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What compelled you to make this piece? How does this work address issues that are important to you or close to your heart?
On the one hand, the piece developed as a "solution" to the circumstance of the artist working alone in the studio, using the monitor as a mirror. The resultant posturing, posing, mugging, and gesturing constitutes for me, the essence of the performative impulse, stemming from that set of conditions.
Characters from previous pieces re-appear here, (though their "facts" have changed), along with references to images from art, photography, advertising, film, theater and the everyday. I wanted this piece to function as an archive, or catalog providing me with a repository of transient identities, which I could continue to "re-write" in subsequent work.
In my work, I'm always attempting to mediate between external and internal influences; what you see and what you believe, what you express and what you feel. The mechanism of this piece presented an opportunity to reflect on, and demonstrate the fluidity of that mediation, through the mutability of one figure.
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How does living in the New York metropolitan area affect your work?
I am a native New Yorker, and therefore entitled to a classic love/hate relationship with the city . . . I'd better leave it at that.
In including your work in REEL NEW YORK, do you think your piece in any way pushes the medium of television, or the viewing audiences' expectations of that medium?
The TV viewing audience is so large and diverse, and expectations vary enormously. Viewing non-narrative work on television requires a different kind of engagement, which I would think a portion of the audience would welcome.
What about access to the tools of production and post-production?
There are currently so many different formats and editing systems, it's confusing. I look forward to standardization, but technology changes so rapidly, I doubt if that will happen. I'm increasingly able to navigate the options more clearly.
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Why did you become a film/video artist/maker?
Video presented an opportunity to integrate my interests in performance, direction, choreography, sound, sculpture, photography, and design. These pieces each exist either as single channel works, or combine with other elements to form installations.
Do you feel the New York independent film/video community has changed in recent years? Do you find support living and working in such a large community of artists?
I come out of the art community, which seems to be merging with the film/video community, as video and film becomes as prevalent in the gallery context as photography, painting, and sculpture. Most foundations are very far behind in addressing this critical shift. Funding policies perpetuate boundaries between "media" which fail miserably to recognize the way artists work. I do however find tremendous intellectual support, and abundant opportunities for my work to be seen in different contexts, through these communities.
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