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Re/Use: Looping and Recycling |
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These works use appropriated imagery from archival footage, MTV, 80’s aerobics tapes, and more, recycling to create a contemporary statement examining current issues and ideas under the lens of history repeated. |
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Video works included in this program (total running time 18 minutes) Bathing Beauties, Lana Z Caplan, 2009, 4;40 ShoulderShake, Liz Nofziger, 2005, 1;02 La Huida (The Flight), Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, 2009, 5;00 Clouds (history repeating itself), Suara Welitoff, 2009, 3;39 |
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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 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 Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez is a multimedia artist who, through photography, cinema, painting and installation explores sociopolitical issues from an autobiographical point of view. A founding member of Esprit De Corps Art Collective, she has recently exhibited in Puerto Rico, Córdoba, México City and Barcelona. Boston-based since 1998, she continues to exhibit, curate and travel. www.anabelvazquez.com Suara Welitoff makes videos as reflections on moments; elongated fragments of action, extended close-ups, acute attention, slowed down and sometimes reversing. Her work has been exhibited in and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MIT List Visual Arts Center, NGBK, Berlin, CCC Strozina in Florence, the Boston ICA, Participant Inc., and Threadwaxing Space in NYC, among others. She is currently planning a project for the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston. ++
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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
