From: Christopher Harris (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Apr 10 2004 - 16:52:18 PDT
To those in the Florida area,
Please join us for the Florida premieres of these programs:
Pictures From Dorothy: Films by Kevin Everson
Monday April 12
Orlando, Florida
Downtown Media Arts Center
7:15 p.m., 39 South Magnolia Ave.
http://www.dmacorlando.com/pictures.htm
Curious About Existence: Videos By Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Tuesday, April 13
Orlando, Florida: Downtown Media Arts Center
7:15 p.m., 39 South Magnolia Ave.
http://www.dmacorlando.com/emily.htm
PLUS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF: A cure For Being Ordinary(2004) 8min.
The new video is the last in a trilogy, called The New Freedom Founders.
The first two: I am a Conjuror(2003) 8min, and Attention Public(2004)9min.
Now that the series is complete they are going to be edited together
under their full title, The New Freedom Founders(26min) 2004.
"With this project, we aim to clear a psycho-spiritual space for the
viewer which was not cleared before. We want this space to contain
empathy (identification) and joy. We want to achieve, in the making
of the works, a sensation of ecstatic transformation, because it is
our conviction that if such a sensation is present in the making of
the works, that sensation will become available to the viewer.
In order to clear this new space, we must not default to familiar
tropes. The work must seem mostly unfamiliar, even uncanny. It
cannot, however, be so unfamiliar as to repel the viewer. Offering
the viewer a place to sit between convention or cliché and confusion,
boredom or repulsion is our project with The New Freedom Founders.
We know we are destined to mostly fail, but we believe that by simply
representing our attempt, we will in some measure reach our goal."
--Duke & Battersby.
Best,
CH
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