Tracey Moffatt
dal 5/2/2001 al 6/2/2001
Segnalato da
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.
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.