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video installation project, 2004-07
fifteen short sequential silent videos
26 min 22 sec total length
created in collaboration with Alanna Simone
locations: Auschwitz, Berlin, San Francisco and Jackson Hole, Wyoming
My grandfather died in a concentration camp. My mother and grandmother were hauled
out of Poland in cattle cars to a labor camp in Germany, after which they became
refugees. This is a family trauma and it hung like a cloud. When I myself had a
daughter, I saw the effect of history upon her. Together we made The Grandfathers
as a way of unpacking the issues in the constellation that formed around this story -
issues of identity, place, projection, recollection.
supplemental mixed-media prints
 I: The Grandfathers On Vimeo. II: I Am A Lone Wolf... On Vimeo. III: My Grandfather Is A Place On Vimeo. IV: In The Background And Out Of My Mouth Auschwitz On Vimeo. V: I Find My Face Here On Vimeo. VI: I Am A Buffalo/ Buffalo Is Walking On This Ground (Mother) On Vimeo. VII: I Am This Land On Vimeo. VIII: In My Grip I Hold The Stone/ It Is My Heart Swallowed On Vimeo. IX: I Honor Your Terrible Fate On Vimeo. X: The Diamond Mountian Is Made Of Ashes On Vimeo. XI: The Ground/ The Ground Is Hot/ Holy Ground On Vimeo. XII: I Don't Know What I Am/ I Am Not What I Seem/ I Am Not Alone In This On Vimeo. XIII: The Background Comes Forward On Vimeo. XIV: My Heart Is A Stone/ I Will Offer It On Vimeo. XV: I Take Myself Seriously... On Vimeo.  |
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