A Prairie Horror

high definition video • 13:28 minutes • 2011

This work was created in residence at Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba School of Art

Hunger

3-channel video • 2011

The artist inserts her image digitally into TV and film scenes from Twilight (New Moon), True Blood, and Being Human. As the (replaced) ingénue hopeful of shared immortality, she is locked in endless staring contests with Edward, Bill, and Mitchell - the leading male vampires from these series who share brooding good looks, apparent youth, advanced vampire years, immortality's curse, abstinence from blood and in some cases sex, and an ability to pass as mortal. These are the new breed vampires of our dreams - insatiable, beautiful, charming, yet dangerous. Separate hungers unite them with their mortal prey. Time is suspended in the staring contests where no one wins and no one loses.

Slasher Cycle

4-channel video installation • in post-production, 2011

Starring Reid Johnston as Michael Myers, Pawel Kruk as Jason Voorhees, Joe McKay as Freddy Krueger, and Beckley Roberts as Leatherface!

This work was shot in residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts in California

Incident at the Pool

high definition video • 5:40 minutes • 2011

A desert sunbather is killed by her potted cacti, the body dumped poolside.

This work was created in residence at ASU Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

Field of the Dead and Undead

high definition video • 18:30 minutes • 2011

Various people enter a foggy field one by one, die, then stagger off as zombies. Meanwhile other zombies haunt the gloomy field. The actors were all given a simple instruction, shot separately, and composited together (a process that took three years to complete) to lend their appearances an other-worldly quality.

Featuring Alan Breus, John Crutchfield, Melissa Day, Luisa Greenfield, Dana Hemenway, Audrey Hope, Ginelle Hustrulid, Shahzad Ismaily, Julie Kahn with dogs Hadley and Logan, Seth Lower, Ivy Ma, Anoushka Mirchandani, Amy O'Neal, Jenni Quilter, Erin Soros, Ming Tsao, Laila Voss, Michael Wilson, and Natalie Zimmerman. • Filmed on location at Golden Gate National Park, California while in residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts. • Costumes by A.M. Richard and Ginelle Hustrulid. • Soundtrack composed by Knocker, arranged by Knocker and Jillian Mcdonald.

RedRum

high definition video • 7:44 minutes • 2010

Its title a reference to The Shining where a boy predicts "redrum" (murder) before a hotel elevator bursts with blood and all hell breaks loose, this video has a haunted horror theme. The scenes take us through a cavernous home where blood - a predominant prop in horror films - drips from faucets, runs down mirrors, and pools on stairs. This blood appears disembodied until the camera slowly reveals it's haunted source, visiting neighbouring houses that also drip with blood, suggesting a murderous streak. RedRum, filmed on location in Buffalo, NY in late 2009, features local teenagers, Buffalo homes, and The Buffalo Soundpainting Ensemble.

Created in residence at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Exhibited in solo show at Hallwalls.

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Alone Together in the Dark

high definition video installation • 2009

Two videos projected on opposite walls feature zombies and vampires staging a dramatic Western-style showdown at dawn in the desert. Surrounding the videos are floor-to-ceiling photographic murals that wrap the gallery in local desert imagery: cacti, mountain, rugged terrain, contemporary ghost towns, and graveyards. Freestanding photographic cacti rattle dryly via tiny speakers.

This work was created in residence at ASU Art Museum with a cast of locals in Tempe, Arizona, including 50 actors, 4 videographers, 1 documentary photographer, 10 make-up artists, and 1 sound designer.
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Apocalypse Zombie

high definition video • 5:44 minutes (loop) • 2009

A re-imagined final scene from the 1985 New Zealand film "Quiet Earth". A woman on the beach is zombified by an unseen force that also causes beautiful atmospheric meltdown, over and over again.

This work was created in residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts in California

Featured in a solo show at Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco.

Apparition

video • 1:34 minutes • 2009

Footage recorded in 1997 but never used until now features an apparition: a haunted chandelier hanging in the middle of the street.

Featured in a solo show at The Bronx River Arts Center in New York.

Staring Contest with Brad Pitt

video • 1:30 minutes (loop) • 2008

I insert my image digitally into a scene from Meet Joe Black, caught in a endless staring contest with actor Brad Pitt which no one wins and no one loses.

Featured in a solo show at Third Avenue Gallery in Vancouver, and in a group show at Cambridge Galleries, Canada.

