Survey of Work
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My Safari
Excerpt from my video diary detailing my first journey to East Africa: Tanzania and Zanzibar in 1997. Screened at Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Burofriedrich, Berlin. 2002.
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NY Rainbow Video
Video documentation of my first presentation of Global Rainbow for one night in NY City on Martin Luther King day 2009. Music by Guilherme Vaz.
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Jakob Lenz
Video and Stage Design for Jakob Lenz, Kammeroper by Wolfgang Rihm, Directed by Renate Ackerman. Presented at Hochschule fur Musik, Karlsruhe and Premiered at Riga National Opera House, Riga Latvia 2003.
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ANALOG – Live Durational Performance
Documentation video of Kira O'reilly reading text from Acconci's 'command performance' for ANALOG durational live performance directed by and performed w/ Yvette Mattern at Baltic Gateshead, UK. 2006.
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Hybrid
Video created at the Eric Young Foundation in Jersey, UK for 'Three Voices in my head' curated by Shaheen Merali, Freies Museum. Orchid hybridization as a metaphor for the politics of race mixing.
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Black Sound White Cube
Black Sound White Cube July 10 - August 28, 2011 Kunstquartier Bethanien The exhibition Black Sound White Cube will present works by ten international artists that refer to the musical traditions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Video: Interview with my Mother.
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Gallery
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Cinema Remixed and Reloaded
CINEMA REMIXED AND RELOADED: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Curated by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Valerie Cassel Oliver. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS include: Julie Dash, Yvette Mattern, Wangechi Mutu, Berni Searle, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker
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Ask Yo Mama
Ask Yo Mama is a “post black” exhibition and follows a series of exhibitions from the US (One Planet Under a Groove, Black Light White Noise, Freestyle etc). Work exhibited, Mulatta, light sculpture Kunstraum Niederösterreich 30.September-10.December 2011 in Vienna
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Interview with my mother
A short excerpt of a video interview with my mother discussing her views on blackness and the legacy of racism. Video exhibited at the Sternersen Museum, Oslo, Norway, Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen and Freies Museum Berlin. 2007-10.
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Heroes
A video in collaboration with Robin Arthur from the British performance group, 'Forced Entertainment' detailing a fictional account of his meeting with David Bowie and their creation of the song 'Heroes' in Berlin, Germany. 2005
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FROM ONE TO MANY BERLIN VIDEO
Video created by Laserfabrik documenting the premier of 'From One to Many' at the Transmediale Festival in Berlin 2010.
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Hijack
Video I shot in 2001 during a bus trip from Berlin to Amsterdam. Screened at 16 Beaver Group, NYC. 2004.
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Mini Israel
Mini Israel was recorded during my visit to Tel Aviv, December 2008 - one month before Gaza Massacre. Selected for group video show "Last Day of Magic" at the 53rd Venice Biennial's official satellite project "Détournement, Venice 2009".
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Warsaw Rainbow
I created this video as I was developing the Global Rainbow during a residency in 2008/09 at the AIR Program at the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland. Music by Guilherme Vaz.
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ANALOG
An excerpt of a video from a residency in 2005/6 at The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art England. British artists and performers are invited to audition for a reconstruction of Vito Acconci's 1974 Video - 'Command Performance'.
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Dream Fuzzy
An early video work: Dream Fuzzy is part of a poetic video 'Dream' series including Dream Puppy, Dream Fuzzy and Zanzibar Project created in the late 90's. Screened at Anthology Film Archives, NYC. 1999. Music by Phill Niblock.
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Seven Rays of Coloured Light in a White Cube
Light Sculpture created for the group exhibition 'Three Voices in My Head" at the Freies Museum Berlin, 2010, curated by Shaheen Merali.
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Black Light White Sound
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's Summer 2007 exhibition, Black Light/White Noise, which focuses on black artists who have worked with sound and light. Curator: Valerie Cassel Oliver Artists: Sanford Biggers, Louis Cameron, Kianga Ford, Kira Lynn Harris, Satch Hoyt,...
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Mulatta
Text based light Sculpture exhibited at Sternersen Museum, Oslo for Equatorial Rhythms curated by Selene Wendt, Africa exhibition auction, Phillips De Pury, NY.
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Global Rainbow Toulouse
Television report of Global Rainbow Laser Installation presented for La Novela Festival, 2010 in Toulouse France.
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Global Rainbow, Nantes France
Le lieu unique presented Global Rainbow in Nantes from 9 to 16 septembre 2011 Curator: Patrick Gyger Lasers: Lightwave International, George Dodworth Artist: Yvette Mattern
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