Whacker
Stanya Kahn, Harry Dodge
»Under a cloudless Los Angeles sky, Kahn − dressed in incongruous heels and a summery dress − runs an electric weed whacker through a hill of overgrown grass. During breaks, the whacker’s annoying buzz gives way to the trill of birds and distant sirens, with Elvis Presley’s In the Ghetto leaking from a passing car or a radio somewhere.«
(Text reprinted with permission by Electronic Arts Intermix. www.eai.org)
Stanya Kahn
Born in California in 1968, Kahn studied social sciences in San Francisco. This was followed by a degree in art at the Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Red Hook. The work of the award-winning, interdisciplinary artist encompasses painting, performances, video art, literature and photography.
Films by Stanya Kahn (Selection)
Don’t Go Back to Sleep 2014 | Who Do You Think You Are? 2011 | It’s Cool, I’m Good 2010 | I See You, Man 2008 | All Together Now 2008 | The Ugly Truth 2006 | Whacker 2005 | Let the Good Times Roll 2004 | Winner 2002
Harry Dodge
Harry Dodge works together with Stanya Khan in Los Angeles. In their video works the artists approach the alienation and violence of contemporary American life with absurdist humour. Dodge and Kahn’s collaborative, performance- based videos inhabit an urban L.A. landscape that evokes both the everyday and the post-apocalyptic. In deadpan performances and elliptical narratives, Dodge and Kahn infuse their uncanny visions of Bush’s America with wit, dread and longing.
Films by Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn (Selection)
All Together Now 2008 | Nature Demo 2008 | Masters of None 2006 | Winner 2002
