Cowgirl & Future Stories
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Video projection with sound | 1997-98 | 3:46 loop
Cowgirl and Future Stories was created by combining images of performative gestures with appropriated footage of the Martian landscape captured by NASA’s Voyager mission. In this work, the artist personifies a retro-futurist cowgirl, a character extrapolated from stories of stereotypical frontier women and comic-book heroines, whose lasso performance and plastic chaps trigger a series of events. This space cowgirl is also defined by the visual landscape she travels across, a 3D animation of Mars shuttling between deep space and desert—staples of the Western genre. The video projection plays on myths of frontier spaces and their outlaw characters who have disavowed the shackles of logic and rationality to embrace play and liberation.
Credits
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Performer:
Lynne Marsh -
Still camera:
Bruno Martel -
Sound design:
Jeremy Cox -
Editing:
John Mark Seck -
Image source:
NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory -
Postproduction support :
Saw Video -
Funding:
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
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Landscape Immersion: Lynne Marsh’s Performative Spaces
Author: Johanne Slone
Art Papers, 2006
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2000
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1998
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1998
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Hackeschehofe Cinema, Berlin; Corso Cinema, Stuttgart
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2003
New Territories International Festival of Live Art
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