LOOKING IS BETTER THAN FEELING YOU
Sept. 20 | 9:30pm | The Hideout (downstairs theater)
Curated and introduced by Astria Suparak
With an irreverence for punk rockers, adults such as parents and politicians, non-adults such as breasts and babies, and people we generally approve of such as artists and scientists, these works reveal that posers are sometimes better than the real thing. We're all staging our rebellions, even against ourselves, and wind up aloof but completely aware of how we look. And check out her ass. It's just so big, it's like, out there. Baby got back.1. Shannon Plumb. FILM SKETCHES. Film to video as intro installation. 20 min. 1999-2001. "Each film is two-and-a-half minutes or less, silent, black and white, propped, staged and performed with a vaudevillesque style of grace, simplicity and innovation. I am the performer, director, stylist and choreographer. The camera is merely a tool to capture the interactions and discoveries between character and props, actor and spontaneity, routine and the possibility of breaking the routine." -SP
2. Kirsten Stoltmann. YOU THINK YOU'RE PUNK ROCK BUT YOU'RE NOT. Video. 3 min. 2000. Texas Premiere. "PUNK ROCK is a send up to all the posers out there, me being the finest of them all—so fuck off!!!!" -KS
3. Miranda July. (Selections from) THE DRIFTERS (Thea). Audio. 1:05. 2002. "Currently part of the Whitney Biennial, these are selections from 20 short recordings Miranda made for the elevator in the Whitney Museum. 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
4. Kirsten Stoltmann. SELF-REFLECTING. Video. 1:05. 1999. 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
5. Karen Yasinsky. DROP THAT BABY AGAIN. Film to video. 5 min. 1998. Austin Premiere. Absent-minded women, curiously forgiving husbands, and plastic babies. Based on a true story.
6. Miranda July. THE DRIFTERS (The Phone Call #1). Audio. 00:45. 2002.
7. Jacqueline Goss. UNIVERSAL SHARK. Video. 4 min. 1994-1996. Four dreams about fear of pregnancy and parenting in public places.
8. Patty Chang. EELS. Video. 4min. 2001. "Fear-Factor-meets-Chris-Burden performance tape."
-Ed Halter, Indiewire.com
9. Miranda July. THE DRIFTERS (The Phone Call #2). Audio. 00:59. 2002.
10. Jacqueline Goss. SLAPSTICKERS or DIGIT + DIAN. Video. 6:10. 1999. "What if Dian Fossey and her favorite mountain gorilla Digit had survived and moved to Generica, USA? Slapstickers takes their story to new terrain in order to look for what's at the heart of the anthropomorphizing human. Language, deceit and humor are front and center." -JG
11. Patty Chang. SHAVED (AT A LOSS). Video. 5:25. 1998.
12. Jenny Stark. NEGATIVE TEN. Video. 4:11. 2001. Austin Premiere. Edited from a found VHS tape, news footage is mixed with re-cropped fragments of Twin Peaks and various war-torn skies.
13. Karen Yasinsky. FEAR. Film to video. 5:26. 2001. Texas Premiere. "In the lovely outdoors a man rolls around with a girl on one screen while on the other he cries. Is he distressed over a horrid memory or is it an unwanted forbidden desire? Is that a little girl that he's fondling? It’s just a doll, isn't it? The girls are all in school. Airplanes, tears and a loving flight attendant doing her best to make it all better." -KY
14. Colleen Hennessey. FOR HOME PROJECT. Video. 00:30. 2002. Texas Premiere. Thirty seconds of objects in a relationship made in conjunction with the Home Video Project: artists contributing 30 seconds on the concept of home.
15. Kristin J Mohr & Kelly Hayes. MEU NOME E GAL (My name is Gal). (Brazil/USA). Mini-DV. 5:30. 2001. Texas Premiere. "A high-camp drag performance inspired by Brazilian 'Tropicália' and its muse, singer Gal Costa. Set against a lush Rio backdrop, our star-struck tourist does the town, and in her search for 'The South American Way' things start bustin' out all over..." -KM
16. Miranda July. THE DRIFTERS (Healing Touch). Audio. 1:11. 2002.
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