| | This program offers a selection of works in which artists explore both serious and funny aspects of the fabrication, fragmentation and multiplication of personal identity and space. The idea of self is positioned in a web of links and cross-references between the physical, the psychological, the virtual, the dramatic and the contextual aspects of experience (Screening with Interstate Super 8).
Duplex by Gustavo Artigas, 6 min, Video, 2001
A video document of a project in which the artist enlisted a group of impostors to aid in delivering a short lecture about split personality.
Tina: Spatiotemporal Reconstruction #2 by Greg Kucera, 4 min, Video, 2001
A woman has the same telephone conversation multiple times in multiple places, all compressed into one continuous experience.
Copyshop by Virgil Widrich , 12 min, 35 mm Film, 2001
An office worker photocopies himself and soon finds himself living in a world of duplicates.
Self Portrait #2,
by Matthew Gebhart, 5 minutes, Video, 2001
An abstract self-portrait in which elements of the artists physiognomy divide and converge.
Rentre chez toi by Claudette Lemay, 2:40 min, Video, 2001
A meditation on the boundary between internal and external influences upon the individual.
Living by Greg Kucera, 10 min, Video, 2001
Multiple versions of the same man live together in a house.
With Me by Kerstin Cmelka, 3 min, 16 mm Film, 2000
A woman makes love with her own image.
Strange Ships by Mark O'Connell, 3 min, Video
A number of oddly similar anonymous men cross paths in a corridor.
Headshot by Shana Torok, 3:20 min, Video, 2002
A young woman interprets the nuances of working with a photographer to create her headshot.
Running by Maryam Jafri, 5 min, Video
The same individual adopts multiple characters in the reading of a narrative.
Exposure by Dwayne Mosler, 21 min, Video, 2000
A young man reflects on his life and ideas using a string of quotations borrowed from other people |
