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The morose trend that seems to have pervaded ASPECT for the first four issues needed to come to a conclusion. To that end we asked for artwork that expressed a lightness of heart, a sense of humor, or the joys of life. Joie de Vivre explores levity and humor in art and demonstrates how broadly that concept can be interpreted: long distance friendship and collaboration, a midnight snack, the pain of maintaining a smile for a length of time, discovering plaster babies, or simply exploring your neighborhood.
Further Information:
Included in this issue:
HARVEY LOVES HARVEY: Your Harvey at Work
with audio commentary by Jeff Stark
DAVID LACHMAN: Home Made
with audio commentary by Lisa Dorin
TONI LATOUR: Robin Red Breast
with audio commentary by Coleen Heslin
LIZ NOFZIGER: Bambini
with audio commentary by Leonie Bradbury
LEE WALTON: Making Changes
with audio commentary by Marisa Olson
Editor: Michael Mittelman
Creative Direction: 2Communique
Animation Director: Jonathon Ouellette
Sound Design: Andrew Mittelman
| Catalog Number: MC-385 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: New Media, Modern Culture |
| Copyright: 2005 |
Length: 35 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: 0-9749657-2-3 |
UPC: 837101052108 |
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Films In Compilation
Your Harvey at Work directed by
Harvey Loves Harvey
USA,
Experimental,
0,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:05
"Your Harvey At Work" was created at the request of Oni Gallery in Boston for an 'artists statement slam,' in conjunction with the opening of a salon show in 2003. The gallery wanted Harvey Loves Harvey to create something 'different' in line with the theme, but not a mere reading of text on paper. The result was a corporate sales video that presents Harvey Loves Harvey as a corporation, using buzz-words, vague promises and exaggerated gestures.
As a work unto itself, "Your Harvey At Work" examines the role of the artist as their own corporation with a brand identity and marketable product. Harvey Loves Harvey, as conceptual artists working in many media, must frame their pseudo-scientific studies and theory-based works through rhetoric, analysis, hype and branding. "Your Harvey At Work" is both and extension and a mockery of the very methods that have made Harvey successful.
In 2004, "Your Harvey At Work" was included in a show of collaborative art at Spaceworks@The Tank in New York. Later that year, it was also shown at Artists Foundation in Boston. For these exhibitions, Harvey Loves Harvey re-shot many scenes, and it is this updated version that is presented in ASPECT.
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Home Made directed by
David
Lachman
USA,
Experimental,
2004,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:00
David Lachman’s work explores the terrain of consciousness where familiar and unfamiliar coexist. He is concerned with creating experiences that encourage viewers to become aware of their own assumptions, ideas, and attention. Often common objects and experiences, like buying and eating some ice cream, are used to ground the work in everyday life and to emphasize the things we may take for granted. Sometimes humor is also used to explore these questions. Hopefully the work reminds us that there is more to see and to do when we approach life naively.
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Robin Red Breast directed by
Toni
Latour
Canada,
Experimental,
2004,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:06:00
In Robin Red Breast, animal behavior acts as a metaphor for human
socialization and art world posturing. While imitating the robin,
Latour offers a satirical look at boastful inclinations and a desire to be seen.
Smile depicts Latour in her motivator costume, smiling contantly for
seven minutes. As a result, her face quivers and twitches uncontrollably. The last few seconds are slowed down - her mouth finally relaxes, only to begin to smile again at the end.
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Bambini directed by
Liz
Nofziger
USA,
Experimental,
2004,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:08:00
I am fascinated by what we overlook. I examine and excavate the layered pasts of a space and/or object, reorganizing in light of contemporary culture and current events. Sparked by religion, politics, pop-culture, and personal experience, these site manipulations are comprised of familiar, benign elements re-configured, thereby blurring the lines between attraction and repulsion, high and low. Playing with perspective, voyeurism, and humor, I examine scale and demand physical involvement and curiosity from the viewer.
Neglected even by those of us trained to see, these babes were bored. While allowing physical access to the protuberant reliefs and their points of view, the ladders simultaneously provide escape routes for the bambini. Building from the phenomenon of how we experience our environments, the multiple perspectives and points of access to the varied elements of this work ask the viewer to question their own scale and their role in looking.
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Making Changes directed by
Lee
Walton
USA,
Experimental,
2004,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:08:00
By wandering the streets aimlessly- shifting, tipping, leaning, flipping, balancing, crumpling and re-position things, I am questioning my ability to "make changes".
After a day of consciously altering the objects and structures of my
surroundings, I was completely confident that things were different. There was no doubt in my mind.
Intention is key: placing bookends on time and creating experiences of amplified awareness resulting in self-alteration.
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