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Video Portraits: Men, Women, Music and the Moon |
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Portraits of relationships, pop culture, an all girl, feminist, 50’s do-wop, punk rock band and a pioneer woman all wrapped up into one powerful look into another. |
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Video works included in this program (total running time 40 minutes) B., Liz Nofziger, 2004, 2:44 Daily Treasures: Living off the Land! (Hammock Chain), Goatsilk, 2008, 04:34 Long Night’s Journey Into Day, Lana Z Caplan, 2009, 9:50 i hate you, Michelle Handelman, 2002, 2:53 The Commotitties: A Rocumentary, Katrine Burkitt, 2008, 6:46 |
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Artist Biographies and Contact Information: Natalie Bookchin is an artist addressing current conditions of global connectivity and the impact of everyday uses of new technologies on how we see, represent, and understand ourselves and the world around us. Her exhibitions include PS1, Mass MOCA, the Pompidou Centre, MOCA Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum, and the Tate. She has received grants from Creative Capital, California Arts Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, and Daniel Langlois Foundation among others. She lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is co-Director of the Photography & Media Program in the Art School at CalArts. www.bookchin.net 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. 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 Michelle Handelman makes confrontational works that explore the sublime in it’s various forms of excess and nothingness. Her work has shown internationally including Performa 05; Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Her fiction and critical writing appears in several publications including Filmmaker Magazine and Indiewire.com. She lives in Brooklyn and is an assistant professor in video at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. www.michellehandelman.com Saul Levine born in New Haven, CT, is a maker and advocate of avant-garde film and more recently video. He is currently a professor at MassArt, where he has taught for 30 years. His work has been screened nationally and worldwide from Shanghai to Paris. He is based in Boston and hardly leaves town. www.saullevine.com Liz Nofziger is a Boston-based video and installation artist. Her site-specific work examines relationships to space within the physical, architectural, political, and pop-cultural landscape. www.nofzilla.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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