This work is a video projection and sound sculpture that creates a metamorphsis from the theater of hysteria to the choreography of the female heroines of martial arts. It is accompanied by a narrative of disturbances in the fabric of human intimacy followed by a three-minute symphony constructed entirely of screams.
"I am interested in the spectacles of the past and how they help us to comprehend the technological and cultural changes of the present. I am looking at how identity is constructed socially and how this manifests in the construction of labor and of gender. This piece would be a metaphor about transformation-from the 19th century to the 21st from the industrial revolution to the technological revolution seen throught the shifting and changing relationship between public and private spheres." (Toni Dove from original installation proposal.)
Artists' Biography
Toni Dove is an installation artist who works with electronic media and computer-based technologies. She was co-curator of "Performing Bodies and Smart Machines" at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris and recently completed a virtual reality installation at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. She is currently working on an interactive laser disk and sound environment.
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