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New York Fragmental – an ode to New York as seen through a cell phone.

By the artist not known as Bitter Irene. Music: Rhapsody in D Minor by Darkroom

Bitter Irene’s artist statement.

Since the early 90′s my work has been based on combining various media – acrylic, pastel, oil bar, soap bar, video, cake frosting, and meat to create colourful, conceptually based sociopolitical drawings/paintings, installations,time-based screen art and cream puffs.

In my work, I deconstruct the American dream, the lesser known Canadian dream, the princess dream, dreams of attending parties wearing only pyjamas, and the real meaning behind REO Speedwagon’s Dream Weaver lyrics.

My work also addresses the limitations of gender roles where I like to explore their vast comic potential, the universal fear of clowns. And puppies.

I usually work on several bodies of work concurrently, as my creative muse directs me. Sometimes I throw many themes together in one work in a seemingly haphazard way, hoping that the viewer takes away something of their own from it. I often do this when I am in a hurry.

At times these themes are combined into installations that feature mundane domestic objects, like spoons. Sometimes I put things in the spoons. Sometimes I don’t.

I like to make videos with beginnings and middles. I don’t usually have endings to my films, as I find them very hard to write, and am usually done with the idea by that time.

The color white establishes a dream-like surreal quality, suggesting notions of purity and safety. I don’t use it.

If asked to succinctly describe my oeuvre, I’d like to think that my conceptual sculpture weds minimal form with maximal content. But then I think that just sounds really pretentious, which makes me love the quote even more!

Currently working on:
Fragments
Fragments 2
Fragments Toujours
Connections
Deeper connections
Untitled.

Special thanks to Darkhorse
and ccmixter.org.

Made for Semanal 08

Tags: New York, mobile video, cell phone video, Darkroom, mactonite, ccmixter, bitter tv, artist statements, art, experimental film

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