Lovefool, Lana Z Caplan, 2008, 04;40 Never Had More Troubles (Merv Griffin & Richard Nixon), Adie Russell, 2007, 02;00 Bubblegum, Liz Nofziger, 2004, 03;16 For a Blonde… For a Brunette… For Someone… For Her… For You…, Mike Olenick, 2005, 6;00 |
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Artist Biographies and Contact Information: Goatsilk, a collaborative art duo comprised of Ben Bloch and Caroline Peters, was formed in 2002 as an experimental gallery space on the outskirts of Missoula, Montana, creating projects such as The ebay Show, Fill:Full, and The Bowhead Project. Goatsilk now engages the Internet as a site of continual metamorphosis, as an instrument, and as an artwork in and of itself. Currently, Bloch teaches new genre arts at Whitman College in Washington, and Peters teaches contemporary theory and directs the art gallery at Colorado State University-Pueblo. www.goatsilk.com Katrine Burkitt is a recent graduate of the SIM department (Studio for Interrelated Media) at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. With approaches ranging from the music video to the abstract narrative, her work is rooted in personal documentary and often uses humor on many different levels. Katrine is originally from Cape Cod but is currently living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Lana Z Caplan makes films/videos, photos and installations which explore relationships between people; lovers and ex-lovers, citizens and their government, fathers and daughters, immigrants and their in-laws, the artist and their subject, and the relationship to oneself. Her work has been screened and shown in many countries including at MadCat Women’s International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA. Most recently Caplan has been working on a new film in conjunction with residency support from Wexner Center for the Arts. Caplan also teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA. www.lanazcaplan.com Liz Nofziger is a Boston-based video and installation artist. Her site-specific work examines relationships to space within thephysical, architectural, political, and pop-cultural landscape. www.nofzilla.com Mike Olenick is a filmmaker, editor, and photographer. In his work, he obsessively appropriates, remembers, restages, and re-edits other cinematic works. His works have screened at the World Wide Video Festival, the Cinematheque Francaise, Oberhausen, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival and PDX, among others. www.mikeolenick.com Adie Russell makes videos, drawings, paintings and installations which have been shown in the United States and abroad. Recent exhibitions include Bad Moon Rising at galerie sans titre, Brussels, Belgium, For Real, Spike Island, UK and UNSCR-1325 at The Chelsea Museum in New York. Russell lives and works in upstate New York. www.adierussell.com
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VIDEO LOUNGE 4 programs of video works curated by Lana Z Caplan map and more informaiton here: http://www.downstreetart.org/ Participating Artists include: Natalie Bookchin Downstreet Art is a program of the MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center.
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VIDEO LOUNGE
