Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Jordan Rathus


Non fiction that blends in narrative devices, Jordan uses these themes
Lives in Brooklyn

Questions..
1)about her work
2) lifestyle question

unusual trajectory to becoming an artist.
theater- writing and acting
16 got her first camcorder
went to paris for her film class
Went to NYU for film
production assistant job right away and worked for tv production
She wasn't making art or film the way she wanted to
and went back to school
Columbia MFA program
Writing a little, making work, teaching, exhibiting, gallery space. Mix and mach of art and life

--Video based, attacking the image, but it can be entertaining and she pulls from entertainment shows and humor. And she bleieves that is the best way to attack the system. Lightness to work.

--Real work/ the game show

  • video piece
  • surreal and insane 
  •  like the real world and its a blur of reality and fiction
  • how to create on camera persona "reality" 
  • so much consideration on a person's performance
  • adjusting and editing while things are happening
  • who is really in control?


Relation with reality tv

  • using the skill set that she worked for tv and applying it to working with artists. 
  • help these people that don't know how to make a full production
Shipping container
red carpet
cut out
and 8x8 step and repeat 
Celeb culture 
hired a friend to be a paparazzi with her and took a picture with "her"
Create work from work
Have an evolution

After graduation- residency in Michigan 
  • Ox bow
  • documentation of landscape and her experience 
  • persona- when you are in the middle of no where
  • NY persona in the wilderness
--Offseason
recycled story boards scripts and notes all put together in a grid
reduced each frame from each scene and lay it back onto the paper

narrative disjointedness. people not being able to communicate reasonable, obscured and inspired by the plays in high school

story within the story, showing the production side. No fake name, persona of the artist. Extreme versions of herself. What is right and what is fair when it comes to using a culture and showing it in a piece. 

20 min short film Double Agency 
appropriating different sources- copy and pasted sounds bites from breaking bad and double identity in a critical context using humor 
stretching the idea of artwork




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