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Michelle Handelman
Michelle Handelman (M.F.A. Bard College; B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute)
is an award-winning visual artist working in video installation, performance,
and digital media. Her experimental video work has shown internationally
including the Georges Pompidou Centre,
Paris; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and the American Film
Institute. Her feature documentary BloodSisters received critical acclaim,winning
the 1999 Bravo Award. Handelman has recently finished a collaboration
with Paul Miller AKA DJ Spooky “DJ Spooky vs. WebSpinstressM”
,a wry look at the pecking order of the art world realized through animation
and live
action footage which will have it’s Los Angeles premiere at the
Freewaves Festival. She has performed in the Lynn Hershman-Leeson productions,
Twists in the Cord and Virtual Love for ZDF and Arte Television, and
composed music for Jon Moritsugu's ITVS production, Terminal USA. Handelman's
fiction and critical writing appears in Inappropriate Behaviour (Serpents
Tail,
London), Apocalypse Culture (Feral House Press,
Los Angeles), Herotica 3 edited by Susie Bright
(Plume Books, SF) and several publications including Filmmaker Magazine,
Art Forum and Indiewire.com. She teaches in the Media Studies department
of The New School University and her work is represented by Cristinerose
Gallery, NYC and Catharine Clark Gallery,
San Francisco.
In 1999 Handelman moved to New York from San Francisco and had her first
one-person show at the Cristinerose Gallery (Feb. 2000). Her work has
also been included in group shows at the Jack Tilton/Anna
Kustera Gallery and Exit Art. Working in the tradition of feminist body
artist who use their bodies not just as makers of the work, but as agents
of the work, Handelman states, "My work can
be described by theorist, Helene Cixous’ ideas of Visceral Feminism:
aggressively traversing the corporeal landscape in it’s various
forms of excess and undress, while simultaneously giving it up for the
viewer in an overflow of visual and psychological
sensations.”
Her on-going performance project The Adventures of Lucky M first premiered
at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and will expand this Spring
as a week-long performance at Palais du
Tokyo, Paris. “Lucky M gives me license to exploit
my childhood fantasies mining sci-fi movies, comic books and fairy tales
for stories of the unreal. I plan on taking her through many narratives,
working with choreographers and stunt trainers, and
building her an interactive website where viewers can implicate themselves
in her thrill-seeking adventures.”
Awards include finalist for 2000 Rockefeller
Fellowship; 1999 Bravo Award for;
finalist for the 1997 Sundance Screenwriters Lab; 1996 Sony Visions
Award from The American Film Institute for her short video, "Hope";
1994 grants from the Horizons Foundation and Film Arts Foundation for
BloodSisters, and in 1991 she was awarded the first SF Artspace video
post-production grant for her experimental narrative, A History of Pain.
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Title: Dj Spooky vs Web Spinstress
Show: The Poetics of Bandwidth
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