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Guts of Memory is the
second “episode” of the e.g.g..head series. The film is based on the
poetry of Andrea Fisher Rowland & Gordon Fisher—my Aunt and Grandfather
respectively—both of whom were prolific writers & performers throughout their
lives. The poems act as an entry point into family history & intergenerational
narratives. Presented as a series of metaphysical interviews, the work is ... read morea sardonic and
a deeply personal investigation into feelings of grief, questions of cyclical
conditioning, and the hope for change. In this piece, members of my family & I
perform edited versions of the poems, with the original writings paired included within
the installation. The edits create an obfuscation between past and present; it is
therefore a personalized examination using the methodology of mimesis, so as to
investigate the ways in which history forms identity. Words from the past present
themselves in a futurist context, yet many of the poems are applicable in our
contemporary world. Beneath the strangeness, The Guts of Memory examines the
responsibility of artists—and more generally, of media—to deconstruct
implicit patterns of bias. What is inherent, what is
inherited?
Contains: A PDF describing the
behind-the-scenes process of making Ep. 2 (Materials: PDF); a video (Materials: 3D
Animation, CGI, Motion Capture; Duration:
2:45)
Keywords: 3D Animation, CGI, Motion Capture,
Poetry, Autodesk Maya, Family History, Performance, Video, Film, Installation,
Theatroclasm, Mimesis, family, history, futurism, surrealism, video art, experimental
narrative, critical mimicryread less
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