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The Art & Law Residency > Exhibition and Symposium
Maccarone > 630 Greenwich Street > New York, NY 10014

Exhibition Dates:  August 16- August 27
Gallery Hours:  Monday-Friday 11 am-6 pm
Artists: > Eric Doeringer > Alicia Grullón > Charles Gute > Nate Harrison > Bettina Johae > Miguel Luciano > Benjamin Tiven > Angie Waller > > Admission is Free.

Information about my work that is included:
http://angiewaller.com/books/originality-cases-and-materials/
http://angiewaller.com/video/beauty-for-ashes-2/

Workstation collage for standee
8′ x 4′ x 2′

• description: These free-standing cutouts represent my studio. The collages are a combination of images from my wok area and photos collected online from computer enthusiasts showing off their gear.

installation view

installation view

video still

video still

• description: Interactive video Parking Lot is a 30 minute unedited video take of a winding journey through a parking lot in Culver City, California. The video’s playback is controlled by a small dial placed near the monitor in a console setup. The speed of the video playback is controlled by how rapidly the viewer turns the stereo dial. As the video is transformed into a series of still sequences, the viewer is compelled to study all of the possible photographic compositions in the parking lot while they experience nausea caused by the velocity and direction of the camera being in contrast to their clock-wise arm motions. The end result is a representation of navigating the parking lot that exaggerates the dizziness and disorientation experienced in the actual environment.

digital c-print

hairring
video loop

test4c

• enclosure: http://couchprojects.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/test4c.mov 862165 video/quicktime, http://couchprojects.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/hairring.mov 2115661 video/quicktime
• description: 3-D renderings that mix simple gemoetric forms with realistic hair folicles. Installation consists of lightboxes and looping animations of the forms emulating breath.

video still

• description: Installation: HDV video projection, stereo sound
  Running time: 45 minutes

  Infinite Depot is a unique document of a space that exists in some form all over the globe. The video’s format is a 45-minute single shot HD video that takes the viewer through a Home Depot store in a fluid dream-like epic, a cinematic technique directly inspired by Aleksandr Sokurov’s “Russian Ark.” The two main characters meander through the cavernous aisles of a Home Depot store in Secaucus, New Jersey, transcending the mundane big-box environment as they slowly investigate and interact with everything but each other. In the background, shoppers zoom by at relative lightning speed, and the store displays become readymade sets. The soundtrack is a composition of recordings sampled from the store mixed to reflect the store’s multi-faceted spaces: the hugeness of some aisles and the intimacy of the showroom displays. The minimal plot culminates in an improvised dance performance by the main character. The dancer’s overstated movements fill the lighting aisles, yet go unnoticed by the Sunday morning shoppers.

View from entry, video monitor with video of Beijing model making factory and foot massage demonstrations

• description: One-day installation at ESL Projects in Los Angeles

  Using real estate marketing materials collected in Beijing, Fatty Duck transformed the droll, contemporary practice of high-end real estate development into a romantic, deconstructed homage to mid-century Communist dramas of urban progress.

  The small storefront was filled with a variety of images and videos. The video in the front of the store faded between scenes from an architecture model-making factory and a taxi ride on the chaotic streets of Beijing. Displayed on the interior wall, enlarged Xeroxes of the model-making factory’s models in-progress provided a metaphorical representation of the high velocity of new building developments. The other elements of the exhibition documented model home interiors that promote specific westernized lifestyles ranging from SoHo city-dweller to Long Island suburbanite. An architectural fly-through was projected on the back wall. The original source was collected from a development called "Home of Tycoons." This served as the title for the catalogue I created to supplement the exhibition.