004: PFVAC + SPACE

Artists include Sydney and Keith Fitzgerald, Ling-Wen Tsai, Stefanie Loeb, Betsy Nelson, Peter Shellenberger, Kenneth White, and Deborah Wing-Sproul. Their works utilize film and video in combination with painting, performance, fabric, and large-format photography, to expand our understanding of moving images.

Sydney and Keith Fitzgerald present an experimental Super 8 tour around Mackworth Island in “Yslaneyd.” Ling-Wen Tsai, in collaboration with composer Nathan Kolosko, present “Water & Wind: Water Bugs,” a new video in their on-going exploration of invisible elemental energies. Stefanie Loeb’s “Cotton and Silk” uses film and cloth garments to address the materials’ transformation over time.

Using Super 8 projection, painting, and performance, Betsy Nelson addresses the currently fashionable convergence of feminism and domesticity in “Domestic Fowl: Birds Kept for their Eggs and Flesh.” The flammability of celluloid film is the focus of Peter Shellenberger’s “Fool Render Dust,” a projection of the B – Monster Movie War of the Colossal Beast, continuously looped until the film’s disintegration.

“Directions of Encounter” by Kenneth White explores the pliability of time and place in quintessential Maine Coast imagery using video projection on to large-format transparent DURAclear prints from Super 8. Deborah Wing-Sproul presents her new performance-based video “Tidal Culture, Part II: Newfoundland, Latitude 49.42N / Longitude 54.45W,” the latest work in her on-going address of impermanence in environmental and cultural conditions.

New Projections + Installations by the Portland Film + Video Artists Collective

5 - 27 September 2007

Opening Reception: 7 September

Artist Talks and Performances: 20 September