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Upcoming Exhibitions

LiveBox is pleased to announce Tim Greer's participation in the Flint Institute of Art's Film programming. “Eleanor”, looped video. , 2007, (3:11 min) will be screened during the month of September. Eleanor is gorgeously shot with reminiscences of Planet Earth and other wildlife documentaries, yet subtly critiquing the US involvement in the Middle East. The piece is shot tightly capturing crickets caught in a liquid substance, presumably oil. The close-up shots depict the bugs devouring and succumbing to the liquid. The piece is open enough to engage a dialogue on excess as well as war.

“New and Improved”, by Voshardt and Sven Humphrey (2007, 2 min 21 sec), shows a manic flash-card script for positive thinking and self-improvement. Overloading between directives and objectives: “I am…, I can…, I will…” the reader can’t prioritize between daily minutiae or life-changing goals. The handwritten cards come from an actual exercise in behavioral modification. It’s a poignant collision of conflicting ideals: the remnants of a stringent work ethic vs. self-regulated emotional development attempting to keep pace in a post-Fordist global economy.

“I want to make a video about you”, by Chie Yamayoshi (2005, 12:00 min). A young woman invites strangers found on the Internet to act out intimate roles, friend, family member or boyfriend. The piece unpretentiously delves into issues of cyber culture, racial stereotypes, intimacy and anonymity, danger and fantasy.