Cecilia Dougherty works in video, installation, photography, writing, and web applications. Areas of interest include the study of everyday life, community, architecture, globalization, networked reality, and the body/self as configured in both physical and electronic space. She is influenced by radical feminism, ethnography, human rights, studies of architecture and space, and critical theory.

She lives in Brooklyn, New York

 

 

 

 


Cecilia Dougherty

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Works are distributed by the Video Data Bank. http://www.vdb.org/artists/cecilia-dougherty

 

Video Data Bank distributing Writers Series

 

The Video Data Bank is now distributing my 4 writer's videos together as The Writers Series.

The DVD includes:

LAURIE (1998), a portrait of Laurie Weeks, with text from her recently published book Zippermouth (Feminist Press, New York, 2011). Laurie Weeks plays the Lower East Side.

LESLIE (1998), a portrait of New Language poet Leslie Scalapino, with text from Deer Night. Leslie was a brilliant writer, and a deeply compassionate, gentle person with unwavering political convictions.

EILEEN (2000), a portrait of New York poet Eileen Myles, who is reading from her novel Cool For You. A home movie, a day in the life.

KEVIN & CEDAR, an afternoon spent with Kevin Killian and Cedar Sigo, with readings and text from both their poetry. An afternoon in Kevin's San Fran apartment.

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Check it out!

Anthology Film Archives, video screenings April 20 & 21

Upcoming April 20 & 21, 2012, New York

Laboratory: Video by Cecilia Dougherty
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, NYC 10003

Show #1: Friday, April 20, 7:30pm
In A Station, Petals , 2011, 13:06, silent
Laurie, 1998, 11:03
Leslie, 1998, 11:06
Eileen, 2000, 10:16
Kevin & Cedar, 2002, 8:38
Gone, 2001, 36:42

Cecilia Dougherty in conversation with
Ed Halter after this screening.

Show #2: Saturday, April 21, 4:30pm
Coat of Arms, 1987, 16:00, silent
The Third Space, 2009, 27:05
Claudia, 1987, 7:50
My Failure to Assiimilate, 1995, 20:00

Show #3: Saturday, April 21, 8pm
Occupy Wall Street Redux, 2011, 14:25 silent
The Drama of the Gifted Child, 1992, 5:30
Joe-Joe, co-directed by Leslie Singer, 1993, 52:00

Live Reading from Joe-Orton's LOOT with
Lynne Tillman, Gary Indiana and Eileen Myles
before the screening of JOE-JOE.



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