One Half Hour of Wiggling is a reality entertainment program. Three characters wiggle their bodies at various locations. An omniscient voice narrates the ensuing conflict between the three wigglers. Like a half hour long reality television show streaming from the internet, the action cuts away from time to time to go to commercial break, but there are no commercials. Teasers and recaps orient the audience in these moments of transition.
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The work Dress Pattern questions existing systems within the gender binary. Is it possible to fail at gender? Who owns gender? As a transgender artist I often ask myself these questions and am always looking for new ways to answer. Dress Pattern is one of those moments.
Mirror Tapping ((Empathy Labourers))
ASMR videos (Autonomous sensory meridian response) seek to elicit feelings of physical ‘tingly’ sensations usually in the head, scalp or neck region of the body. They have become a recent online phenomena attracting as many producers as there are viewers, contributing to a community of ASMR lovers. Often videos centre around particular sounds, movements, speech patterns or tactile stimuli. These videos are usually produced using modest recording technologies, by a solitary performer. Due to the amateur imperfections of the recording set up, outside noises and interruptions are often common characteristics of the ASMR video. Embedded in the videos are complex relationships between technology, moving bodies, economy and action. It has become increasingly popular for performers to create tutorials based upon subscribers request. These requests are often made through payment via platforms such as PayPal.
A script was compiled from transcribing various ASMR videos that dealt with a generic and ambiguous dialogue. The dialogue assembled draws attention to the agency and construction of the ASMR tutorial. A notable ASMR performer DianaDew Asmr was commissioned to narrate the script and create the soundtrack for the video. The binaural recording technique makes use of stereo splitting to enhance the bodily perceptible element in the videos. The film was played and filmed from an iPad as a gesture towards completion of technology and screen as body. The pausing, swiping and pinching motion acts as a way of trying to maintain a connection with the original tutorial and to extend the mirror device further.
The video is designed to be downloaded and used on mobile/tablet devices.
A Rousing View of Nature’s Magnificence
A video performance made at Grand Canyon National Park. It is a study in superlative visual and textual representations of natural wonders. With this piece I consider the value we place on “being there” versus experiencing a location via those superlatives.
From the Rim
A combined narrative of 100+ family vacations to the Grand Canyon. Every visitor arrives with preconceived notions about the natural “wonder” gleaned from images of the canyon. In turn, visitors reconcile those preconceptions with the reality of the view from the rim. We see these moments on video with varied response; from life-changing revelations to total indifference.
EC, Contact: Conceptualized as a model for an eye contact training video, EC draws off the strange and unknowable logic of established social conventions and the manifest difficulties (maybe even impossibilities) of teaching social skills. Much as repeating the same word over and over leaches it of meaning, focusing on out-of-context eye contact turns an extremely normal action into something bizarre. Contact expands upon this idea, placing the sculptural props of EC alongside objects and imagery drawn from studies of autism, language and anxiety. By contrasting (ostensibly objective) scientific studies with digressive, emotive writing and handmade forms, these works try and negotiate the difficult relationships between clinical practice and lived realities.
Contact A
EC ONE
EC TWO
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Lesson in Harmony is broadcast video work that is just that: a lesson in vocal harmonization as well as a lesson in a more transcendent sort of harmony. An onscreen subject receives instruction in technique, posture, and exercises for vocal performance and harmonization while an overdubbed voice indexes in minute detail the comportment of the subject. The voice is descriptive and didactic, while drawing from the extra-personal vocabulary of new age thought: channeling, vibration, resonance. This language implies multiple bodies, some present and some not, but all affected by and attuned to one another (provided the proper channels are open). As viewers, we are implicated in the lesson; we are asked to open ourselves to unseen channels, to consider the aural and figurative language that constitutes and calls public and political bodies.
Love and Capitalism examines the connection between ideology and class by interviewing subjects on the streets of Chicago neighborhoods that vary in economic status. The film explores a structural critique of modern society through the real emotional struggles that working individuals experience. By connecting these everyday struggles to a structural critique, the filmmakers hope to shed light on the politics of personal hardships.
Love and Capitalism 1
Love and Capitalism 2
Moderato
1 minute 38 seconds, 2014
A video about video, time, movement, sound, metronome, still photography, Man Ray.
Synopsis
00:00:35 seconds, 2014
A video about the structure of video, and computer screens.
Tender Comrades plays on the conventions of documentary filmmaking to tell a fictional story of a radical intellectual celebrity named Sophie Vix Maurer and her biggest fan: a fictionalized version of the artist herself. Shot partially at Occupy Wall Street, the film uses real-life events, fake interviews, and lo-fi re-enactments to illuminate a seldom examined history of anarchism and subversive movements. The stories Sophie re-tells are drawn from the memoirs of 20th century anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, the legendary shooting of their contemporary, Voltairine de Cleyre, and a heart-wrenching anecdote about two women imprisoned during the Dirty War in Argentina. The film is foremost about the relationship between writers and their readers, particularly women writers and readers, and posits this bond as a romance kindled with well-chosen words and a shared history of exuberant resistance.
Platform 2: Voice by group, 2013
Use this self-hypnosis video to find your personal mantra. Recommended viewing in full screen in the dark with headphones.
group is a two-person stage performance using 90 minutes of original music and projected video. Drawing upon conventions of rock concerts, spiritual rituals, yoga classes, team-building exercises, self-help seminars and group therapy, this immersive audiovisual experience leads participants through a series of activities designed to generate intimacy, physicality and energetic connection between them. The audience will participate in karaoke chanting, breathing exercises, guided meditation, aerobic routines and more as they progress through our 7 platforms:
AGREE – VOICE – CONTACT – DIGEST – ACT – BREATHE – RELEASE
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Pressure Systems, 2013
The Lite is a new meditation series optimized for the adult contemporary lifestyle. Join Liteworkers Cosmic and Nina as they meditate on the improbable world we live in. Listen in your car or while watering your succulents. Sit back, zone out, and let us take you to Pakistan.
Platform 5: ACT by group, 2013
Implement this workout video into your daily exercise regiment. Recommended viewing with a small group of your favorite gym buddies.
Positive Reinforcement: A Relaxation Meditation for Animals, 2013
A short guided yoga meditation for pets and their friends.
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The Preparation, 2014
You May Like, 2014
The Lite is a new meditation series optimized for the adult contemporary lifestyle. Join Liteworkers Cosmic and Nina as they meditate on the improbable world we live in. Listen in your car or while watering your succulents. Sit back, zone out, and never diet again.
The Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) is an art collective led by Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt and Nina Sarnelle, dedicated to the development of new ways of feeling, and ways of feeling new. IfNf creates artwork in the form of treatments, therapies, retreats, research studies and products that play with the corporate manipulation of human desire.
The members of IfNf have collectively presented work at Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Commonwealth and Council, Thank You for Coming, Los Angeles; Open Engagement Conference, Queens Museum of Art, Envoy Enterprises, Printed Matter, Anthology Film Archives, Invisible Dog, Microscope Gallery, Ortega y Gasset, NYC; the Warhol Museum, the Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, VIA Festival, Pittsburgh; Space Gallery, Portland, Maine; Kijidome, Boston; The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Monkeytown 4, Denver; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL, among others. Upcoming residencies include Recess Session in NYC, and Cannonball Miami.