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Sunday, November 19
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30pm and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
From the woman in the headache commercial, to the bride who never
takes her dress off, from eva the mistress, to suzy the runaway,
and the systems designer for a recently computerized Hell...come
watch some of the larger than life characters in ardele lister’s
works tell their stories on monkeytown’s 4 screens...
BIO:
Ardele Lister has been making films and videotapes since the early
70s when she co-founded ReelFeelings, a women's media collective,
in Vancouver, Canada.
When her first film, So Where's My Prince Already? ('76),
was selected for the International Festival of Women's Films,,
Ardele relocated to New York City, where she has since lived and
worked.
Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY),
the Beaubourg Centre (Paris), the Kunsthalle (Berlin), and the
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)- to name a few. Lister founded
The Independent, the monthly publication for independent video
and filmmakers (still published by the Foundation for Independent
Video and Film), and has written on media and art for Afterimage,
Felix, Criteria and other publications.
The characters in many of Lister’s works, particularly the
early films (So Where’s My Prince Already, and Split) ask
us to reconsider what on the surface appears to be ordinary people
struggling to make sense of their lives, as they are lived and
mythologized. Hell, Behold the Promised Land and Conditional Love
(See Under Nationalism-Canada) look at how media contributes to
our beliefs, hopes, disappointments and most of all, our identities.
Whether the subject matter is serious or playful, personal or
political, Lister creates work full of humo(u)r and pathos which
reflects and hono(u)rs the complexities of people's daily lives.
One of the first artists to work with digital technologies, Lister’s
art (notably Hell, 1984) led to her work on avant-garde television
projects such as PeeWee's Playhouse (CBS). For this innovative
television show Lister produced all the Connect the Dots segments,
in which live-action Pee Wee jumped into the computer generated
Magic Screen, to be digitally layered and animated.
Lister is an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Dept., Mason
Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, teaching media production
and critical studies.
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