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Wendy Clarke: Love Tapes Exhibition, Workshop, "One on One" Screening, Record a Love Tape
"If you could have every person on the planet make a Love Tape, then you’d really know what it’s like to be human."
—Wendy Clarke
LOVE TAPES EXHIBITION, MAY 13-16, 12-5 PM, Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108, UCSC
Given her first video equipment in 1972 by her mother, filmmaker and video artist Shirley Clarke, artist Wendy Clarke recorded herself and made video diary entries which oftentimes centered on themes of love. Expanding her practice to others, Clarke first asked members of her community, and then the public, their feelings about love—and the video project Love Tapes was born.
WORKSHOP WITH WENDY CLARKE, MAY 14, 3:30pm-6:30pm; DARC/Gard Lab Room 104
Join artist-in-residence Wendy Clarke for a workshop discussing her career, practice, and process. Workshop participants will learn how to facilitate and create new Love Tapes for Wendy's Endless Love Tapes project.
"ONE ON ONE" SCREENING, FOLLOWED BY CONVERSATION WITH WENDY CLARKE, MAY 15, 7-10pm, Communications Bldg., Studio C, Room 150, UCSC
The screening features two selected video exchanges from the "One on One" project, followed by a conversation with artist-in-residence Wendy Clarke.
Arnold and Ahneva (47 min., 1991), featuring Arnold and Ahneva, deeply connects the pair through discussion of Black brother and sisterhood. The two find comfort in sharing their own creative individualities, endeavors, and dreams. Their discussion and newly formed relationship poignantly touches upon the impact of mass incarceration within the Black community.
Ken and Louise (79 min., 1994) encompasses a shared passion for music and pure emotional vulnerability that creates an incredibly intimate relationship between these two strangers throughout the project's evolution. Their connection is palpable, leaving the viewer envisioning a possible real life encounter between the two outside of the realm of this project.
"One on One" is a series of video dialogues between the inmates at California Institution for Men in Chino, California, the members of the Church in Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California, and a group of Crenshaw residents in Los Angeles, California. "One on One" was produced while Wendy Clarke was the artist-in-residence at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California. The series uses the medium of video as a means to form relationships between people who would otherwise never get a chance to communicate with each other. Clarke held a video workshop where inmates from the prison made videotapes introducing themselves to strangers on the outside. The collaborators from Crenshaw and the Church in Ocean Park then created their own video responses. Throughout 1992, fifteen pairs of people communicated via this inside/outside process. The inmates and the outside contributors were to keep their dialogue only to video, never in person or through letters, in hopes of creating a pure video experience for the strangers to exchange.
RECORD A LOVE TAPE WITH WENDY CLARK, MAY 15-16, 1-5pm, Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), Room 151
Participate in Wendy Clarke's Endless Love Tapes project by recording your own Love Tape. If you choose to keep your recording, your Love Tape will become part of the Endless Love Tapes archive.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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