WEDNESDAY
Critique of Video Art
Author: Diane
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Week 5
WEDNESDAY
Discuss field trip:
Maria Ezcurra, Passing (2022) is an installation of recovered and deconstructed shoes inviting viewers to navigate a space filled with bird silhouettes. Maria juxtaposes these comforting flying figures with deconstructed shoes to symbolize the resilience and vulnerability of migrant populations. Doing so, the artist highlights intricate connections between migration journeys and various aspects of life, including the environment, economy, society, and politics. (From the TBA website) 
Raven Chacon – Three Songs (2021) is a three-channel video installation that explores a history of Native resistance and questions the myth of an uninhabited American West. In the video, Indigenous women appear singing in their languages and playing instruments while they occupy historical sites of massacres, violence, and the forced displacement of tribal peoples. The work features Sage Bond (Diné), Jehnean Washington (Yuchi) and Mary Ann Emarthle (Seminole) who sung in their native tongue a history of resistance on the Trail of Tears, the Navajo Long Walk, and the forced expulsion of the Seminole. (From TBA website) 
https://www.naomirincongallardo.net/sonnet_of_vermin.html
In Sonnet of Vermin, a legion of unwanted creatures related to the Mesoamerican underworld attempt to syntonize with one another and with the dead in the midst of a planetary cataclysm. The vermin are unspecific animals who are asociated with negative aspects, damage or destruction. A bat broadcasts frequencies from a tomb with the help of a funerary bundle/radio. A group of frogs/children are paranormal cyborgian amphibians who have adapted to toxicity and they demand another fix of cyanide. A twisted scorpion is a bad omen who claims for the right of infection. A snake sheds her skin while she announces the transformation of the cycles. A telluric alligator devours all what she finds on her way. A brigade of arms insists on raising from the earth. All of them seek for a subaltern solidarity and queer relationality as a form of re-existance within the ruins. (from the artist’s website)
Leila Zelli (@leila.zelli) is a Montreal-based artist born in Tehran whose work explores the relationship that we have with the ideas of “others” and “elsewhere” and, more specifically, within the geopolitical space often referred to by the questionable term “Middle East.” She creates in situ digital installations using existing images, videos, and texts often found on the Internet. With the resulting visual and sound experiences, she creates an opportunity for viewers to reflect on the state of the world, their relationship with the Other, and the actual effect of our actions on humanity. Leila will be presenting Pourquoi devrais-je m’arrêter ?(Why should I stop?) (2020-21), a video installation shown on two screens. The work pays tribute to the resilience of Iranian women who defy the ban on practicing Varzesh-e Bâstâni in public, a traditional form of athletics. (from the Toronto Biennial of Art)
REMINDERS – You should have your KM work with notes, your reading notes for the Poppilotti Rist article, and a short blog post describing some of the work you saw at the Field Trip.
Studio video recording for today’s groups
Discussions of footage, editing, and work in progress with Diane
Wednesday
*Final Cut Pro Editing demonstration with Nathan – bring your footage!
Work time in class
Consultations on editing*
*Show work in progress – I will be discussing with each group.
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Week 4
MONDAY
No class meeting in lieu of FIELD TRIP Friday Sept. 27th – 9:30am – 6pm
Due: FIELD TRIP BLOG POST
WEDNESDAY
Due: Videos BRAINSTORM – present ideas with your group in a roundtable
Work in progress
Studio bookings for Friday
9:30 – 11:30
11:30 – 1:30
1:30 – 3:30
3:30- 5:30
Bookings for MONDAY in class:
Class meeting and discussion of field trip videos
Close up studio: 3- 5
Wide studio: 3- 5
Close up studio 5 – 7
Wide studio 5 – 7
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