Upcoming
Oct 3 - Nov 7, 2010

The Fourth Space

videos by
Cecilia Dougherty

with soundworks by
Alexsei Stevens

Participant Inc.

253 E Houston St
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-4334

www.participantinc.org

Opening 7PM
Sunday Oct 3
253 E. Houston St.
New York, NY 10002

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My videos are available from the VIDEO DATA BANK. Just follow the Artist Index link and click on Cecilia Dougherty for clips and info about videos currently distributed.

Laurie Weeks and Frances Sorensen in Gone - video still

click here for the original 1991 Gone video website

Gone split-screen version newly available from the Video Data Bank!
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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
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Anthology Books, Dublin
an independent bookstore in Temple Bar from 2004-2007. A photo I took looking out onto Meeting House Square from the stacks.
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-The Fourth Space -
a Video Installation by Cecilia Dougherty
+
Sound Installation by Aleksei Stevens

Oct 3 - Nov 7 2010
PARTICIPANT, INC. NYC


THE FOURTH SPACE
by Cecilia Dougherty

THE FOURTH SPACE is the title of a new four-channel video installation shot in New York, Chicago, New Haven, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Baltimore.The theme is space/place/architecture/proprioception/home. My thoughts on the topic: from obsessive desire for a well designed home of my own with a meticulously planned interior, to finding true joy that springs from the freedom to wander, unfettered and unattached - a nomad was I.

The video is silent and is accompanied by a sound installation by composer Aleksei Stevens. Video and sound run together throughout the show - separate, and yet simultaneous and connected.

OTHER VIDEOS INCLUDE:

TETRAGRAMMATON (2-channel, 2010: 23:00) --
In 2008 I began to videotape places and spaces arbitrarily, not 100% certain of what I was looking for, or if I was even looking for anything. I was at Brighton Beach in Brooklyn one day and was reminded of the 1973 video by Frank Gillette called Tetragrammaton, a gorgeous soft video shot on reel to reel, depicting scenes at a beach - sky, sun, surf, sand; long shots, close ups, and a swinging camera movement that tried to take in the whole scene at once. Occasionally, bells sound, to remind the viewer that the beach is a spritual place
.
The title refers to an archaic Hebrew word that is formed by the four letters (YHWH) representing the name of the god, a name that cannot be spoken aloud, and a word that only a few people from each generation are taught to pronounce. Frank Gillette's video is about the sea, the sky, the beach and the passing of time. I went back to the beach with my old Nokia 5103 cell phone to shoot my response to Gillette. The idea of the quotidian became significant and renewed.

THE THIRD INTERVAL (2-channel, 2010, 8:40) --
Named for Paul Virilio's obsessions with speed, the Internet, the human place on the electronic bullet train. Shot with the same Nokia cell phone, and mixed with Apple's GarageBand software, this is a low-tech homage to all the lives that are lived in the in-between spaces of our ever-forming age of communication over/under-load. An excerpt appears here.

THE THIRD SPACE (single-channel, 2009, 27:05)
This is the video that began to pull together the idea of the quotidian and the idea of the remarkable - our remarkable ability to maneuver through the spaces offered by the earth's geography, city planning, and human event. An excerpt can be found here.

THE SCENOGRAPHY (single-channel miniature, 2010, 26:34, silent)
A brief description and excerpt appears on this page, next column. This was a fun piece to construct, if I can use that word for something that required no sets, no camera, no real place at all to create. The place is virtual, the piece remains in the fantasy realm, but speaks, nonetheless to and about the real.

 

ARCHITECTURE:
My faddish love of architecture magazines has been mixed with a good dose of nomadism (almost a year on the road ) + newly downloaded Sweet Home 3D free architectural modeling software, equallng a new video: THE SCENOGRAPHY. Just completed THE SCENOGRAPHY in August 2010, and offering a glimpse, below:

THE SCENOGRAPHY
by Cecilia Dougherty (2010, 26:34 mins, excerpted)

QuickTime player required to view: free download here


Aleksei Stevens, musician

Aleksei Stevens is a composer and formerly Director of the Electronic Music Foundation. He has performed live at many venues locally in New York, and around the country. He has created scores to be played live with my video work, and is the composer of a sound installation to occupy the gallery space simultaneous to THE FOURTH SPACE.

Check out Aleksei Stevens's website and hear his other compositions at http://www.alekseistevens.com. He's fantastic. As he said before one video/sound performance began, the music is not meant to accompany the video, nor to be a background for the visuals. The video is the fourth player in the ensemble


A series of digital color prints (20 x 32.9) has been created to accompany the exhibit at Participant. All photos are based on video stills from my installation THE FOURTH SPACE. Click here for a preview.

THE FOURTH SPACE video still, digital color print
THE FOURTH SPACE video still, digital color print
THE FOURTH SPACE video still, digital color print
THE FOURTH SPACE video still, digital color print

SOME INFO ON PREVIOUS SHOWS found here

"The Third Space," Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, January 2010, video lounge take-over

"Mama-san," Glendale Art Gallery, Oct - Dec 2009, group show curated by Young Chung

"The Third Space," The Stone, New York, October 2009, screening with live music by Aleksei Stevens, including musicians Jessie Marino and Jessica Schmit

"Signal to Noise," Canada Gallery, New York, August, 2009, screening with David Dasharath Kalal

One can order my videos and video stills from my distributor, the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60603 USA, (01) 312-345-3550
http://www.vdb.org

My video works are archived at the Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, CA 94704, USA, (01) 510-642-1437
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

Contact me personally at
cecilia.dougherty@gmail.com


 


website, images, videos & content copyright 2009-2010 Cecilia Dougherty

Creative Commons License
This work by Cecilia Dougherty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.


 

ABOUT

list of videos

The Scenography, 2010, 26:34
The Fourth Space,
2010, 30:00, installation
The Third Interval,
2010, 8:40
Tetragrmmaton (
2-channel instllation), 2010, 23:00,
Gothic Holy Days,
2009, 4:00
Supertasking,
2009, 30:00
Tetragrammaton, 2009, 23:00
The Third Space, 2009, 27:05
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

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 International Center of Photography, New York.

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

awards & honors

2010
Artist in Residence, Wexner Center for the Arts

Artist in Residence, Experimental Television Center

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

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