Barbara Rosenthal: Existential Word Play: A Mini-Retrospective

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  • Location: Millennium Film Workshop, 66 E. 4th St, Basement, New York , New York, 10003, US
  • Starts: Jan 12 2013 at 8:00AM
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Existential Word Play: A Mini-Retrospective of 33 Photo/Performance/Text Videos in 72 Minutes

Director, Writer, Performer, Editor: Barbara Rosenthal

On-screen text and verbal gymnastics in English and other languages mingle with photographic
and performance imagery in humorous, provocative video short-shorts created 1976-2012 in
multiple gauges and formats. These include: "Lettering Too Big", "Secret Of Life", "Nancy
and Sluggo", "A Boy and His Father Butcher a Deer", "Boggle", "Paths To Follow",
"Words Come Out Backwards", "Quotation from Paul Gauguin, "This Is A", "Dog
Recognition", "Postcards", "Rules", "Space and Time", "World View", "Names and
Faces", "Siddhartha", "Black and Silent", "Whispering Confession", "Secret Codes",
"Push Me", "Burp Talk", "Daily News", "News To Fit The Family", "I Have a New
York Accent", "Lying Diary/Provocation Cards", "Semaphore Poems", "News Wall",
"Nonsense Conversation", "Society", "How Much Does the Monkey Remember", "Feet
Handoff", "Pregnancy Dreams", and "Handwriting Analysis."

About Barbara Rosenthal:

Born and still living in New York, Barbara Rosenthal is an avant-garde artist and writer who
produces idiosyncratic combinations of words, communicative sounds, gestures, and pictures.
Her artist's books are in the collections of MoMA, Whitney, Tate, and Berlin Kunstbibliotek.
She has made over 100 photography, text, and performance-based video shorts which are
screened most often in Berlin. In 2009 and 2010, she represented the the United States
in Performance Art and Text-Based Art at Tina B: Prague Contemporary Art Festival.
Although individual shorts are occasionally screened in New York (Anthology, Millenium,
eMediaLoft, Local Project, Sugar Lounge, Florence Lynch Gallery, Jewish Museum), this is
the first extended look since her solo month of "Diaries, Documents, and Conceptual Pieces" at
The Kitchen in 1987, and an evening at DCTV in 1988 which received a full-page review in
The Village Voice by Manohla Dargis. Her existential and surreal work investigates the
relationship between an artist's psyche and the outer world.
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More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rosenthal,

Admission: $8/$5 Members By Contribution

Location: Millennium Film Workshop, 66 E 4th Street, Basement, New York, NY