Upcoming October 2010:
Supertasking

A video installation in progress for Participant, Inc., NYC

Laurie Weeks and Frances Sorensen in Gone - video still

original Gone video website


Didi Dunphy as Phyllis Dobson in Coal Miner's Granddaughter - video still
Leslie Singer as Jane Dobson in Coal Miner's Granddaughter - video still
Glen Helfand as Jon Dobson in Coal Miner's Granddaughter - video still
Leslie Singer as Jane Dobson in Coal Miner's Granddaughter - video still

Coal Miner's
Granddaughter >

Anthology Books, Dublin, Ireland
Anthology Books, Dublin
an independent bookstore in Temple Bar from 2004-2007.
Our Anthology Books website archived here >>

 


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On the subway platform, waiting for the train, metrocard safely stashed in pocket...

Missed your train? Catch one here! Making videos makes waiting for the No. 2 or 3 train at Times Square a bit more fun. The second video is from the Nevins Street Station, Brooklyn. The third one is from the Q Train on its way back to Brooklyn over the Manhattan Bridge and East River. Play videos simultaneously to get that authentic New York subway sensation.

The subway videos are part of a project called Quotidian New York-Click to Enlarge, a camera trek through everyday New York, and including a few side trips to Baltimore, Italy, Switzerland, and enroute to/from New Haven, Connecticut (Metro-North Train, Harlem Line, that is).

I started the blog in 2007, when I landed back in Brooklyn after six years in Dublin, Ireland, and began to take pictures and movies with my Coolpix camera whilst looking for (mostly non-existent) jobs.

Find it at <http://fourlegsgood.blogspot.com>

The blogsite is an online studio for posting, tracking, logging and distributing photographic records of my travels through New York and other places.

The blog is a portable New York - a window onto an iconic city, from the perspective of the mobile camera-ready inhabitant, and available to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Check it out:
the complete and ongoing project, Quotidian New York-Click to Enlarge, is at http://fourlegsgood.blogspot.com/.

More everyday videos at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X0KpKi9H3g


Order more videos [video page] and video stills from the Video Data Bank:
http://www.vdb.org

Contact me:
cecilia.dougherty@gmail.com

ABOUT

list of videos

Supertasking, in progress, installation
heavy, i rose, 2008, 10:03
Lynne, 2004, 6.00
Kevin and Cedar, 2002, 8:30
Gone, 2001, 36:42, installation
Eileen, 2000, 10:20
Laurie, 1998, 11:02
Leslie, 1998, 11:04
Untitled (Crash), 1997 installation, collaboration with Taylor Davis
The dream and the waking, 1997, 15:10
My Failure to Assimilate, 1995, 20:00
I’m Leaving Home Without You (You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)), 1994, installation
Joe-Joe, 1993, 52:00, collaboration with Leslie Singer
In flux, 1993, 50:00, collaboration with Leslie Singer
The Drama of the Gifted Child, 1992, 5:30
Meet Me in Saint Louis, Fuck Me in Kansas City, 1992, collaboration with Leslie Singer
Coal Miner’s Granddaughter, 1991, 80:00
Hello World, Goodbye San Francisco, 1991, 35:00, collaboration with Leslie Singer
The Temptation of Jane, 1990, 50:00, collaboration with Leslie Singer
The Passion of Jane, 1990, 11:00
Grapefruit, 1989, 39:10
Kathy, 1988, 12:00
Claudia, 1987, 7:50
Coat of Arms II, 1987, 8:00
Coat of Arms I, 1987, 16:00, slow scan remote video capture
76 Trombones, 1987, 3:30
Fuck You Purdue, 1987, 12:00
Birdland, 1986, 16:00
Sick, 1986, 5:30,
Gay Tape: Butch and Femme, 1985, 26:00

videography - clips

curriculum vitae

bio

Cecilia Dougherty is an artist and writer who works in video, photography, and web applications.

Areas of interest include women's rights, feminist theory, woman's place in the new global (dis)order, queer identities and queer, psychology and sexualities, everyday life, and new media.

Has had numerous shows, screenings and retrospectives. Work has been written about and cited in books including "Lesbian Art in America" by Harmony Hammond, "Chick Flicks" by B. Ruby Rich, and "Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories" by Elizabeth Freeman     (forthcoming 2010).

Additional book and journal citations include "Contemporary Quilt Art" by Kate Lenkowsky, Art in America, The Village Voice, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Artweek, Film Comment and High Performance magazine among others.

Has published essays, reviews, artist's pages, poetry and fiction in anthologies and journals including "A History of the Avant Garde Moving Image in the San Francisco Bay Area" (forthcoming 2010), "[From Site to Vision] the Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture The [e]Book," Felix XXX, Nest, Millienium Film Journal, Afterimage, Swingset, Film Comment, Artbyte, New Art Examiner, Blocnotes, and Framework.

Former faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, Kansas City Art Institute, University of California at Irvine, Massachusetts College of Art, Pratt Institute and The New School University. From 2003 to 2007, co-owned and operated Anthology Books, an independent international bookshop in Dublin, Ireland.

Currently Core Faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Film/Video Co-Chair, 2000 to 2004. Currently Artist-Teacher at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist at The Cooper Union, New York, and faculty at the Institute of Contemporary Art, New York.

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

photography

awards & honors
2008
Anonymous Was A Woman, nomination

Renew Media Grant, nomination

2006
Website Development Grant, Dublin City Enterprise Board, Dublin, Ireland

2001
Vito Russo Award, The New Festival, New York

Artist in Residence, The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University

2000
Artist in Residence, The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University

1998
New York State Council on the Arts Award for Independent Media

Jerome Foundation Award for Media

1997
Alpert Award, nomination

Rockefeller Foundation Award, nomination

1996  
Best Documentary Award for My Failure to Assimilate, Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

1995
Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund Grant for Video Criticism

Rockefeller Foundation Award, nomination

Faculty Development Grant, University of California at Irvine

1994
Rockefeller Foundation Award, nomination

1993
Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute

"Special Tribute to the Work of Cecilia Dougherty" at the New Festival, New York

1992
Artist in Residence, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco

1990
Western States Media Arts Fellowship

Artist in Residence in Photography, The Lab, The.art.re.grup, San Francisco

1985      
Phi Beta Kappa


screenings & exhibitions

writing

bibliography

links to online sources