Katie Armstrong "Once More"
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"Once More, Once More" is an animated piece set to Armstrong's own bittersweet rendition of Britney Spears' Baby One More Time, a song dug up from the garbage of American pop culture. She attempts to give it new life both by singing the tune and by examining what made it so powerful and memorable through image making. It is an experiment in storytelling, a study of time and visual language from the perspective of someone raised on the internet, constantly clicking, taking in data, repeating and reloading.
Her work revolves around the creation of hand drawn animations paired with intimate audio recordings. The nature of animation, video or any other kind of time-based media lends itself very well to storytelling, but Armstrong aims to challenge the way that stories are told.
"Perhaps my issue is that time is so expansive, and the events of a human life so complicated, overwhelming, and beautiful, that I worry there is no way to tell a story and accurately capture what existence is really, truly like. Only recently have I come to realize that a good storyteller is like a good curator, they choose events and arrange them together in an engaging way. A good story, or a good work of art, says much more than it states plainly-- it's a kind of divine simplification that somehow maintains fullness beyond itself. My work searches for this fullness."
Katie Armstrong graduated from The School of Visual Art in 2010 and was an Artist in Residence in The Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany.
[Image: Katie Armstrong "Once More, Once More" (still, 2011) hand-drawn animation 4 minutes, edition of 100 size variable]
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from September 08, 2011 to October 15, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-09-08 from 18:00 to 20:00