bodyrewired filmed member Kevin Valentine, Core Project dancers Matt, Beth, Sarah and Ande along with Iraqi humanitarian Jabur Alturfee drawing over 6000 lines in the sand at 31st St. Beach in Chicago to commemorate Iraqi Widows as part of a project to raise awareness & money.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
She Said Look
Project Description:
She Said Look
5-channel video installation
2 minute loop
Artists: Suzanne Bartelson & Susan Kwon
From the display window on a busy street in Chicago, this sculptural video installation investigates notions of idealized femininity. Presented over four screens are visual pairing of the fragmented body and text, with an abstracted female form mouthing words that cannot be heard. This inaudible message, along with the visual distortions and obstructions between performer and viewer, suggest a disconnect between mind, body, and social norms.
By confronting the oversimplified generalizations of female identity, this piece asks of the viewer: In what ways do women contort or manipulate their bodies to be perceived as feminine? How does one stretch or conform to social boundaries?
From the display window on a busy street in Chicago, this sculptural video installation investigates notions of idealized femininity. Presented over four screens are visual pairing of the fragmented body and text, with an abstracted female form mouthing words that cannot be heard. This inaudible message, along with the visual distortions and obstructions between performer and viewer, suggest a disconnect between mind, body, and social norms.
By confronting the oversimplified generalizations of female identity, this piece asks of the viewer: In what ways do women contort or manipulate their bodies to be perceived as feminine? How does one stretch or conform to social boundaries?
Monday, July 20, 2009
Covert/Overt at Oxbow
For a Covert assignment in Conceptual Practices at Oxbow, Kevin handed out the slips of paper requesting people to tell a member of my class: "I have something for you" ...rummage around... "I can't find it right now" "I'll give it to you later" I assigned a different person to each member of the class including the teacher and t/a. Kevin tried to find people who would actually have something for them. Roommates, friends, coworkers. It took about two days to cover all bases, but by dinner it was all set up.
At critiques, no one understood when Kevin told them that he had to give them something in the middle of crit and wasted time rummaging through his backpack. When staring at them, one classmate guessed that what I was doing was "the piece" When I repeated the words, another recognized them, then one by one people, who said that no one had told them that recently, remembered. Some thought it fun, some were dissapointed because they wanted that thing and some were touched that Kevin would go through the trouble of finding out who knew them well nough for the trick to work.
For the Overt part, I set up a Smile Cam in the dining room at dinner and left it up through dinner the next day, but I think that it was too much to ask for people to start and stop the camera. Or the directions were too bland. If I had a surveillance camera system, one that wouldn't automatically shut down ever ten minutes like my DV cam, I think it would have worked much better. Perhaps I will try some combination of these projects again in some form. The instruction was to make your friend smile on camera without using words
SmileCAM1
SmileCAM2
Monday, June 22, 2009
CELLPHONE DOCUMENTARIES
A collection of cellphone recordings that are documented at the same time everyday across three Chicago artists lives. This is an observation on the portability and accessibility of technology today in the hands of everyday people, which blurs the boundaries between public versus private space. As we simultaneously hit record at 6pm everyday, we ask ourselves: How much are we willing to reveal? What is so interesting about the mundane?
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
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