Wigged Productions: Globalization

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APRIL - MAY 2001
	Stanza's The Central City Central City is a visual collage reflecting on the themes within our urban consciousness. Forms are related to cellular structures of nature. This is contrasted with man made structures, as well as patterns and forms of urban design. The project is about the relationship to the audio visual world of the city and its structure. 2001. England.
	Albena Mihaylova's Diverse Time. Mihaylova states, "Between July 1996 and January 1997, I travelled passing through southeast Bulgaria and Switzerland. I made video records of familiar and foreign places. Juxtaposing this journey material, I present different horizontal and vertical points to show different planes of human relationships without direct human presence. 1997. Switzerland.
	Francesca N. Penzani's Monte Cavlera. A feather, a bench, some characters. Time passing by...observing the moment, holding onto it, re-living it, freezing it. A wish for the power to change the law of gravity and of impermanence. The camera becomes a mirror into which the characters gaze, in hope of controlling the events that unfold around them. Dedicated to my father. 2000. United States.
	Xtine Burrough's movingtexts. Movingtexts.net is a site strictly dedicated to concrete poetry. On the site, the words included in each poem are given multiple meanings as they morph from one to another. Meanwhile, the weight of the groupings of words is distributed through this motion. 2000. United States.
	Elise Kermani's mem. Mem is an excerpt from The HESTIA Project, a multimedia poem exploring the relationship between the origins of the alphabet and the greek goddess Hestia. Mem is a meditation on the origins of the letter "M" or "mem: meaning "water" in the Phonecian language. Hestia is the goddess of fire and the opposite element to water. In this poem, I play with the sound of the English word "water" as it sounds very much like father, vater and wasser (in German) and then I move on to the words mater, matter, muter, mutter, mother. The actual letter M morphs out of the patterns of the water, as if Hestia is performing a miracle of creating water where there was none before. 2001. United States.
	Gary Lee Nelson & Christine Gorbach's Hierarchy. The title and impetus for this piece come from Gorbach's "Hierarchy," a matrix of sixteen small paintings selected and cut from a much larger canvas. Gorbach added a short poem with verbal images suggested by the paintings and by the processes she used to make them. Gorbach's reading of her poem along with digital copies of her paintings provide the source material for Nelson's music. Gorbach joins her printed words with her paintings to shape the moving images. 2000. United States.
	John Villec's Dialectics (mondrian). The logic and narrative arc of Dialectics organically grew through extensive discussions, and viewing of Mondrians' work with collaborator Charles Aitken. The sound program is an electronic transformation of a small number of acoustic sound events. Both sound and visual elements are put into motion by using contemporary computer processes and the aesthetic tradition of Musique Concrete. 1999. United States.
	Miklos Legrady 's artcrimes. A hip-hop landscape, a comic-book depiction of art, life and the net. Project 1 leads to papers which analyze the art world, its powers, weaknesses, structure, patronage, networking, and the behavior expected of artists in contemporary society. These papers are also virtually presented as monumental paintings on gallery walls. Project 2 leads to a series of posters made at the Collective Unconscious in N.Y. in 1995. The posters were placed on walls and lamposts near museums and galleries in SOHO. 2000. Canada.