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WORK WORK WORK 2009 |
Through photography and sculpture, WORK WORK WORK focuses on the body as a tool for production via repetitive and restrictive processes. |
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Self Geste 2009 |
Self Geste performs the reproduction of gestures applied to the body, demonstrating a desire towards a mastery of the working body itself. This video emphasizes a shift from an outward projection of effort to an internalized experience of work. video stills > video excerpts > |
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Pump 2009 |
Pump
is a time-compressed presentation of a rubber ball's inflation. The
performed action creates visual and audible rhythms, while the object's
enlargement gradually supplants the body of its producer. |
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Holepunch 2009 |
The video continues my exploration of the mechanized body through the
obsessive and repetitive action of hole punching. With the irregular
movement of the falling paper, the piece steers away from precise
choreography, pairing mechanical gesture with indeterminate results. video stills > video excerpts > |
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Stereo Efficiency Cheer single-channel video 5 min 49 sec colour, stereo sound 2008 |
Stereo Efficiency Cheer presents the artist performing the role of a deadpan cheerleader and reciting an original rhymed cheer entitled “Be Efficient!”. The cheer champions productivity and maximized output, in reference to early twentieth century motion studies and industrial management. video stills > video excerpts > images > |
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Exercises in Napery single-channel video |
Exercises in Napery focuses on napkin folding as a disciplined and repetitive task. Divided into three parts, the video begins with a fast-paced instructional video, followed by a task-based performance, and concludes with a stop-motion animation. Through humour and rigour, theatricality and militarism, absurdity and irony, the video examines the economy of labour practices associated with domesticity and the service industry. video stills > video excerpt > |
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Trait c-prints 25" x 40" 2006/2009 |
The photographic series Trait studies the grammar of the horizon line through temporal yarn forms drawn in space by the extension of the hands and arms. The traditional perspectival use of the horizon line, in addition to other colour compositions, suggests landscapes drawn flat in relation to the body. |
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A Series of Slow Processions installation |
The
installation presents a sculpture of stainless steel wire and cotton,
set against a video projection of the weaving process on a computerized
Jacquard loom. A Series of Slow Processions engages with
gendered labour through performative production, with the intersections
of surface, structure, and duration, and with the embodiment of process
in an object. images > |
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Gesture, Utterance, Quixote single-channel video 2 min 30 sec colour, stereo sound 2008 |
Gesture, Utterance, Quixote
is a composition that explores the expressive quality of hand gestures,
detached from verbal communication. A pair of hands takes the spotlight
and performs to a musical excerpt from Ludwig Minkus' ballet score, Don Quixote. video stills > video > |
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Print inkjet prints on archival photorag 18" x 18" 2008 |
The flatbed scans of printmaking
tools was a project I started while on residency at the Sagamie
National Centre for Digital Art. The centre’s printmaking equipment had
been stored in a basement as their production is now completely
digitally-based. In an effort to understand the historical process, I
decided to formally work with these tools, creating “impressions”
through scanning and printing on photorag. Each item is isolated by a
black background, foregrounding the tools as sacralized relics. I am
interested in how these objects, in relation to my other bodies of
work, articulate the hand-made, ritualized gesture, and manual labour. images > |
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© Karen Zalamea 2003-2009
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