Helen Mirra Videoworks: Volume 1
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Chicago Art, Family, Gender, Performance, Videoworks
In the four videos on this compilation, Helen Mirra utilizes performance, repetition, and the recitation of song to evoke the natural world, the sea, and landscape. Social conventions are questioned, along with our closest relationships and the development of the self.
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The image comes up suddenly and then continues unwavering: a young person (Mirra) dressed in a black watchcap and pea coat stands at the edge of a large body of water and sings a sea shanty, occasionally flinching to emphasize certain lyrics or...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: gender, performance |
"'I am nice. I...am nice. I am...nice,' repeats the narrator, in this personal and highly poetic exploration of the construction of self. Mirra favors repetition as the device for reconstructing the stage of development when a child learns its...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: chicago art, performance |
Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan (translated as “sleeping den”), this montage is the result of a script that reconfigures over two hundred lines of English subtitles, lifted from films ranging from Battleship Potemkin and ...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: language, performance |
Made from silent black and white tube camera footage of the artist taken by her father in the early 70s, this series of loops—through the examination of particular moments and gestures— is evocative for what it reveals and conceals about their...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: family, performance |
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