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[irina botea <irinab@gmail.com>]

repelling / abseiling:
videos  about   trust

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independently curated by
sarah giovanniello & liz rosenfeld

Sunday, June 29th 2008
2pm
Screening held at Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the  
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Forum, 4th Floor

A firm reliance; the condition and resulting obligation of having  
confidence transmitted by one to another; falling without thinking;  
unquestioning questions; a certainty about a future unknown;  
satisfying failure; competence rather than lack of benevolence;  
irrational devotion and love at first site. Would you trust a group  
of strangers to catch you?

"rappelling/ abseiling: videos about trust" connects a group of video  
artists whose work tackles intense and complicated ideas  
understanding relationships of trust. While addressing interpersonal  
relationships, the power dynamics between objects of disgust and  
longing, and the manipulation of language and performance, these  
artists also examine trust within themselves and the work they are  
presenting.

Artists Included:

Irina Botea ( Romania) - menome ( 2005)
Seven pairs of individuals who are asked to communicate between  
themselves by using only three words me, no, you in English, Korean,  
and Romanian. Sometimes the language is maternal for both, sometimes  
it is only maternal for one, and sometimes it is foreign to both of  
them.

Hester Scheurwater ( The Netherlands) - Bruises (2005)
A bruise on her face. The woman has white makeup, bright red lips and  
dark-rimmed eyes, which are largely covered by her hair. Without  
uttering a word, she hits her face, head and upper body, repeatedly.

Lathem Zearfoss ( USA) - Self Control ( 2008)
A short experimental work, shot on video and 16mm film, which  
examines trust, community, subjectivity and queer identity through  
affect, blood, and 80s pop songstress Laura Branigan.


Dani Leventhal ( USA)- Recitation ( 2007)
The Grandmother recites the Mourners' Kaddish over her granddaughter.

Amber Bemak ( USA)- Desire In Three Parts ( 2008)
Fimed in India, Bemak takes us on a journey through feelings of  
desire, loneliness, transient bodies, and romantic longing.

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby ( USA)- Being Fucked Up ( 2000)***
"This ordinary life is hopeless. I have no mission or strong  
conviction. It seems like everything I find beautiful is crying about  
this hopelessness, and about the irreducibility of being alone. I  
wish I was a pervert with something inside me that burned and could  
never be made manifest. My secrets are so boring. I don't believe in  
art or socialism. I am bitterly jealous of people who are good or  
successful. I think romantic passion is by nature fleeting. I lie to  
my mother. I hate myself..." So begins the Robot in Duke and  
Battersby's "Monologue for Robots", part of their ten minute episodic  
videotape Being Fucked Up. The work incorporates simple animation and  
live action sequences to create a portrait of the artist's lives as  
they struggle with addiction, gender identity and alienation.  
Ultimately hopeful, Being Fucked Up touches on central human themes  
through a use of narrative which is unconventional yet intelligible,  
spontaneous yet precise.







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