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5/2/2001

Tracey Moffatt

Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

Lip is an experimental video by Tracey Moffatt in collaboration with Gary Hillberg. Hillberg’s editing of clips of Hollywood films depicts talented black women actresses playing the role of the maid. Lip is both serious and comic to watch. "It’s okay to laugh," says Moffatt. In choosing these particular segments where the maids are putting their women bosses in their place we are trying to restore a feeling of power to them and to break away from the "black woman actress as victim of Hollywood’ idea.


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Lip is an experimental video by Tracey Moffatt in collaboration with Gary Hillberg. Hillberg’s editing of clips of Hollywood films depicts talented black women actresses playing the role of the maid. Lip is both serious and comic to watch. "It’s okay to laugh," says Moffatt. In choosing these particular segments where the maids are putting their women bosses in their place we are trying to restore a feeling of power to them and to break away from the "black woman actress as victim of Hollywood’ idea.

Gary and I wanted to say that these women, who sometimes play the subservient roles of maids, were often glorious scene stealers in the true Hollywood sense. Regardless of the role, one could never not notice them. We want to pay homage to them; Lip is our gesture of R.E.S.P.E.C.T."

Tracey Moffatt is arguably Australia’s most successful artist internationally. Of Aboriginal origins, she has had over 30 solo exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. and is regularly curated into major group shows, including the 1997 Venice Biennale, the 1992/93 and 1996 Sydney Biennales, Prospect ’96, and the 1996 and 1998 Sao Paulo Biennales. Her films have been screened at Cannes, and hundreds of articles and several books have been written about her work. Her major photo series, up in the Sky (1997) was commissioned by the Dia Center for the Arts, New York and was subsequently shown throughout the world to high acclaim. Tracey Moffatt lives and works in Sydney and New York.

The screening and panel discussion is on the occasion of Black History Month.

This will be the first viewing of LIP in the US. LIP is Distributed by Women Make Movies.

Florence Lynch Gallery, 147 West 29th Street, 3rd Floor, New York

February 6, 6:30 p.m.

Introductory remarks by Tracey Moffatt

The screening is followed by a Panel discussion at 7:00 p.m.

Moderator: JEOFFREY YOUNG, Editor of The Figures, Visiting critic Yale Graduate School, Spring 2000. His most recent book of poetry is Cerulean Embankments (with Drawings by Carrol Dunham).

Panelists: QUEEN ESTHER , Actress/singer, theater performances at the Tribeca Playhouse, The Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub, Aaron Davis Hall among others; original member of the first national tour of RENT. HOWARD MCCALEBB, Artist, professor of art, Parsons & New Jersey City University. ROBERT C. MORGAN, writer, critic, curator, artist; author of The End of the Art World, (Allworth Press, 1998), and Gary Hill, (John Hopkins University Press, 2000). BARBARA LONDON, Curator, Film and Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York. TAUR ORANGE, Director, Educational Opportunity Programs, Fashion Institute of Technology. CARL POPE, B.A. Cinema and Photography, M.F.A. Photography, artist, Professor of Photography at State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2000 Whitney Biennial participant.

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