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[amberdchristensen]

curated program film and video from Saskachewan for Regional Support Network presented in cooperation with Videofag, Saskatchewan Filmpool and PAVED Arts. 

[amberdchristensen]

Daddy Set's the Beat was installed at PAVED Arts for awhile in January 2014 as part of Toon's Kitchen. 

Toon’s Kitchen XIII: Daddy Sets The Beat

Amber Christensen & Karen Polowick Essay by Megan Morman January 17 – 31, 2014 Public Reception: Friday, January 17@ 8:00.

Amber Christensen and Karen Polowick have been working together since 2009 and are inspired by the work of early feminist video artists such as Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen and also by contemporary artists Shawna Dempsey & Lori Millan. Their collaborative project, bearing the full title Daddy Sets the Beat: the subjugation of an orphan girl, is a self-reflexive parody of the dogmatic politics that often accompany “second wave feminism.” Filmed on Super 8 and hand processed, the medium is employed to evoke a sense of nostalgia, given that the scratches and imperfections of hand processing also reflect qualities associated with found footage. Daddy sets the Beat acts as a performance of an imaginary history, evoking the possibility that these works could potentially be the product of a feminist video artist working in another era. Christensen and Polowick mix this content with a contemporary perspective; one which is caught between rejection and adoration for the didacticism of early feminism.

[codenamevideo]

We made this. 

[amberdchristensen]

Created in response to John Cage’s piece “5, for any 5 voices or instruments” for PAVED Art’s Surround Sound series (March 2013). This is a collaboration with Karen Polowick. The video was screened with a live performance of John Cage’s “5” by the Saskatoon Symphony’s Woodwind Quintet. You can check out the silent version of our video response here...and you can listen to a variation of the John Cage piece here.

Link to original post on PAVED arts page

[latitude53]

Galleries West magazine visited PAVED Arts to review Emanuel Licha's work there—if you've only seen the work we had up here this January, take a look at their take on other half of the show in Saskatoon.