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A Statement
My artwork is socially engaged, event-based, and often concentrates on developing experimental processes for generating video, film, and photographs. A commitment to a politics of resistance and disruption drives my work; as does a deep need to play – with other people, with ordinary materials, with time, and with documentation devices. Performance is often at the center of my investigations; how we perform and present ourselves throughout our daily lives is one of my main preoccupations. My projects are united by their focus on sociality, and by their basis in process and indeterminacy. Guy Debord’s writing continues to influence my work, and the creation of situations is at the core of my practice. These situations range from attempts to capture my own private, personal moments, to re-enactments of little known historical events, to large- scale public events that bring people together.
I witness, experience, and record these situations and events. This is where the thrill and the risk lie – I do not know what will happen or how the project will turn out. How to represent these events is the final challenge. The results from my investigations take the form of digital videos, multi-channel video installations, experimental documentaries, and live events that exist in their aftermath as photographs with textual description. My background in film studies, an area of concentration while I was an undergraduate, anchors my work in cinema history. The decisions I make while processing the event documentation are guided by my desire to push the boundaries of the factual and fictional, real time and dramatic time, immediate and mediated.
A Short Bio
Born and raised on the banks of the Hudson River, Julie Perini is a media artist, writer, educator, and occasional curator who recently moved from Buffalo, NY to Portland, OR. This year, she is a 2007 fellow in Cross-Disciplinary/Performative Work from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Julie’s artwork in video, film, installation, mail, and performance has been exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of theaters, galleries, clubs, sidewalks, warehouses, hotels, and living rooms. She works with strangers, friends, and other artists, as well as alone. She uses what is available in her everyday life, particularly time, space, people, gestures, words, gifts, ideas, games, uncertainties, contingencies, an assortment of tasks, and various machines.
She is interested in creating alternative networks for the production and distribution of art and music. In addition to coordinating art and community events, she works with community media art centers, teaching low-cost video workshops that empower people to create their own media. She has taught college courses and workshops on film history, video and digital media production, and performance art. She currently teaches in the Art Department at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR. Julie’s education includes an M.F.A. from the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo (2006) and a B.S. in Communication from Cornell University (2000). |