Interviewed for the Feminist Experimental Filmmakers Interview Archive
Included in 2017 Film-makers Coop Benefit
Happy to be a part of the Film-makers Coop Benefit Auction, invited by filmmaker Mary Billyou. See the auction items on Paddle 8. Thanks to Mary for inviting me! I’m a fan of the Coop.
Curatorial Project: Electric Breath at Emerge 2017
I am curating a screening of experimental videos and animations for the Emerge Festival 2017 at ASU Feb. 25 (with head-curator Dehlia Hannah). Electric Breath is a screening that traces Frankensteinian themes in recent experimental video and animation. From monstrous avatars struggling to thrive in, or escape from, virtual worlds to animal-headed humans narrating a drowned city, the screening presents a forecast by turns satirical, dreamy and dystopian. Artists include Katie Torn, Carla Gannis, Marina Zurkow, Eva Davidova, and Hilary Harp + Suzie Silver. Link.
The Chthulu and the Final Girl on view at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
My animation The Chthulu and the Final Girl is on view as part of Push Comes to Shove: Women and Power exhibition at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art until Jan. 8, 2017. The show was curated by ASU Professor Muriel Magenta and SMOCA Director and Head Curator Sara Cochran. SMOCA website here.
Story Problems at Maxon Mills, Wassaic,NY
My installation Story Problems will be on view all summer through Oct. 1 as part of the Wassaic Project Summer Show 2016 in the Hudson River Valley, NY. The five animations are looping on iPads in small wooden boxes placed in the stairwell between floors, as second below.
My C-Print included in Wassaic Winter Benefit
This animation still from Kingdom 5KR, as a DiBond mounted C-print, was recently included in the Wassaic Project Winter Benefit raffle at the Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY (February 2016). Kingdom 5KR is the newest of my series of short animations using ready-made 3D objects – boats, cars, pills, booze, pretty people – as metonymies for leisure and privilege. Kingdom 5KR is a super yacht owned by Al-Waleed bin Talal, member of the Saudi Royal Family; the boat is named for his investment company The Kingdom Holding Company, his lucky number and the initials of his children. Waleed purchased the boat from Trump, who called it the Trump Princess. The yacht was originally built in 1980 for Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, and named for his daughter Nabilia. It was used in the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again and referred to as the Flying Saucer.
My Animation + Pyrite at Happenland, Radiator Gallery
The wonderful Eva Davidova invited me to show my new animation as part of Happenland, a show she curated with Almudena Baeza Medina at Radiator Arts. They also included Pyrite, an AR app made by Mitch Miller and Phoenix Toews with my help back in 2011. Happenland opened on Oct. 30th and will run through Dec. 11, 2015. It is a wonderful show that includes lots of great artists including Cliff Evans and Marina Zurkow. We are going to do a talk at the gallery on Dec. 10th. More soon. Here is a link: http://www.radiatorarts.com/gallery/
My animation included in the Last Brucennial, March-April
My new short animation, Countach Belfort (2m), is included in the Last Brucennial (2014), 837 Washington Street. The piece is a sketch – my attempt to think through my distress about the ease with which white collar criminals, like Jordan Belfort, free themselves from sentencing and restitution. In the Brucennial, my animation hangs right below a work by Carla Gannis. Hi Carla.
Video: Blessed Buckets as part of Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers at Kunsthall Galapagos Dumbo Feb. 10, 2014
Video, recorded by Carlton Bright, of a night of performance by Group 6.0. My piece includes the superb Blessed Buckets performing My Buckets Got a Hole in It and God Bless the Child on violin and mandolin. My animation re Jordan Belfort accompanied them but is off to the side. Carlton collages it in at one point. Thanks Carlton. Thanks Buckets. Thanks Jody for inviting me to contribute.
Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers for the New Age
I am happy to report that I will be part of ‘Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers for the New Age’ – an evening of 6-minute performances by the 6.0 Group this Monday, February 3 at Kunsthalle Galapagos. My contribution will be a short animated riff on Jordan Belfort’s new stand-up routine. I will be accompanied by a musical performance by the Blessed Buckets. I am excited.
Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers for the New Age
Monday, February 3, 2014
Kunsthalle Galapagos
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201
This Red Door Presents:
An evening of nine six-minute multi-media performances by the 6.0 Group members: Jody Wood, Karl Erickson, Jamie Diamond, Kimberly Ruth, Elisabeth Smolarz, Rachel Stevens, Tamar Ettun and Meredith Drum.
Participating artists met and fell in love during the LMCC Swing Space residency on Governors Island; the 6-minute classy yet windy boat trip to the island initiated the 6- minute structure for the performance.