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[statement]
In my video work, I combine physically strenuous and
meditative acts with the painful, humorous and tragic. These actions are
intrinsically odd, based on acquiescence to childlike and/or immediate
impulses, as well as playful absurdities that normally are
repressed. As time progresses, the acts become ceremonies of releasing
weakness and sorrow, rituals of
lamentation. All aesthetic choices give
way to a pursuit of perfection and attention to procedure. The
compositions are tight and premeditated, although the action taking
place is intuitive and unplanned. I maintain a reductive use of space,
color, form and action. The works are enacted in vacant environments without
the presence of an audience. These selective choices develop the structure
of another world: a world that remains a part of the present while the space
transforms into a cavernous limbo that is sometimes purgatory and other times
home.
joy whalen
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