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| Zoe Beloff grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1980 she moved to New York to study at Columbia University where she received an MFA in Film. Her work has been exhibited in museums, cinemas and galleries internationally. For example her films have been screened at: MoMA, The New York Film Festival, Rotterdam Film festival, and Pacific Film Archives. She participated in the 1997 and 2002 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennials. Her interactive works are in the collections of the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art Helsinki and the Pompidou Center in Paris.
She is represented by the Bellwether Gallery in New York.
Zoe works with a variety of cinematic imagery: film, stereoscopic projection performance, interactive media and installation. Her projects are philosophical toys, objects to think with. More and more she finds herself fascinated by phantoms, by images that, "are not there". She would like to think of herself as an heir to the 19th century mediums whose materialization séances conjured up unconscious desires, in the most theatrical fashion. Though lacking psychic abilities she confesses to relying on cinematic illusionism or one could say the cinematic "medium". Zoe is engaged in re-invigorating technologies such as stereoscopic imagery and dioramas that have largely been abandoned since the invention of the cinema. Sometimes she uses archaic apparatuses, sometimes, new analog/digital hybrids. She works with film, live 3-D projection performance, interactive cinema on CD-ROM and video installation. Each project aims to connect the present with the past, to create new visual languages where modern media will once again be invested with the uncanny. She is currently working on a series of projects which investigate the history of hysteria in relation to performance, cinema and art. She has collaborated with artists from other disciplines. In 1994 she created Life Underwater with composer John Cale, a live show performed at St. Ann’s that brought together film, 3-D slides, music and the spoken word. In 1996 the Wooster Group Theater invited her to make her CD-ROM “Where Where There There Where”, in conjunction with their play “House Lights”. Composer, singer and performance artist Shelley Hirsch created the score for her installation, "The Somnambulists". |
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