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Bios for LOOKING IS BETTER
THAN FEELING YOU
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Suparak
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ARTISTS BIOS
JACKIE
GOSS began making films and videotapes as a student
at Brown University and earned her M.F.A. in Electronic Arts from Rensselear
Polytechnic Institute in 1997. She lives in the Hudson Valley in New York and
teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College.
DARA
GREENWALD
is an interdisciplinary artist living in Chicago. She is concerned with embodiment,
community, and social activism. You might find her dancing in the streets addressing
these concerns with the Pink Bloque.
KELLY HAYES is a Ph.D.
candidate in the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. A non-traditional
academic, she spends her spare time making no-budget film and video and doing
photography. In addition to her dissertation, her current projects include a
video documentary on Macumba, an Afro-Brazilian possession religion that is
also the topic of her dissertation, and a traveling photographic show entitled
"At the Margins of the Sacred: Candomblé in Rio de Janeiro", which opened in
April in Brasília. She currently resides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
COLLEEN HENNESSEY currently
lives and makes work in Los Angeles, CA.
Home Video Project: artists contributing 30 seconds on the concept of home.
For more program Info contact jeanniex@earthlink.net
KATHY HIGH
is a media artist, curator, and teacher living and working in New York state.
Her single-channel videotapes include both documentary and experimental forms,
and touch on topics including body politics, science fiction, and the paranormal.
Typically her work incorporates archival footage, interviews and fictional footage,
and a sense of irony. She is currently in production on a feature-length musical
about human genome mapping, called "The 23 Songs of the Chromosomes", about
two women scientists working in different areas of biotech/human gene research
who fall steamily in love.
Since the early 80s, High has been producing and exhibiting media artwork. High
has been active in the media arts community for twenty years, and has worked
with a variety of organizations. She started the video exhibition program at
Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY. She was a founding member of the Standby Program
in NYC in the mid-80s. In 1991, she founded the critical journal "FELIX: A Journal
of Media Arts and Communication", which encourages dialogue among alternative
media makers (http://www.standby.org/felix/).
Currently she is producing an international issue of "FELIX" with Mexican and
U.S. artists entitled "RISK/RIESGO".
MIRANDA JULY is
a multi-media performer and video artist based in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Her
videos (The Amateurist, Nest of Tens, Getting Stronger Every Day) have screened
internationally at sites such as MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, and the International
Film Festival Rotterdam. Nest of Tens will be included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial,
in addition to a sound installation commissioned for the show. Currently July
is touring internationally with The Swan Tool, a multi-media performance commissioned
by the Rotterdamse Schouwburg, the I.F.F.R., and the Portland Institute for
Contemporary Art. July's previous multi-media performance, Love Diamond, was
commissioned by P.I.C.A., and has been performed at sites around the country,
closing at The Kitchen in New York. July has recorded several performance albums,
available on the Kill Rock Stars and K record labels.
During breaks from her own work, July has directed a video for the all-girl
rock band Sleater Kinney, made her feature film acting debut in Alison Maclean's
Jesus' Son, and provided consultation for Wayne Wang's feature film, The Center
of the World. In 1995 she founded Joanie 4 Jackie (formerly Big Miss Moviola),
a movie distribution network for independent women movie makers. This project
has allowed women of all ages and backgrounds to exchange their movies and give
each other support.
For the past three years July has collaborated with DJ and sound artist Zac
Love; Love has composed live and recorded soundtracks for both the movies
and live performances. Today Miranda is hard at work on a feature-length movie,
some short stories, a new performance and a few other similar things.
KJ
MOHR "A seamless blending of Pollyanna and Patti
Hearst, of Tom Jones and Joan Rivers, KJ Mohr is a Chicago based performer,
curator and movie-maker. Her performance work deals with Midwestern lore and
cross-cultural examinations through characters and public confrontations. As
a curator, KJ works with Women In the Director's Chair, Heartland Homos! and
Discount Cinema. She has been making super-8 and video movies for the past ten
years and has worked as a producer, cinematographer, production designer and
art director on numerous shorts and feature length film productions."-KM
SHANNON PLUMB - I was born
in Schenectady, New York in 1970. I studied at Junior College of Albany, NY,
did a theatre apprenticeship at Williamstown, and majored in acting and theatre
at the State University of New Paltz, NY. In 1995 I moved to New York City and
a year later began modeling for the fashion photographer, Mario Sorrenti while
attempting to pursue a career in theatre.
