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Breath of Venus (1996/2000): A four channel video/sound sculpture based on videotaped
images of an artist who lived with cancer for seven years and died in 1984. It
acknowledges the primal attempt of artists throughout history to reconstitute
the reality of a person, memory or feeling - in this case through the electronic
technologies of sound and light. |
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Induction (1995): An eight channel music/video installation with nine narrated stories concerned
with obsessive search in America for personal identity and history, in a culture
where values and expectations remain forever fragmented and contradictory. 30:00
repeat loop for each channel of audio and video, which all play simultaneously. |
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The
Earlier Known (1994): A four channel music/video Installation in which four channels
of video and three channels of sound follow separate paths to examine the modalities
of time and memory. Each looped tape plays simultaneously for twelve minutes. |
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Visitations (1991): A music/video Oratorio with live choir that uses a setting of the Magnificat
of Mary to examine the links between hallucination, vision, revolution, and technology.
55:00 |
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Seven
Prophecies (1990): Available as a single channel work and as an inter-active video
installation, this is a cycle of seven music videos presenting prophecies drawn
from different cultures throughout history, ranging from Ancient Egypt to 19th
century Native American. 28:30 |
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Devil's
Do (1984): The subject is fear, addressed as a public service announcement. in
which a cartoon man is pinned to a board and spun around by a live hand until
he cracks up. This printed text follows: "As long as people accept the illusion
of death, which the devil is obliged to maintain, then they remain at the mercy
of their devils, their illusions, their own fears." 1:00 |
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For
The Record (1986): A three channel Video Installation in which the viewer is addressed
as an interviewee for an unspecified position. This piece is a confrontation with
authority, cruelty and the invasion of privacy, interpreted as a comic, yet pernicious
contemporary rite of passage - the job interview. 4:30 |
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Tracce
Spettrale/Spectral Evidence (1998): An interactive CD ROM designed as an animated
comic book, which recounts the realities of growing up in an Italian-American
family, and the parallel romance of memories of Italy. |
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Details
From The Earlier Known (1995): A single channel music/video with six narrated
stories in four languages that maps the interior of a personal history, and questions
the construction of meaning through observation and translation.10:15 |
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The
Armed Man (1993): A single channel music/video in seven segments in which the
body as technology, like language, is treated as both a symbol system and as a
seat of identity. 11:30 |
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Creation
Myths (1992): A three channel music/video Installation which acknowledges the
futility of trying to retain the reality of a person, memory or feeling with technology,
through an attempt to physically reconstruct and thus resurrect someone from videotape.
30:00 (continuous loop) |
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TV
Loves You-Inspirational Guidance For Every Need And Desire (1989): A series of
seven self-actualization videos in which a "TV Godmother " offers advice
on such diverse topics as Goals, Attitude, Relationships and Power. This videotape
is also presented as part of "The Castle-A Fairytale" (a live concert
performance) based on the classic Franz Kafka novel "The Castle". 23:00 |
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Spider
Love Lullabye (1986): A cautionary single channel video lullaby in which a grotesque
mother figure, part human, part graphic, croons reassuring platitudes to her anxious
offspring, while contradictory icons of fear and power flash by in a bleak satire
of media control and psychoanalytic symbolism. 3:30 |
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Greeting
The Widow (1985): A mini-opera for live performance with video. Seven dear friends
and relatives come to "console" the widow just after her husband's funeral,
taking advantage of her shock and mourning to gain control of her money, possessions
and life. 15:00 (libretto and music only available) |
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Myths
Of The Midwest (1984): A study of the absurdities of regionalism and prejudice
where various people in California peer out of post-cards and relate their opinions
of the Midwestern United States. 4:30 |
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Dusk
To Dusk (1983): A three channel Video Installation which combines video, audio,
story telling, sculpture and printed text to create an environment of fantasy
and disillusionment presented in a quirky, fairy tale style, contrasting truth,
illusion, delusion, and the conscious choices made concerning beliefs. 60:00 (continuous
loop) |
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Suffering
Star Syndrome (1983): A highly stylized pseudo-interview/docu-comedy addressing
the hazards of public recognition and celebrity. 8:00 |
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Baby
Needs A Change (1982): A nuclear bomb becomes the "ultimate party favor"
in this short video about personal frustration in the face of overwhelming anxieties.
Common and comforting symbols of birthday party, squalling infant and mother are
reduced to horrific nothingness with a gunshot and the words "A bullet a
bomb, its all the same Mom". 1:40 |
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Don't
Fall (1982): A short work combining live-action and painting to address issues
concerning performers and public adulation. 1:40 |
