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EgressHeidi Kumao2019-06-09T00:44:43-04:00
Detail from video installation: projection on stack of books and wall.
Nail polish inspection outside university gates.
Leaving the living room. Climbing to the roof.
"Egress" explores how women living under an authoritarian regime use fiction, books, and the printed page to subvert their restrictive environment. The women find ways to maintain a veneer of compliance with social edicts while transcending the government's manufactured illusion, eventually creating their own reality. Inspired by Azar Nafisi's memoir, "Reading Lolita in Tehran."
The piece consists of a video projection onto a tall stack of books and the wall behind it. The piece runs as a continuous video loop that is 6:32 min. and has an accompanying detailed sound track. Animated segments, live action video and collaged photos all fuse together to create the peculiar cityscape in which events unfold.
Mixed media: books, HD video projector, media player w/HD movie file, speakers, 84 x 140 x 192 inches. Video plays loop that is 6:32 min.
~DLECTRICITY: Nuit Blanche Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, 2014
~Currents 2014: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, New Mexico
~Screengrab International Media Arts Award Exhibition, Queensland, Australia, 2015
~Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea, 2015
~Ceres Gallery, New York City, 2014
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Heidi Kumao creates video, machine art, and installations to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, her work demonstrates how small gestures, even the most private and poetic, can become political acts. Her work has been exhibited at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, San Jose Museum of Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires and numerous other venues worldwide. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital grant and others. She is a Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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