www.goarmy.com is a web site designed for the American army by Southern California University ICT. Technology and propaganda supported by a combination of corporations, university research departments and the army's futuristic projections (Future Combat Systems). In this section, through the filter of propaganda, we see future recruits and the process of immersion in army culture. A catalogue of psycho-emotional jabs to create the ideal soldier
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Inspired by Maurice Blanchot's novel Thomas the Obscure and the experience of observing his child acquiring speech, Hill extends the dialogue between semantics and consciousness in this heuristic tour de force. Depicting the synesthesia of reading and the dreamwork of the text, Hill grounds the viewer in the activity of becoming the text through a succession of evocative scenarios and revelatory motifs.
I explore the overlapping structures of skin and landscape to arouse sensations of underlying violence, psychological tension, or a supernatural facade. A piece is finished when I believe it articulates a single moment in time. My works reveal no gender, dealing rather with complex issues of identity, environmental awareness, and distortions of time, cognition and where-with-all in a world lacking unfettered sensitivity. The pieces intensify conjunctions of spiritualism, vulnerability, transgression, contradictory interpretations of meaning, and horror, and may invoke connections with the macroscopic world.
2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
A man and a woman distanced, interact dynamically while coupled at a place of simple domesticity. In Stabilities seeks to locate the site of action in a context of shared relations. Bain collaborating with Finish dancer Mia Keinanen utilizes high speed digital videography and time lapse imaging to trace the trajectories of bodies in motion; slowing down and magnifying the subtle forms of interplay. At times this piece mimics a Keatonesque action all the while illuminating the kind of motion-space which connects us all.
UntitledLong suppressed by missionaries and then by Soviet anti-religious campaigns, Siberian shamanism has experienced an unprecedented revival following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the number of shamans continues to rise. But who are these new shamans? Are they tricksters, magicians, businessmen, or cultural activists? This film takes a behind-thescenes look at a Buryat shaman living on an island in Lake Baikal as he moves between intimate shamanic rituals performed for local clientele and shows performed at various resorts for Western tourists in search of “primitive” cultures.
UntitledUnscalable walls, security cameras, deserted streets, surrounding villas and houses; architectural styles: californian gothic, imperial roman, germanic bunker, a catalogue of lonliness and persecutions
UntitledSurprisingly licentious advertising cartoon produced by the Fleischer brothers. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)
In Light, In!is a haunting, visual essay about the awkward and angry junctures where our culture struggles to manage its emotional distress. Images recycled from 1950’s-era educational films are accompanied by original compositions by cellist, Zoe Keating.
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