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HE INFERNAL DREAM OF MUTT AND JEFF
A gallery installation that includes film, video, photographs, drawings and objects both new and archival. Cinematographer Eric Muzzy. Cast Kate Valk 2011
This work explores how utopian visions of social progress intersect with the cinematic appartus, industrial management and modernism. It begins when Mutt and Jeff discover that hell itself has frozen over...
A web based version of the project Bodies Against Time was commissioned by Triple Canopy and can be viewed here.
Download a pdf of the catalog
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DREAMLAND: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle 1926-1972
An exhibition celebrating the centennial of Freud's visit to Coney Island. The show features "dream films" made by members of the society, a working model of an amusement park designed to illustrate Freud's theories by Albert Grass, the visionary founder of the society, as well as drawings, letters and many unusual artifacts.
Read about the exhibition in The New York Times
Read my interview about the project in Art Papers
A book and DVD that compliments the show is now available through Amazon
View the Society's award winning "Dream Films" here.
Download a pdf of installation photographs
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THE SOMNAMBULISTS
An installation comprising of five miniature wooden theaters/dioramas into which moving images are projected. Two stereoscopic HD videos each 11 minutes, color, sound. Four archival films, each approximately 1 minute, black and white, sound. 2007
Cast: Shelley Hirsch, Steven Rattazzi, Jay Smith, Rachel Neuman, Aubyn Philabaum, Tea Alagic
Musical Director: Shelley Hirsch
Technical realization: Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy
This installation centers on the idea of "staging the unconscious”. Each theater presents a hysterical drama. These include “History of a Fixed Idea” and “A Modern Case of Possession” in which two patients of the famous French psycho-pathologist Pierre Janet, express their delusions in song. The other theaters present the ghostly specters of actual hysterics filmed by doctors a hundred years ago.
Experience a web version of all five theaters here.
A book and limited edition print, published by the Christine Burgin Gallery compliment the installation and provide historical context. You can explore these projects and purchase them by going to The Somnambulists Book. The book/ is available through Amazon. |
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SILO DREAMS
A 3-D Slide/audio installation created in collaboration with Eric Muzzy. 2006
The project was inspired by a quote from the German architect Eric Mendelsohn written after his visit to Buffalo grain elevators in 1924, "I took photographs like mad. Everything else so far now seemed to have been shaped interim to my silo dreams. Everything else was merely a beginning." |
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THE IDEOPLASTIC MATERIALIZATIONS OF EVA C.
A Four Chanel Stereoscopic Surround Sound DVD Installation. 30 minutes. 2004 Cast: Tea Alagic, Kate Valk, Greg Mehrten, Fred Newman, Anthony Wellman, Jim Fletcher, Krishna Vutla, Robert Ankers
The viewer enters a darkened room to discover life size stereoscopic figures that appear to inhabit our own three dimensional space. These phantoms reenact a series of ten séances held in Algeria and Paris from 1904 to 1912 with the French medium Eva C.
Discover more information on the project including drawings, soundtracks, ideas and photographs. |
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THE INFLUENCING MACHINE OF MISS NATALIJA A.
An Interactive Video Installation. 2001
It is 1919. Victor Tausk, a Vienese psychoanalyst examines a patient, Miss Natalija A. She tells him that her mind and body are being manipulated by a mysterious electrical apparatus operated secretly by physicans in Berlin.
Discover more information on the project including video, diagrams and texts. |
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