The Sparkling

installation: video projector, custom software, sensor, Mac mini, speakers • 2008

Featured in solo shows at ThreeWalls in Chicago and The Bronx River Art Center. Also shown at Plugged In, a group new media show in Hudson, NY

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TV = Evil

video • 2008

A TV hypnotizes and absorbs a beautiful girl and spits out her evil twin, a watery corpse. (Footage from Poltergeist and The Ring)

Featured in solo show at ThreeWalls in Chicago.

Superfan

video • 2008

Superfan features the artist, trespassing digitally into scenes from Hollywood films. She rides in vehicles with costars Billy Bob Thornton and Donald Sutherland, but despite their attempts at conversation, the trio of male leads cannot shake her concentration on the game, that is, the final minutes of a Superbowl game radio broadcast.

Commissioned by Art Engine (Canada) and featured in Superfan exhibition with Art Engine in Ottawa. Featured in solo show at Third Avenue Gallery in Vancouver, and in a group show at Cambridge Galleries, Canada.

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The Girl Who Spoke With Animals

video in progress...

Vampire Hunt

2-channel video • 2007

Vampire Hunting is a two-channel video in which projections on two opposing walls position the viewer in the center of a visual loop, wherein a vampire endlessly pursues her prey. On screen, I “play” both roles.

Featured in solo shows at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York, Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco, and 1708 Gallery in Virginia.
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Everyone Will Suffer

animation • 2007

"Death is a Shortcut, Evil has found a new home..." Familiar taglines from popular 1970s onward horror films form a spoken warning, the subject ever evasive. Sundown creeps slowly across a country setting, rendered as an 8-bit animation reminiscent of early computer graphics and video games.

Featured in solo show at ThreeWalls in Chicago, and in B I T M A P: As Good as New at vertexList Gallery in Brooklyn.
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The Screaming

video • 11 minutes • 2007

I trespass digitally into existing horror films scenes. Uttering a scream on cue with the startling action, but rather than screaming in helpless horror, I scream to scare the monsters away, or even destroy them. (pictured - screaming in Hallowe'en)

Featured in solo shows at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York, 1708 Gallery in Virginia, La Sala Naranja in Spain, and Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY. Also featured in a 2-person show at Paved Media Arts in Saskatoon, and group shows at The Western Front in Vancouver and The Montehermoso Museum in Vitoria Spain.
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The Bloom of the Triffid

animation • 2006

The Bloom of the Triffid is an animation. I tracked the bloom of Brookyn's corpse flower during August 2006 via The Brooklyn Botanical Garden's webcam. I compiled still images from the webcam into a stop motion animation and digitally altered it to frame the strange bloom in a spotlight. The bloom made national deadlines as the first of it's kind to bloom in New York since 1939. Visiting it in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens I was struck by it's diva quality, all alone in the center of a greenhouse with hordes of fans, cameras snapping, and news correspondents. Brooklyn's borough president Marty Markowitz proclaimed August 10th "Baby the Corpse Flower Bloom Day". A triffid is a fictional carnivourous plant.

Featured in a group show at Long Island University Gallery

Zombie Loop

2-channel video • 2006

Zombie Loop is a two-channel video in which projections on two opposing walls position the viewer in the center of a visual loop, wherein a gruesome zombie endlessly pursues a running survivor. On screen, I “play” both zombie and survivor.

Featured in solo shows at ArtMoving Projects Gallery in Brooklyn, and at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis.
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Imagine the Electricity When we Meet. Portrait of Billy Bob, Caressed Slowly

8-bit animation on LED screen • 2005 • 3 minutes

Commissioned for Bit Editions, vertexList Gallery, Brooklyn
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Portraits of Billy Bob as Paint By Numbers 1

drawing and interactive video projection on wall • dimensions variable

Projected colours fill in one-by-one to reveal the portrait of Billy Bob, lovingly rendered.

Chester and Poncho

2-channel DVD • 2005 • 20 seconds loop • colour

Chester and Poncho are chihuahuas that do everything together, and look roughly the same. Frequently they are taken for twins though they are quite unalike in mannerism and personality.

