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SUMMARY: Stanya Kahn — Arms Are Overrated
DESCRIPTION: Artist’s Talk by Stanya Kahn Stanya Kahn is an interdisciplina
 ry artist working primarily in video\, with a practice that includes perfor
 mance\, writing\, sound design\, drawing\, animation and digital media. Kah
 n’s hybrid media practice borrows from pop vernacular\, documentary tropes\
 , improvisation\, comedy and experimental film/video praxis in its re-worki
 ng of signs\, function and meanings in narrativity. […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <h4>Artist's Talk by Stanya Kahn</h4><p><stro
 ng>Stanya Kahn</strong> is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in
  video\, with a practice that includes performance\, writing\, sound design
 \, drawing\, animation and digital media. Kahn’s hybrid media practice borr
 ows from pop vernacular\, documentary tropes\, improvisation\, comedy and e
 xperimental film/video praxis in its re-working of signs\, function and mea
 nings in narrativity. The work often inhabits spaces between fiction and do
 cument and stems from an extensive background in live performance. Integrat
 ing the scripted with the candid\, Kahn addresses issues like agency\, powe
 r\, trauma and the uses and failings of language.</p><p>"Stanya Kahn’s firs
 t solo exhibition at this gallery features three thirty- to forty-minute vi
 deos that smack of YouTube vernacular: handheld camera\; on-camera mic\; fo
 otage of friends\, family\, and little kids playing piano. Closer observati
 on reveals masterful application of Eisensteinian editing\, with meticulous
 ly choreographed sound tracks and threads of epistemological ruminations th
 at indicate a philosophical conscientiousness that’s often overlooked in co
 nversations about Kahn’s work. Each video canvasses the concerns and coping
  mechanisms of a contemporary subject who is forging her way through a worl
 d in crisis. Before you roll your eyes at the apparent pedantry of it all\,
  consider that each work is peppered with slyly subversive jokes––about but
 ts\, blondes\, and sex––as well as remarkable personal stories and an impre
 ssive stream of eclectic facts about animals\, ecology\, and health. Kahn’s
  characters are contemporary flaneurs\, and each is steadfast on a physical
  or linguistic dérive that takes the viewer through narratives of mortality
 \, trauma\, family\, and the ethics of civic and ecological responsibility.
 "<br /><em>Micol Hebron\, Stanya Kahn\, Critics Pick\, Artforum\, 2010<br /
 ></em><br />In addition to her solo work\, Kahn has been in collaborative t
 eams with artist Harry Dodge and with the performance company CORE. Her sol
 o and collaborative works have shown in numerous venues nationally and inte
 rnationally including The Whitney Biennial (2008)\; The California Biennial
  (2010)\; MoMA/NY\; MOCA/LA\; The Getty Center/LA\, the Hammer Museum/LA\; 
 the Sundance Film Festival\; Migrating Forms Film Festival\; the Center for
  Art and Media/Karlsrühe\; PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art/NY\; Contemporary
  Center for Art/Vilnius\, Lithuania\; MIT\, Cambridge\; ICA\, Philadelphia\
 ; Kunstalle\, Bonn\, Germany\; The Brooklyn Museum\, NY\; The Hayward Galle
 ry\, London\; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles and Elizabeth Dee Gallery/NY\,
  among many others. Recently solo shows include the New Museum in New York 
 and currently on view at Cornerhouse in Manchester is a survey of her solo 
 works from 2008 to the present with an accompanying book. Kahn is a 2012 Gu
 ggenheim Fellow in Film/Video.</p><p>This event is free and open to the pub
 lic.</p><p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/
 stanya-kahn-at-susanne-vielmetter-los-angeles-projects.html">http://latimes
 blogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/stanya-kahn-at-susanne-vielmetter-
 los-angeles-projects.html</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?
 v=f5wOBTuNjho&feature=plcp&context=C4035a9eVDvjVQa1PpcFOyDlrISdr2KRHMIYBGQE
 VqmN1wQDHdq6w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wOBTuNjho&feature=plcp&con
 text=C4035a9eVDvjVQa1PpcFOyDlrISdr2KRHMIYBGQEVqmN1wQDHdq6w</a>=</p><p><a hr
 ef="http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=sp10042f50&sp_q=stanya+kahn&sp_p=a
 ll&sp_f=UTF-8">http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=sp10042f50&sp_q=stanya+
 kahn&sp_p=all&sp_f=UTF-8</a></p><p><a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/108/
 articles/3302">http://bombsite.com/issues/108/articles/3302</a></p><p><a hr
 ef="http://artforum.com/picks/id=25180&view=print">http://artforum.com/pick
 s/id=25180&view=print</a></p><p><a href="http://www.artforum.com/archive/id
 =30511">http://www.artforum.com/archive/id=30511</a></p>
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