Two video excerpts from Elise Kermani's Jocasta will
be projected simultaenously on two walls, while sound and
image intersect and play off of each other. Jocasta
is a 53 minute experimental film inspired by Euripides' play
"The Phoenician Women" (c.410 b.c.) directed by
Elise Kermani with production design by Barbara Kilpatrick
and cinematography by Alan McIntyre Smith. In the gallery
are artifacts from the film: Polyneikes' helmet, Jocasta's
breastplate, Antigone's burial sponge and water bucket - all
objects created by Barbara Kilpatrick for the film set.
Seen on video are: Vicky Shick (Chorus Leader/Guest Dancer),
Melli Hoppe (Antigone, Choreographer), Marty New (Jocasta),
Michael Potts (Oedipus/Polyneikes), McKinney Danger James
(little girl), and Kevin James, Steve Swell, Chris McIntyre
and Mike Selzer (trombonists).
Jocasta will have its premiere screening at NewFilmmakers
at the Anthology Film Archives on September 24, 2008. A site
specfic performance, with 4 trombonists and 2 dancers will
precede the screening. For more information about the film
see: www.elisekermani.com/jocasta.html
and info on the premiere: www.newfilmmakers.com
Vicky Shick has been involved in the NYC
dance community since the late 70's as a performer, choreographer
and teacher. She was a member of the Trisha Brown Company
for six years and has also danced with many other NY based
choreographers including Wendy Perron, Stephen Petronio, Susan
Rethorst, Sara Rudner and Sally Silvers. For more than a decade
she has collaborated with visual artist, Barbara Kilpatrick
and for the past five years their work has become a three-way
collaboration with performer/composer, Elise Kermani. She
has received a "Bessie" Award for performance and
another one for sustained creative achievement with Barbara
Kilpatrick. In New York she teaches for the Trisha Brown Company,
Movement Research and Hunter College. Vicky is a 2006 grant
recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Elise Kermani is a sound and multimedia
artist who is a recent graduate from the European Graduate
School's PhD program in Media Philosophy (www.egs.edu) where
she studied with film and philosophy luminaries Avital Ronell,
Wolfgang Schirmacher, Giorgio Agamben, Jean Luc-Nancy, Peter
Greenaway, Victor Burgin, Jacques Derrida, Atom Egoyan and
Elia Suleiman. The last 20 years she has been creating sound
design for many artists - most recently with Vicky Shick and
Barbara Kilpatrick.
Barbara Kilpatrick is a visual artist whose
recent work has related to dance and performance, where her
sculpture functions as set, costume and installation. Her
photographs and sculpture have been presented as solo exhibitions
at Dance Theater Workshop, St Markís Church, The Kitchen,
and most recently in Northampton, Reading and Kutztown, Pennsylvania,
as artist in residence in The New Arts Program. Her work has
also been included in group shows in museums and galleries,
including the Trisha Brown Dance Company benefit exhibition
at the Pace Gallery. Her photographs have been published in
The New York Times, Dance Magazine, Village Voice, and Time
Out New York. She has worked with a number of choreographers
through the New York region, and received, with Vicky Shick,
a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for their
body of collaborative work. Their work together has been seen
at Dance Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The
Kitchen, Danspace at St. Markís Church, the 92nd Street
Y Harkness Dance Project, P.S. 122, and Movement Research
at Judson Church. Her work with sound designer/composer Elise
Kermani includes the AVA Project (2002), the Aleph Project
(2002), Undoing (2003), Repair (2005) and Venus Hum: an imaginary
performance (2006).
Vicky, Barbara and Elise are currently creating a new dance
performance which will premiere in Budapest January, 2009
and at Dancespace in March, 2009.
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