Zen Cohen
Walker Fisher
Travis Hough
Bio:
Zen Cohen makes her work using video, digital imaging, installation and performance. She received her MFA in Art Studio at the University of California at Davis and BFA in Media Art from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Zen's work has been exhibited throughout the San Francisco Bay Area at the deYoung Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, SOMarts, The Lab, The Montalvo Center, and nationally at ARTSpace New Haven in CT, Vanity Projects in NY, Public Space One in Iowa City, and internationally at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City and Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands. Her photographs have been published in Hyperallergic, Art Practical, Routledge and Southern Illinois University Press. She is the founder and curator of Open Air Media Festival in Iowa City and Assistant Professor of Media Art and Film Studies at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
X_spectre (2021, Video, 4:00)
Description of work (500 words maximum)
The source for this project began with a performer embodying an X-shaped costume in an attempt to create a non-human form. Their appearance was mediated using several video processes, enabling the form to become chromosomal. When projected, this work functions as a video apparition in the process of becoming.
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Credits:
Video: Zen Cohen
Performer: Walker Fisher
Sound: Travis Hough/Ghost of Lighting