Featured in Bring in the Clones, at vertexList Gallery in Brooklyn, and Animal Series at MMOCA in Madison, WI

Billy Bob Got Plastic Surgery

DVD • 2004 • 30 seconds

site-specific tv commercial for The Drake Hotel installation, 2004

Drum Solo for Billy Bob

DVD • Aug 4, 2004 (Billy Bob's 49th Birthday) • 3 minutes • colour/sound

I drummed morse code for "I Love You Billy Bob" on my skin with the drumstick Billy Bob handed me from the stage of his concert tour, Sept 5, 2003

part of a solo exhibition at the Drake Hotel (for Images Festival and TPW Gallery) in Toronto, and The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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Billy Bob Tattoo

drawing on my knee, every day in June.

DVD • 20 minutes, looped • 2004

exhibited in group show, 'Infinite Fill' at Foxy Productions Gallery, NYC. Part of a solo exhibition at the Drake Hotel (for Images Festival and TPW Gallery) in Toronto, and The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. visit MeAndBillyBob.com for more info and video excerpt

Screen Kiss

DVD and website 2005.

detail from Screen Kiss. Video shown at Scope Hamptons - curated by Trong Nguyen and Lee Wells. Transmedia 29:59 - Year Zero One's public video billboard project in Toronto. Group exhibitions at SixtySeven Gallery in NYC, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Bosto Center for the Arts, The Apartment in Istanbul, The Arts Center in St Petersburg FL, Sagamore Hotel in Miami. Solo exhibition at Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC. Part of a solo project at The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

• with support from Soil Digital Media in Regina
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Me and Billy Bob

limited edition DVD • 7 minutes • 2003

exhibited in solo shows at Video Pool in Winnipeg; The Drake Hotel (solo show for Images Festival and TPW Gallery) in Toronto 2004; Edge Media in St John's Newfoundland in 2004; Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, NYC in 2006; and San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in 2007. Group exhibitions at La Centre d'Art Contemporain in Normandy France; Latitude 53 Gallery in Edmonton; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Thomas Erben Gallery in New York; Covivant Gallery in Tampa; The Arizona State University Gallery in Tempe; Videominuto Pop TV in Firenze, Italy. solo show at Edge Intermedia @ Eastern Edge Gallery in St John’s: Desert – the 6th Manifestation of Electronic Art in Montreal; Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia; Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg Germany, Rodman Hall at Brock University in St. Catherine's Ontario, and Western Michigan University Gallery in Kalamazoo.

• with support from The Canada Council on the Arts, Pace University, and NYSCA
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Beavers for Cherries

2-channel video installation • 9 minute loop • 2004

produced in residence at DAIMON New Media Centre, Québec

• with support from The Canada Council on the Arts and Pace University

exhibited in 'Americas' exhibition at Galerie Galou inBrooklyn, and at Klein Gallery of The Science Center in Philadelphia.

Live in Infamy

limited edition DVD • 15 seconds • 2002

exhibited at Transmedia 2002: 15 seconds of Fame for Year Zero One's Public Video Billboard in Toronto; and in the Toronto International Art Fair (Power Plant Booth, curated by Paul Butler)

American Sandwich

video • 3 minutes • original sound by Michael Stecky

exhibited in Insert at Cuchifritos Gallery, NY; Second Site at Hunter College Times Square Gallery; Art in General in New York; and in Truck Food, curated for moving trucks in Chelsea, NY by Alison Meehan

Paper Advantage

DVD • 4 minutes • 2002

exhibited in Second Site at Hunter College Times Square Gallery; and Straylight online in Dublin

Filled With Wonder

DVD • 3 minutes • original sound by Michael Stecky

exhibited at The Knitting Factory in New York

In <328> Other Words

video • 3 minutes • 2001

exhibited at No Live Girls - Peepshow 28 in peepbooths in San Francisco and Seattle, and at Lance Fung Gallery New York

Chocolate Suit

video • 7 minutes

exhibited in L'Amour Horreur at Galerie La Centrale in Montréal; and in Unpacked curated by Alisoun Meehan for meat lockers in Chelsea, New York

Meryl and Me

video • 3 minutes • 2001

exhibited at Momenta Gallery in New York; Straylight online in Dublin; Whitebox Gallery and Art in General in New York; the 1st Biennial of Video Art in Tel Aviv; Antitube at Meduse in Quebec City; and at The Darklight Film Festival in Dublin

Ecstasy

installation • DVD players, monitors in vertical mode, tables

exhibited in American Sandwich exhibition, curated by Peter Dudek at Star 67 Gallery in Brooklyn

Cheezies

video

exhibited in Truck Food, curated for moving trucks in Chelsea, NY by Alison Meehan