Single-channel video, made at The Experimental Television Center with the Paik/Abe wobbulator, 2007.
We construct different Selves in reaction to varied expectations of society. The Self is constructed and reconstructed in relationship to a social setting. A pair of dichotomous codes, the laws of collectivism and the laws of individualism, illustrate competing social codes that shape the general human struggle to create the Self.
Part of a multimedia installation project called Mirror, Mirror on the world... single-channel video, 2008.
We construct different Selves in reaction to varied expectations of society. The Self is constructed and reconstructed in relationship to a social setting. A pair of dichotomous codes, the laws of collectivism and the laws of individualism, illustrate competing social codes that shape the general human struggle to create the Self.
Part of a multimedia installation project called Mirror, Mirror on the world... Single-channel video and live performance, 2008.
We construct different Selves in reaction to varied expectations of society. The Self is constructed and reconstructed in relationship to a social setting. A pair of dichotomous codes, the laws of collectivism and the laws of individualism, illustrate competing social codes that shape the general human struggle to create the Self.
Part of a multimedia installation project called Mirror, Mirror on the world... three-channel video, text and digital prints, 2008.
A part of The Wednesday Group take a fresh look at the way information is presented to us, and re-present it with a bias that reflects the subjectivity of our media.
Installation using the best selling newspapers from the U.S, Norway, Japan and the U.K, from the same day in December 2006. Collaboration with Minako Shirakura, Angela Pease and Sarah Britten-Jones, 2007.
The Wednesday Group consists of the following members: Minako Shirakura (Japan), Terese Longva (Norway), Elizabeth Emery (USA), Angela Pease (USA), Dallas Kavanagh (USA) and Sarah Britten-Jones (UK).
We are identified by the image of the face. Images of our faces provide important information for others. We know ourselves as an image, and we become the image we see. When we cover our own face, we become a shape. We scrub out our personalities with thick, greasy, orange oil pastel. Everyone ends up the same but everyone is not the same. We have different selves. We can be the oppressor and the oppressed. We watch ourselves doing this, and we watch expressionless. The oil pastel masks our faces. We are doing this to ourselves.
Orange straps restrain four TV's to their separate chairs, back to back. The TV's sit in a vulnerable position on their sides. A portrait inside a box - freedom contained. Orange signals caution, hazard, and safety. It highlights and draws attention to itself. It says stay away.
In contrast to the seriousness, lyrical paper airplanes are substituted for emergency food supplies in Zip-lock bags. Suspended and isolated from each other and from the environment, they are safe inside their sealed containers. They are preserved, but they cannot fly. Freedom is contained. They are protected at the cost of their freedom. They forsake their freedom for their freedom. They are isolated, emasculated. Multimedia installation with TV monitors, paper airplanes, zip lock bags, orange straps and fishing line, 2006. Collaboration with Sarah Britten-Jones.
Multimedia installation with digital print, sculpture, and video, 2006. Technical support by Patrick Power.
I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.
Dear, Dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.
Multimedia Installation with digital print, text, found objects and sound. Collaboration with Angela Pease, 2006
