Helen Mirra Videoworks: Volume 1
Helen Mirra
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Chicago Art, Family, Gender, Performance, Videoworks
In the four videos on this compilation, Helen Mirra utilizes performance, repetition, and the recitation of song to evoke the natural world, the sea, and landscape. Social conventions are questioned, along with our closest relationships and the development of the self.
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The image comes up suddenly and then continues unwavering: a young person (Mirra) dressed in a black watchcap and pea coat stands at the edge of a large body of water and sings a sea shanty,…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Gender, Performance
"'I am nice. I... am nice. I am... nice," repeats the narrator, in this personal and highly poetic exploration of the construction of self. Mirra favors repetition as the device for reconstructing…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Chicago Art, Performance
Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan (translated as “sleeping den”), this montage is the result of a script that reconfigures over two hundred lines of English subtitles, lifted from films…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Language, Performance
Made from silent black and white tube camera footage of the artist taken by her father in the early 70s, this series of loops—through the examination of particular moments and gestures— is evocative…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Family, Performance