ONE NIGHT ONLY – WITH LIVE PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY, MARCH 12 – 7:30 and 10:00PM
“I’m a female Charlie Chaplin, I could have made slapstick comedy. I’m thinking more and more about acting again, in my films. My body in a movie is very important, it says something by itself, it has the weight of the Real. I can’t have actresses playing my clumsiness.” – Chantal Akerman
F is for Frame features a series of short video works by artists who use the camera to reframe, unframe, and construct feminists performances and identities. The artists use their bodies in a number of ways, ranging from minimal cameos and the use of childhood home video footage to staged performances created for the camera. Dialoguing with the history of feminist artists who positioned their bodies as sites for production and political intervention, the range of selected videos create a constellation of contemporary feminist strategies produced by and for the camera.
curated by bottom.
bottom is Millie Kapp & Georgia Wall’s curatorial project. F IS FOR FRAME is their second curatorial endeavor. bottom will be introducing the evening with a live interview generated from platonic lyfe partnership.
- ARTISTS AND WORKS:
Basma Alsharif
we began by measuring distance (excerpt) 3:30
Maliea Croy
You Go Girl 4:48
Mary Helena Clark
Palms 8:23
EJ Hill
Girl 2:52
Rachel James
How to make work that messes up temporality and puts you beside yourself while making a process 7:49
Anne Kunsmiller
on chopping wood, or something, while dying in the wood, or else 8:11
Marissa Perel
If you are the desert, i’ll be the sea 4:47
Alex Schmidt
Adults with Braces: Trude Donovan 5:00
Colin Self
AVIDDIVA (excerpt) 5:59
Martine Syms
Notes on Gesture 10:27
Lili White
I: SNAKEFOOT 5:22