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Art and Art History Student Work
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Work Title (display):
Are You Still Recording
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video
Work Description:
Artist Statement: Are You Still Recording? Is an experimental video installation that is re-contextualizing an archive of home movies, video and sound recordings, including, voicemail messages from my father and other natural and instrumental recorded sounds. I am investigating the ways in which personal narrative can underscore the collective narrative through the format of experimental video, installation, and writing. // I intend to reference and examine ideas relating to memory, time, nature, recording, and notions of the collective. I am also interested in themes and relationships like home movie as ethnography, as well as notions of identity, materiality, subjectivity, and objectivity. I use this archive as the raw material to create an experimental video that is projected onto a front and rear projecting mirroring screen (8ft x 8ft hand built). The screen functions as a dual sided fourth wall where the viewer can see the projection from both the interior and exterior of the installation. The experimental video utilizes family home movies spanning from 1952-2018. I investigate and demonstrate the lineage of amateur film makers and projectionist in my family as well as create an abstract non-linear narrative that reveals private and public histories. // Through the use of layering voicemail messages from my father over an archive of home movie footage I emphasize the relationship between these different but familiar modes of recording. The layering creates a new context for the image and sound to exist. I use light as a key element in the work to reveal and conceal certain fragments of the moving image. The result creates a sensorial, melancholic, meditative, familiar, and dream like experience. Simultaneously, the moving image and the audio helps to create tension by utilizing contrasting elements like repetition, scale, light, texture, perspective and time to reference the relationships we have with the material and the immaterial, the mundane and the fascinating, the real and the preformed, the comedic and the traumatic, the familiar and the familial.
Work Dates (display):
2018
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Rachel Wright (American, born 1989)
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Written thesis: https://aahvrc.colo
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
MFA 2016, Art and Art History
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Film (IMAP) student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
Work Creator memberOf notes:
IMAP: Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices
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memory
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memory
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time
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time
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nature
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nature
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identity
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identity
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family history
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family history
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narrative (artistic device)
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narrative (artistic device)
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memory
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memory
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time
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time
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nature
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nature
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communities (social groups)
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communities (social groups)
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home movies
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home movies
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archives
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archives
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identity
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identity
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Work Worktype:
sound installations
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sound installations
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video art
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video art
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film (discipline)
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film (discipline)
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installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
films
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films
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Work Material and Technique (display):
Video and Sound Installation.
Work Measurements (display):
running time: 00:08:33
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado, Boulder. Art Museum
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display):
© Rachel Wright
Work Rights (display):
© Rachel Wright
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Subcollection:
Art and Art History Student Work Archive
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