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Jennifer Schmidt @ LMCC: Swing Space |
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Written by Perpetual Art Machine
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Saturday, 01 April 2006 |
Jennifer will be screening her video, Letters in a Coma, tonight at 32 Ave of the Americas as part of the LMCC Swing Space program. Also featuring multimedia performances by, Swing Space grantee Noah Fischer.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Swing Space
Sat, Apr 1, 2006 | 9:00 PM
32 Avenue of the Americas | FREE
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LETTERS IN A COMA 2004 > Jennifer Schmidt
An empathetic response to trauma, Letters in a Coma is a video animation of
solitary tic tac toe drawings, played by Jennifer Schmidt while experiencing
a loved one in a coma, then passing-- into death. Through the process of
playing the child-like game over and over and making simple decisions framed
by a known outcome, the artist attempts to transfer and translate personal
feelings of loss and remission onto a projected medium using graphic
symbolism as a means to aesthetically and conceptually reference the color
coded computer interface of an Intensive Care life monitor.
The x's and o's, lined with pink and yellow highlighter, shift and fade to
the rhythm of a respirator. Like a sampler stitch, they methodically record
sentiments and thoughts with care-- on a white sheet, while two folk motif
birds look-on as fixed, unmoving observers.
Solitaire Tic Tac Toe: played and highlighted by Jennifer Schmidt
Video Animation of Tic Tac Toe Drawings: Jennifer Schmidt
Audio by L.Contra
http://www.jenniferschmidt.com
&CO LAB 2
Invoking blues musician Robert Johnson, the Communist Manifesto, and the
theoretical writing of Sergei Eisenstein, Swing Space grantee Noah Fischer
presents an evening of multimedia performance. Cinematic "cutting"
techniques intervene into the theater stage in this new work, created and
performed in collaboration with Amsterdam-based performance collective
and company&Co. Also featuring a solo performance by Jutta Koether and a love
song by Jascha Hoffman and Noah Fischer.
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