United & Severed: That Window of Time is an interdisciplinary artwork based on interviews and collaboration with three women living with traumatic injuries. Personal stories of shock injury are integrated in an installation art space using sculpture, video, audio, choreography, and text. The installation is designed to explore mobility both physically and conceptually. Artists, Kristine Diekman and Karen Schaffman collaborated on writing, audio, video, choreography, and installation. Richard Keely and Ann O’Cain collaborated on the sculpture and its installation. Kim Anderson, Ivy, and Michelle Caputo shared their experiences of mobility through interviews and creative action. The artwork exists as both a scalable installation and a single channel video.
Exhibition Installations:
California Center for the Arts, 2008
Art Produce, San Diego, 2009
Screenings:
2010 International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy
2010 Istanbul Dance Film Festival
2009 “Topographies: Sites, Bodies, and Technologies”, Society of Dance History Scholars, Stanford University
2009 Festival de VIDEODANZA 2009, Tijuana, Mexico
2008 Mostravideo Itaú Cultural, Brazil, “Memory and Time”
2008 SEEDS Festival; Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science
Conference Presentations:
2009 College Art Association, Empathy and Media Panel
2008 California Center for the Arts; panel on traumatic injury and narrative; artist’s talk
2008 CORD, “Receptions”, Congress on Research and Dance