_Lives in New York
Under
the Skin Game, 1996
Video
(b/w, sound), 17'30''
Courtesy of the artist
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In
my video work I am interested in exploring the intersection of media,
politics and every day life. I collect, rearrange, reconstruct and re-present
combinations of found footage, sampled sounds, text and shot material
to critique the electronic mediation of daily life. Fragmentation, appropriation
and digital manipulation are used as strategies of resistance and as ways
to subvert the power of images and ideologies portrayed by dominant media
culture. In these experimental tapes, I have been interested in investigating
such issues as family, racism, cultural identity and reproductive technologies.
Under the Skin Game is an experimental documentary about the contraceptive
implant Norplant and how it is used as an instrument of social control.
It explores Norplant as a legislative "tool" to be used against
the poor and against those who have been historically victimized on the
basis of gender, race, and class. Currently I am working on a tape called
In the Blood (working title), which is about American Jewish attitudes
towards Germans.
Please also
visit the archive of Basis-Wien at
http://www.basis-wien.at
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