THE SURREAL THEATRICAL
“Le spectacle est dans la rue "
“Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the surest sign of fatal misunderstanding . . .”
“The assumption that you waive your rights to control of your own image and declare yourself to be free camera fodder by stepping out of your front door is an arrogance on the part of photographers; it has no clear, absolute, and inarguable legal basis.”
* A.D. Coleman
"By bringing images of daily life and ordinary people into public view, photography remakes vision and in so doing produces (or reproduces) new forms of (class) consciousness. "
* Paula Rabinowitz, They Must Be Represented
VIDEO ART
Quicktime movie: around 3:15
GABE is a documentary-style presentation of an eccentric street musician, who challenges the artist/photographer’s right to intrude upon those whose lives are public only by virtue of the fact that they live or work in the streets of a city like Los Angeles.
Quicktime movie: 4:06
WALKING ON BROADWAY is about selective perception. Which details catch our eye and arrest our fascination is completely determined by who we are. Set to a soundtrack synthesized with computer software, it’s also about the entrenchment of third world conditions in a post-industrial Los Angeles . . .
Quicktime movie: 3:15
TOLLING relies on the tension between sight and sound. The rhythm of the repetitive visual is juxtaposed by the gradually increasing dissonance of the audio.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS Quicktime movie: 15 minutes
20 disparate and tenuously related scenes.
AMERICAN EMPIRE (Soundslides)
The Flag Series required the appropriation of Jasper Johns’ iconic American Flag painting, juxtaposed with photographic, sometimes digitally altered imagea.
Quicktime Movie: Woody Allen on Jackson Pollack
(1.17MB, 55 seconds)
