Clockwork
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, 2006
Dallas Video Festival, 2006
Headland Center for the Arts, 2007
Dallas Video Festival, 2006
Headland Center for the Arts, 2007
Clockwork is a series of four short multi-channel video works, each shot in a location where physical touch between individuals is routine, yet highly charged: a dentist's office, a hair salon, a massage therapist's studio, and a teenage boys' slumber party. For each piece, multiple cameras are used to record a half-second of video every thirty seconds over a 16-hour period. The resulting works restructure the long arc of these intimate relations, revealing otherwise invisible habits of work and play.
- Drill (2-channel) Over the course of a long workday, a dentist shuttles back and forth between patients. Bursts of classical music compete with the sounds of drilling, suction, and light banter. Running Time: 5:13
- Shampoo (2-channel) Around a salon chair, two hair-washing sinks, and before a maze of mirrors, a stylist attends to her many clients. Running Time: 5:00
- Massage (2-channel) A masseuse works on her five clients. Between massages she has a few meals, talks on the phone, stretches, and prepares for the next client; the time she spends on others frames the time she takes for herself. Running Time: 5:03
- Birthday (4-channel) At a slumber party seven boys stare into computers and game consoles, wrestle, play ping-pong, and eat birthday cake. Running Time: 5:08
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