(This version of SKL was modified for the Houston TX show)


SOME KIND OF LOVING: Selections from the Co-Star Tape plus special guest works.
Curated by Astria Suparak for Joanie 4 Jackie.

SOME KIND OF LOVING explores sexuality from its formulation in childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood, referencing psychoanalytic theory as easily as pop culture. The films and videos decode desire and address the cultural codes of healthy vs. naughty expressions of lust via pornography, voyeurism, memory and fantasy. Or: Performance (anxiety), awkwardness, and ambivalence. Techniques used include the home-movie aesthetic of low-grade video and hand-processed Super-8 and 16mm film, optical printing, stop-motion animation, and manipulated found-footage.


Jennifer Reeder. LULLABY. Video. Excerpt of 18 min. work as intro installation.
"Lullaby is a hard tape. It is seductive and sad at the same time. I remember Madonna in the early 1980’s. I was young (pre-teen). Her music made me feel sexy before I knew what sexy was and moreover, her music made me hopeful before I realized (as most do as they approach/live through their teens and beyond) that the world is a very difficult place. As an adult woman, I often emote as I did when I was 11. This tape is a gentle homage to that young girl. Lullaby reminds me how perfectly beautiful and at the same time, perfectly mean life can be." -JR

Miranda July. THE DRIFTERS (excerpt). Audio. 1:13
“These are selections from 20 short recordings Miranda made for the elevator in the Whitney Museum, currently playing there as part of the Whitney Biennial. This is what they were saying when you couldn't quite hear, it was all about adults loving other people's children, risks taken with disastrous results and women aging suddenly.” -MJ

Kirsten Stoltmann. SELF-REFLECTING. Video. 1 min.
A brooding one-liner accompanied by the kitchen sink and a bikini. "Possibly, this is a self-portrait of the artist, but she's not sure." -KS

Karen Yasinsky. DROP THAT BABY AGAIN. Video. 5 min.
Absent-minded women, curiously forgiving husbands, and plastic babies. Based on a true story.

Jane Gang. FINE LINES. Super-8mm. 5 min.
"Repression breeds fine lines." "The content is about child abuse-- parental misuse of power and disregard for a very young person¹s healthy development. As a result of continual abuse, whatever the form, all areas of that child¹s life are negatively affected." -JG

Miranda July. ATLANTA. Video. 10 min.
A 12 year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about "going for the gold".

Stephanie Barber. LETTERS, NOTES. 16mm. Silent. 5 min.
Letters found by the filmmaker set against colorful photos of easy living in the Seventies. Barber writes: "stillness and action in the smallest moments which suggest a life. how to insert a memory. very small suggestions of the enormity of our days."

Peggy Ahwesh. MARTINA'S PLAYHOUSE. Super-8mm. 20 min.
"Martina's Playhouse is my last Super 8mm film, made in 1989. I had shot a lot with young Martina and her mother Diane over the years and consider this film like the other Super 8s, a self-aware home movie made with the complicity of the characters, knowingly shot from a female-privileged perspective. The film is all improvisation and long-take-- but with close friends who know what might be interesting or how far they can push the envelope." -PA

Miranda July. GOOD TOGETHER. Audio. 52 seconds.




For more info contact:
Astria Suparak / a@astriasuparak.com
http://www.astriasuparak.com