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.
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.
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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.
Power / Point
In this short video essay exploring the sculptural potential of digital space, the physical body and the computer cursor collide in a struggle to manipulate each other. Incorporating actions within Microsoft PowerPoint, there is a sense of frustration at the relentless banality of such digital software. Human actions start to echo pre-determined digital procedures.
Screensaver
Screensaver explores a bodily relationship to digital imagery in our internet age. Drawing on notions of instructionals, live streaming, pop-ups and infomercials, in this video piece the sheen of the internet screen tumbles in on itself. The work circles around the concept that one can order online a .jpg printed on to a towel. What happens when a digital image is physicalized in this way and rubbed in the body? Will the body become a pixelated .jpg? And what if we try to feed such objects back in to the digital world?
Exploring these questions, the video takes you through floating landscape of digital debris. Sliding across the screen are verbatim recitals of chat room conversations about towel printing, discussions of .jpgs and duvets, videos painted on to nails via iCloud nail polish, spinning 3D CAD scans of towels and YouTube tutorials on how to make CGI towels.
All of these scenes are framed by the karaoke version of the song ‘I Believe I Can Fly’ whilst a hand cursor ‘flies’ towards an iCloud symbol across the empty void of the screen. Images of hands run throughout. In a world populated with touchscreen phones, we want to stroke and feel images, but when can we fly up to the iCloud?
This series of videos explores preparedness in our society, in addition to the everyday challenge of resisting change and maintaining control. It examines fear generated by a world of non-stop technological development, global climate change, and mass media focused on economic uncertainty in consumer culture.
The overall look of these videos purposefully harkens back to 1960’s flight attendant uniforms and instructional films. Using humor, these videos explore the idea of preparing for the future as a means of exercising control. The videos range from serious responses to post-terrorism working environments to post-apocalyptic wilderness survival to more fantastical situations including extraterrestrial communication.
Communicating with Media and Authorities After a Crisis
Isolation
Extraterrestria
Decipherment
Creating Smoke Signals
Preparing for Bioterrorism
Crisis Management Questions
How to Build a Hasty Shelter
Evacuation
Maintaining Motivation After a Terrorist Attack
Physical Training
How to Preserve a Severed Limb
How to Escape When Tied Up
Preparing for a Soccer Tournament
How to Pass a Bribe
Estate Planning
Preparing for the Holidays
How to Build a Snow Cave
How to Find Water In the Wilderness