Sunday 8th January 2017
Research: Female Video Artists
Something on Facebook prompted me to begin to look at female video artists and almost immediately I came across a Huffington Post Article.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/woman-video-artists_n_5413827.html
In the 1960s and ‘70s, artists began focusing their attention on the possibilities of the moving image through video art.
Some captured and later distorted documentation of historic events, while others explored the limits of the newly employed medium — the guidelines of the ever-evolving technique was anything but fixed. In a somewhat rare occurrence for the sadly male-centric history of art, woman artists were pioneers of video art from the very beginning. While the histories of painting and sculpture often omit the female forces from the books, the chronological lateness of video art made way for a far greater female influence.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/woman-video-artists_n_5413827.html
Alex Prager
Alex Prager (b. 1979) is a Los Angeles-based photographer and filmmaker. Prager’s elaborately staged scenes tap into a shared cultural memory drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences and references including Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture and street photography. Her familiar yet strange images suggest a sense of timelessness while also creating a world that synthesizes fiction and reality.
Janaina Tschäpe
Janaina Tschäpe explores themes of sex, death, nature, myth and transformation using her body as a vehicle. Her videos, at once organic, fluid and otherworldly, offer a space from which daydreaming can begin.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/woman-video-artists_n_5413827.html
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist (born 1962, Rheintal, Switzerland) disrupts the female objectification typical of both Hollywood and art history, creating short and color-drenched works that are as sexual as they are strange.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/woman-video-artists_n_5413827.html
Michal Rovner
Michal Rovner (born 1957, Tel Aviv, Israel) records real and staged scenarios and subsequently uses software to under- or overexpose them, mutate the color palette, and breakdown the image into something abstract and unrecognizable. Her work, not overtly political, takes conflicts and tensions and teases the reality out of them, leaving behind something altogether fuzzy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/woman-video-artists_n_5413827.html
She's a Fine Artist 