SHAPESHIFTER
Works that investigate revolutions of exchange both political and sexual, transfiguration, transmutation and radical distortions of psychological entropy.
A night of film, video and performance curated by Michelle Handelman
Featuring work by:
Robert Appleton and Brandon Olson
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin
Jillian Mcdonald
Bjorn Melhus
Shannon Plumb
Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley
Abbey Williams
Tara Matiek
Curator for SHAPESHIFTER:
Michelle Handelman makes confrontational works that explore the sublime in it’s various forms of excess and nothingness. Her recent project DORIAN, a cinematic 4-screen installation premiered at Participant, Inc., NYC and will be featured in the exhibition Virtuoso Illusion, curated by Michael Rush at The MIT List Center for Visual Art (winter 2010). Her videos, performances, and publicworks have shown at Pompidou Centre, Paris; ICA, London; Performa 05; American Film Institute, SF MOMA; and Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. She directed the feature documentary BloodSisters and collaborated for several years with Monte Cazazza, pioneer of the Industrial music scene. Her writing appears in Inappropriate Behaviour (Serpents Tail, London), Apocalypse Culture (Feral House Press, Los Angeles) and Herotica 3 edited by Susie Bright (Plume Books, SF). She lives in New York and is an assistant professor in Film/video dept at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. www.michellehandelman.com
Tonight is the finale of Issue Project Room’s Fall Film/Video Series
This event made possible, in part, through funding from:
Media The Foundation