Boston Biennial 5 - Finalist Video Gallery



Messenger
Bill Psarras

'Messenger' constitutes a peripatetic poem, which combines site-specific elements of a walking performance for camera, the accompanying object of light bulb, personal poetry and soundscape. It explores the idea of returning to the intimate – in an imaginary and geographical matrix – as a solitary ambulatory process of transmitting the message with future potential.
Juror's Choice Video

Imagining Blue
China Blue Wong

“Imagining Blue” is an interactive brainwave sculpture that uses the participants’ minds to dynamically control the light, the motion and the sounds of the sculpture. This work gives the audience a previously unexplored view of the workings of their own minds. It enables users to observe their own current brain in action. The music is based on the sounds of neurons firing and breathing.

Maybe We'll Have Another Chance
Francois-Xavier de Costerd



The Death of Painting in the Age of Digital Over Production
Francois-Xavier de Costerd

Andy Warhol talks about painting like a machine and listening to really good music

Thirst
Kei Ito

This work is based on the story my grandfather told me. If the death was the first thing the A-bomb gave to the people in Hiroshima, burnt flesh and unbearable thirst was the next. Many survivors jumped into a river to ease their deadly thirst though many of them were drown. By the next morning, the river was filled with bodies staring at the sky and the sun.

Prophecy, Data Glut
Charlene Liska

Prophetic visions cast as sound waves and digital audio transcription, a whole new world of silences.

Correspondences of a solitary man
Tran Trong Vu

Installation of a text the artist has written for 21 days as a diary. Printed on A4 paper, and installed under fluorescent light.

An Ecstatic Escape or The Extermination of the Real
Francois-Xavier de Costerd

Based on the text by Jean Beaudrillard "Hyperreal and Imaginary" With audio from Noam Chomsky and a 1999 talk given by Beaudrillard titled "The Murder of the Real"

Ribbon Dancer
Barbara Felix

A short experimental stop motion animation shot with green screen on a small green screen stage built for upcoming claymation animation work. I used transparent wide glittery ribbon that gave unanticipated but interesting results. It has original music created with Garage Band on my iPhone. It was edited with Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Premier Pro and Audition.

Topography of soil emerge
farzin foroutan

?To me, soil is the first abstraction of an archive; something more than what you walk and lie on. Soil is the memory of centuries; the archive of the memory of humankind; and when my body unites with it, I can experience those memories.

Anonymous Doors
farzin foroutan

Belonging to nowhere. Somewhere between the outside and inside.Among mute reality and blind imagination. Here could be an exact place not belonging to us but hence is closer than anywhere. Unknown and exotic places seem more familiar from faraway and between the doors.

iceland on icleand
Crystal Heiden

in this video I combine multiple fragments pulled from a single take while driving down a single road passing a single mountain to examine the landscape at all angles of that singular place

The Contorted Regard
Dimitrije Martinovic

At the heart of THE CONTORTED REGARD is the notion that the “rant” may be used as a method of explicating the prevalence of existential threats. Which is to say that the rant is in essence a form of purging of that, which is unwanted, that which we are haunted by - the rant is arrogance and mediocrity combined with pride, shame, and fear.

CHANGE
Elizabeth Michelman

A proselytizing church door beckons; a laundromat buzzes and thumps; snowbanks light up as cars blink past in the cacophony of an ordinary New England town on a winter’s night. Our pilgrim traverses the workaday world ---profane, tedious, grating, yet marked with moments of transcendence. Written language posted at the scene escorts us through and returns us to our own lives----changed?

bodyofwork
CHRISTINE PALAMIDESSI

artist as model riffing on 1. prehistory art when humans used their skin as canvas; 2. the work of Yves Klein, early pioneer of performance art 3. fingerprinting in the police station 4. sports fans painting their faces, etc, to show support of teams

LOS HIJOS DE PAPÁ INOCENCIO (The Children of Papa Inocencio)
Laura Torres

A family fights and schemes over who will be buried in a mausoleum built by their grandfather, after they discover that the mausoleum has historical significance.
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