Simone Hine

Framed

 

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Candice Cranmer, Futile Gesture No.4, 2008. Digital Video; Kellie Wells, Trying to Look Beautiful While my Hand is Burning, 2007. Digital Video; Rebecca Adams, Pucker Up, 2009. Digital Video. Installation View Framed. Level, 2011.

Framed
Rebecca Adams, Candice Cranmer, Kellie Wells
Curated by Simone Hine

Level, 3-24 June, 2011

Framed, at Level, presents a series of performative video works in which three female artists test their body through a simple action. These works draw upon the history of feminist performance art in order to present what is essentially a performance recorded on video. The change of medium replicates a shift in the subject of these performances. Where seminal performance works from the 1960s and 1970s focused on immediacy, Rebecca Adams, Candice Cranmer and Kellie Wells use video to distance the viewer from the artist and the action.

The catalogue essay can be read here.

 
Candice Cranmer, Futile Gesture No.4, 2008. Digital Video; Kellie Wells, Trying to Look Beautiful While my Hand is Burning, 2007. Digital Video. Rebecca Adams, Pucker Up, 2009. Installation View, Framed. Level, 2011.

Kellie Wells, Trying to Look Beautiful While my Hand is Burning, 2007. Digital Video; Rebecca Adams, Pucker Up, 2009. Digital Video. Installation View, Framed. Level, 2011.

Candice Cranmer, Futile Gesture No.4, 2008. Digital Video; Kellie Wells, Trying to Look Beautiful While my Hand is Burning, 2007. Digital Video. Installation View, Framed. Level, 2011.

Kellie Wells, Trying to Look Beautiful While my Hand is Burning, 2007. Digital Video; Rebecca Adams, Pucker Up, 2009. Digital Video. Installation View, Framed. Level, 2011.

Candice Cranmer, Futile Gesture No.4, 2008. Digital Video; Kellie Wells, Trying to Look Beautiful While my Hand is Burning, 2007. Digital Video. Installation View, Framed. Level, 2011.

Candice Cranmer, Futile Gesture No.4, 2008. Digital Video. Installation View, Framed. Level, 2011.

Rebecca Adams, Pucker Up, 2009. Digital Video. Installation View, Framed. Level, 2011.

Framed, Installation View (Catalogue). Level, 2011.

 
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