PRESS RELEASE
Smack Mellon Studios, STOCKHOLM:
Exhibition: 2nd annual VideoUS - New American Art Video.
curated by Helén Ingmari Vigil
Time: Sunday April 5th, 20.00 1998
Place: Smack Mellon Studios, Stockholm. Swedenborgsg. 21, code 1098
Limited seating! Call (08) 7201730 to ensure a seat, or mail Helen.Vigil@abc.se.
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Home (sick) 12 min
by Stephen Pascher
This is a work Stephen Pascher did with the British cultural critic Dick Hebdige. It was originally done on super 8mm, then transferred and dubbed to VHS NTSC. It we shot last summer in New Mexico in Santa Fe and outside of Albuquerque. It was most recently shown in n exhibition entitled HOT RRROD at the Forum Stadtpark in Graz Austria, Originally it was part of an exhibition called AN EXHIBITION NEXT DOOR last July in Los Angeles.
Being There II (2.10min),
Dryope's leaves (2:52 min)
Nuecochi (3:30 min)
by Su-Hee Wooh
"I my practice, video work is proper to express this absurdity and unknowns of the chaos and turbulence in the world - which is a sort of unreality. Fake and real is erased due to film making's inherently artificial nature."
The Realization of Zephyr Layer #9, (2:30 min)
by Sherry Mayo
Zolta is a pioneer of an otherworld, a space that allows for infinite expansion. She has named this space, Zephyr Layer#9, a site for dwelling, exploration and visual thinking. Zolta is a cyberspace explorer and an observer of a new space, who records images to communicate to others upon her return.
Inherited Memories, (3:30 min)
by Cynthia Beth Rubin
INHERITED MEMORIES fuses the anesthetics of painting with the illusion of movement through modulation space. The imagery alludes to real places, but the spatial tension comes from an abstract painter's play of color contrasts and decorative patterns.
Tell me what you want to hear (3 min)
by Jinhan Ko
A short Jin's Banana House performance for the camera, everything is so great....
Crystal Drifters (10 min)
Torsten Z. Burns
Om nya strategier för kommunikation, och människans inre resa .
and more...