Beth B “Voyeur”
Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project
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Howl! Happening presents Beth B’s Voyeur, an installation of video, photography and sculpture that explores the varied perceptions of the female and male gaze. The exhibition enlists the viewer’s implicit participation with transgressive imagery and invites each person to examine their own boundaries and preconceptions regarding sexuality and gender. A new Beth B publication, Nudes, will be published by Howl! to coincide with the exhibition.
The exhibition documents unmediated life in which the viewer holds the gaze from outside, like a peeping tom, and observes in a way which is normally forbidden. Do you participate? Do you walk away? Voyeur also presents provocative questions regarding online privacy and public security as our every move in life is potentially tracked and recorded.
Beth B is renowned for her groundbreaking films from the 70s such as Black Box, Vortex, and The Offenders. Throughout her prolific career, she has produced more than 30 films in the documentary, experimental and narrative genres, working independently and through television. Her explosive film Exposed (2013), and many others, have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Walker Art Center. Her films have been screened at the New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival and more.
Her new feature documentary film Call Her Applebroog had its world premiere at the Museum of Modern Art and opened at the Metrograph theater in New York City and other theatrical venues. The film reveals renowned artist Ida Applebroog’s groundbreaking artwork, which has inquired into the polemics of human relations, but more intimately, is about her dramatic struggle to overcome adversity. Her personal story is one that Beth B knows well—Ida is her mother and colleague.
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Schedule
from February 18, 2017 to March 16, 2017
Ms. Foundation Panel Discussion about the sexual representation of women today Thursday, February 23rd / 7 PM
Opening Reception on 2017-02-18 from 18:00 to 21:00