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April 2021 Virtual Program
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Are you tired of forever? • Caitlin Craggs

6 min 6 seconds, pixilation + cutouts + stop-mo + motion-control + live-action, 2017

Synopsis:
A surreal montage of selfdom in a lensed world. We start in transit and end in the boudoir. Tea and light snacks will be served.

In this playful rhapsody of sensory cinema, the filmmaker is juggling multiple selves. Chattering away and vying for attention, they bring to light a highly personal universe filled with paper teacups, a sugar-sprinkled beard and carrot lipstick. But the filmmaker just wants a moment of peace.

Artist Bio:
Caitlin is an animator, eater, multidisciplinary artiste and sometime-educator living in Brooklyn. She directs “bona fide weird” animation for music videos, documentary film and TV. Her work has been supported by Sundance Institute, the Princess Grace Foundation and SPACE at Ryder Farm, and has screened in festivals ‘round the globe. She currently teaches at Pratt Institute and The New School.

Ostara • Mary Elizabeth Evans

4 min 38 seconds, video + 8mm Film, 2020

Synopsis:
Ostara is a revisiting and retelling of the Goddess archetype. Inspired by Earth based spiritualities of Old Europe the Goddess represents birth, death, and resurrection. Filmed in Joshua Tree CA, Ostara utilizes the vast desert to capture psychic landscapes and imagined worlds.

Artist Bio:
Mary Evans is an artist and intuitive who’s work focuses on communications with the spirit realm. With a focus on craft and D.I.Y practices, she explores ideas of consciousness and spirituality through interdisciplinary practice. Most known for her work in modern new age, Evans has self published six tarot and oracle card decks under the moniker Spirit Speak. These works have recently been acknowledged by The Whitney Museum, Vogue Magazine, and Oprah Magazine. Evans graduated in 2012 from The Evergreen State College with a BFA in Printmaking and is currently an MFA candidate at The University of Oregon.

Aerosol Parasol Jump • Carolyn Lambert

14 minutes, video, 2020

Synopsis:
In the Aerosol Parasol Jump, human pollinators reach into the screen, caress, poke and brush the delicate pistils and stamen of fruit and vegetable blossoms. Thumbs, fore-fingers, and Q-tips approach the vacancy left by the decline of reliable agents of propagation (birds and bees). Images hover and blend together. A poetic study of pollination as a network of dependencies and vulnerabilities, Aerosol Parasol Jump also examines media itself: emphasizing the prescriptive and impersonal character of commercial motifs and stock footage, the deterioration of downloads, the blur and shakiness of the phone camera.

Artist Bio:
Carolyn Lambert is an artist working in video, photography, installation and performance. Her work engages with the vulnerability of living in a time of environmental turmoil and mass extinction. Lambert has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Drawing Center, Eyebeam, and SculptureCenter (New York) and La Mirage (Montreal). Recent screenings of her work have occurred at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück (Germany), Bomb Factory (UK), and MUMOK (Vienna, AU). She is based in Tennessee.

Between wind and water • Isabelle Hayeur

11 min 50 seconds, video, 2020

Synopsis:
This video explores man-made landscapes and the effects of human intervention on the environment. The work draws a parallel between the lush golf courses of Palm Desert and the desolate landscapes surrounding the Salton Sea. It investigates how water is used in California, where water rights are among the state’s divisive political issues.

Artist Bio:
Isabelle Hayeur is known for her photographs and her experimental videos. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. She participated in many exhibitions such as the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts (North Adams), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), Tampa Museum of Art (Tampa) and Bruce Silverstein Gallery (New York). Her artworks can be found in numerous public and private collections.