Video Installations
Dust. To Dust
While more men now clean the house than in previous generations, I would wager that it’s women who still put more time, or perhaps conviction, into this grunt job. However, according to the vagaries of current web research, women clean less often now than their mothers and grandmothers, (around 10 hours per week less), and more women are happier with the task of cleaning because they have thankfully/heartily embraced lower standards of cleanliness. The “White Glove Test” has turned to gray.
Dust to Dust is a collection of women’s thoughts, stories, truisms, about cleaning, and dubious cleaning tips. Contributors are: Jess Wilimek, Alice Strand, Lori Forshay Donnay, Georgine Gross, Barbara Olsen, Gayle Streier, Lorie Yourd, Pat Rall, Gayle Rixen, Geri Wilimek, Paula Swenson and Vivienne Morgan. Click to view the video (844 megs).
Sitting with Our Selves 2003
Part fun house and part virtual genetic experiment, this interactive video booth was an early video camera experiment which allowed people to sit side by side and meld their faces. The sitters were prompted with audio questions and cues to move together and speak together, raising questions about individuality identity, and genetic history. The images were sent randomly to a web browser with multiple windows. Here the random images were shown alongside a video of a swamp creature rising out of the mud in one window, and an animation of blood with a heartbeat audio. Click to see one sequence with two sitters.