Point No Point

Jennifer Campbell
In the Video Lounge
Friday, July 9 - Sunday, August 1, 2010

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Set against the iconic landscape of the Pacific Northwest, Point No Point documents performances staged specifically for the camera that offer novel contexts for the mind and body. This set of videos continues to explore Jennifer Campbell's subversion of the body through absurd and explicitly physical actions. These projected videos portray the artist’s body emulating, inciting or re-imagining different beacons, signals, and forces of nature. In these works a sense of awe for the Sublime can come as both homage and parody. Whether it’s trudging through the ocean to become a human lighthouse, triggering Mt. Rainier to erupt or spouting water from a head, the body becomes a medium for experimentation often employing a tragic humor akin to that of commedia dell’arte grotesque or physical theater. Similar to the intrigue and frustration of watching a cat chase its tail, these performances point, or don’t point, to the absurd dualities that exist in our actions and reactions.