Biennale! Artist Film and Video

David Blandy :
What is Soul? (2002) 5 min

In What is Soul?, Blandy is seated in a bedroom as he lip-syncs to R&B and hip-hop music. The work actively participates in the debates surrounding the commercial marketing of so-called "ethnic" and "urban" music to white audiences;   as we watch the video, the authenticity of the artist's identification with black experience is called into question.

Lu Chunsheng :
The History of Chemistry (2004) 29 min

A captain and crew traverse a sparse landscape-- a journey which begins in a rocky coastal terrain and eventually reaches an industrialized site. Nearly without dialogue, the narrative arc of The History of Chemistry is a productive working through of absence, and the negotiation of psychic and physical space.

Oriana Fox :
Consciousness, Understanding N' Trust (2004) 5 min

Fox assumes a number of feminine guises in her work, roles which ultimately do not offer the most flattering depiction of female social dynamics. In this highly post-feminist work, the artist's campy performance takes place within a range of domestic spaces, which serve as forums for her exploration of her own identity.

Francis Lamb :
The Fantasist (2003) 5 min (loop)

Lamb writes that he is interested in "how representations of space specific to film affect both our imagination and our perception of our environment." He isolates specific moments in film and re-edits them in order to emphasize the emptiness and artificiality of its constructed worlds. As part of this project, the artist has used video in The Fantasist as a means of unveiling cinematic conventions and the discourses which surround it.

Damon Packard :
Reflections of Evil (2002) 120 min

In execution and tone, Reflections of Evil is both a fairy tale and a horror film set against the backdrop of Los Angeles' most visited theme parks. Since its release, the work has achieved a cult status, and is as much a grotesque comedy as it is a cruel engagement with Steven Spielberg's Hollywood.

Josefina Posch :
No Comment (2003) 2 min (loop)

A snippet of the news shot during the American invasion of Afghanistan is excerpted and slowed down. At this reduced speed, the colors which characterize the standard news set and the station logo become hyperreal, as much as the asinine giddiness of the newscasters turn sinister.

Mark Aerial Waller :
Reversion of the Beast Folk (2004) 12 min

A ritualistic recreation of HG Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau." Working through drawing, props, and site specific sculpture and installation, Waller has been engaged in a critical re-evaluation of cinema. He is the founder of The Wayward Cannon, a platform for event-based interventions in film and television.

Jen Wu :
YouthInAsia1: Killing Me Softly 16 min

Wu uses personal experience as source material for the production of installation work and video. In YouthInAsia, home-video footage of one of the artist's teenage piano recitals is deployed to comment on the ritualized violence of social interactions.

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