Those of you who made it to Sheena's talk last Thursday (October 20th) will I hope agree that this was an unmissable opportunity to discover the background to this artist's current work and to gain an appreciation of the diversity of influences the artist/filmmaker can incorporate into their practice. Sheena's website provides an excellent summary of her career to date and showcases her recent work with several quicktime movies. If you are still curious about the work then this is the place to look.
This talk was particularly relevant to those of you working with super 8 since Sheena originally studied filmmaking and was able to explain many of the techniques of the process from the viewpoint of a practioner, much of which is probably unknown to those who have only used video as a medium for exploring the moving image.
Turning her attention to the use appropriated footage in her current practice, Sheena makes reference to the contemporary theorist Nicolas Bourriaud and the book Postproduction in which he argues that cultural production such as the sample, the remake and hence appropriation are part of a contemporary eclecticism whereby artists are no longer working with 'primary' material, everything is material. By coincidence, mention was also made of the Uruguayan artist Martin Sastre who has recently approporiated Mathew Barney's Cremaster Cycle! (previous post), about which I can find no information so far, but I will keep looking.
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