TIRTZA EVEN - Artist Talk "The Story of Telling"

Tirtza Even
 
Artist talk:
The Story of Telling
 
Friday, February 17, 2012
1:00 - 3:00 pm
 Hexagram Resource Centre
EV Building, 11.705
Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine St. W.
Montreal QC
The Story of Telling

Tirtza Even's presentation, "The Story of Telling,"will review her efforts to communicate social and political realities in visual media.  Even's linear and interactive video work have consistently been engaged with representing the encounter with a variety of groups and individuals, typically ones whose lives embody complex or decentralized social/political settings (in Palestine, Turkey, the U.S and Germany, among other locations).  At the same time (and perhaps especially) the work could also be described as an exploration of the inevitable, yet nuanced, failure of this very act of representation.
 
Even's most recent projects include Natural Life (a feature length documentary on incarcerated youth, in progress, 2011), Failed (a multi-channel video installation, in progress, 2011), All Day (a short experimental documentary made in collaboration with an inmate locked for life at a Michigan State prison, 2012), and Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains (a multi-channel video/ 3-D animation reflecting on personal encounters in Palestine, 2009.