Final Product: Posturing Piece

Untitled (January 2011) from Whitney Warne on Vimeo.

Kristian Kozul

Thinking about her work in relationship to my dolls. Humor plus heavily used consumer objects already encoded with their specific cultural stigmas. Altering the object to rediscover the object.

Woman-Girl-Doll: The Beginnings

Woman-Girl-Doll from Whitney Warne on Vimeo.

Sorry about the quality. It doesn't compress well for Vimeo. I'll figure this out.

Here is the beginnings of an idea. The bare bones of the process and direction. Thoughts I'm ruminating on/around/above and below:

A.) The need to construct and deconstruct ideas of gender/femininity.
B.) Need to MAINTAIN control over performance of gender/femininity.
C.) Traditional vs. Contemporary standards of lady-like behavior.
D.) Standardization of dolls given to little girl. Who plays with dolls and what kind of women do they become. What if the dolls became the women that played with them.
E.) Do you have to rebel to be liberated? Does liberation dictate a change in appearance or only a change in mindset?
F.) The doll moves back and forth between tradition and liberation. Is she struggling? Is this reality? What does she gain through either transformation? What does she loose? Is it important that she is liberated? Is this reality?

Lilli Carre

Beautiful little illustration and moving images. Made me laugh multiple times. I also enjoyed the function and form of her website. Check it out.

Chelsea Knight

Another interesting video artist. Looking into researching her more.

Marianna Ellenburg

Interesting artist I found while browsing possible gallery/exhibitoin spaces. Her work is a combination of video/sound/photographs about the body and phamecutical drugs. Beautifully asthetisized to lure us in and engage in a critic of prescription drugs.

Take a Look.

New Piece

Here's my most recent piece. I need to adjust the audio and work with the levels in Color a bit, but otherwise I love it.

Untitled from Whitney Warne on Vimeo.