I spent time writing and developing short theatre sketches without the ability
to bring them to life. Then, a short time later a friend bought me a used super8
camera from a fleamarket. I began making movies - short, black and white, three
minute, silent works. I've produced four series of films and have since shown
them at several local venues throughout Manhattan, including; The Annina Nosei
Gallery, The Anthology of Film Archives, and festivals such as; The Williamsburg
Film Festival, and The UnderGround Film Festival.
My Work has been shown in limited venues across Europe and has been critically
addressed in print for ID Magazine, Paper Magazine, V Magazine, French Vogue,
New Art Examiner, and other local showcases. I have been involved in live theatre
productions: The Performing Gargage - Emerging Artist Series as a guest performer
with Bill (Crutch) Shannon, and Gale Gates, Et.Al., Production of "So Long Ago
I Can't Remember…" I currently live in Manhattan, continue to work with the
Super8 format, but hope to extend the scope of my films into larger formats.
I also hope to continue my engagements in live theatre performances.
JENNY
STARK - Born in Bellaire, Texas
received her undergraduate degree in Photography from the University of Houston,
and went on to receive her Masters degree in Film/Video from California Institute
of the Arts. She has taught at University of Houston and is presently an assistant
Professor of multi-media and digital video at Cal State University in Sacramento.
Her works have shown at South by Southwest, Austin, the New York Underground
Film Festival, LA Film Forum, and the Viennale Film Festival, Vienna.
KIRSTEN STOLTMANN (Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1968) lives and works in Chicago and Los Angeles. She has had solo shows of her work at the Donald Young Gallery and the Institute of Visual Arts in Milwaukee. Her work has screened all over the world and was recently included in a Rock/Pop Music show at The Sydney Museum of Art in Austrailia. Kirsten loves art!
JENNIFER
SULLIVAN (born in Albany, NY, 1978) makes sculpture,
drawings, videos and clothing that aim to redefine beauty through make-shift
means of production. She is currently working on an interactive t-shirt exchange
project, a painting series of paperback book covers, and an inexact replica
of a WWF merchandise catalog. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
ANN WEATHERSBY
was born in 1970 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and lives and works in New York
City. She received a BA from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently
a 2003 MFA candidate at Yale University.
Her work has been published by Issue, The New York Times Magazine, Nylon and
Tank and exhibited internationally at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.
KAREN
YASINSKY was born in 1965 in Pittsburgh, PA. In 1988 she received
her B.A. from Duke University in Durham, N.C. and in 1992 she completed the
M.F.A. program at the Yale University School of Art. This year she received
a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Philip Morris Emerging Artist Fellowship through
the American Academy in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited nationally at the
UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center, L.I.C. and in the New York Underground Film Festival. Internationally
she has worked with Philomene Magers Projekte, Munich, Air de Paris, Paris and
Rebecca M. Camhi Gallery, Athens
More info on Karen's process at: http://www.ps1.org/cut/animations/install/yasinsky.html
Curator: ASTRIA
SUPARAK
(born in Los Angeles, CA, 1978) curates site-specific shows for art museums,
experimental film festivals, music venues and bands. After the shows play to
their particular audiences Suparak then brings the work to different settings
and a wider public, with locations including schools, sports bars, artist collectives,
living rooms, churches and micro-cinemas. Suparak founded the Pratt Institute
Multi-Media Series in 1997, her videotape compilation Some Kind of Loving is
produced by Joanie 4 Jackie, and Carnegie Mellon University published Boredom
Notebook, made in collaboration with students. This summer The Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts in San Francisco will begin a 10-week museum run of Looking is
better than feeling you. She has also put together shows for P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, The Knitting Factory, The New York Underground
Film Festival, and the improvisational musical group The Boxhead Ensemble.
Right this second Astria Suparak is traveling across the Americas on her sixth
tour in two years, with custom shows curated for Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo
in Mexico City and Yale University School of Architecture. When at home alone
she works on an upcoming show of drawings and projections.
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Artists included in previous screenings:
Patty
Chang
Eliete
Mejorado
- performer, composer. Born 1967 in São Paulo, Brazil. Eliete has been taking
part in several art projects working with filmmakers, avant-garde musicians,
writers and performance artists between South America and Europe. In 1995 she
began producing her own performances seting up the performance duo Tetine. With
Tetine, created performances, videos, films, installations, soundtracks and
recorded 5 CDs. Recently Eliete has been awarded The Bolsa Vitae Brazil for
her project about bureaucracy in Brazil alongside Tetine. She's currently living
and working in London.
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