Nina Levitt
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Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Ville : Toronto
Pays : Canada
Type of Creator: Artiste
Genre : Female
Médiums : commande, installation, la photographie, vidéo
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Oeuvre d'art par Nina Levitt
Conspiracy of Silence
ID : 15834
Description: 4 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1987
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Conspiracy of Silence
ID : 15831
Description: 1 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1987
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Conspiracy of Silence
ID : 15835
Description: 5 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1987
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Conspiracy of Silence
ID : 15833
Description: 3 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1987
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Conspiracy of Silence
ID : 15832
Description: 2 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1987
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Think Nothing of It (Dorothy Arzner & Joan Crawford)
ID : 15841
Description: 5 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1990
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Think Nothing of It (Dorothy Arzner & Joan Crawford)
ID : 15837
Description: 1 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1990
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Think Nothing of It (Dorothy Arzner & Joan Crawford)
ID : 15838
Description: 2 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1990
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Think Nothing of It (Dorothy Arzner & Joan Crawford)
ID : 15836
Description: Series of 5.
Des mesures : each: 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1990
Matériaux : colour photographs
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Think Nothing of It (Dorothy Arzner & Joan Crawford)
ID : 15839
Description: 3 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1990
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Think Nothing of It (Dorothy Arzner & Joan Crawford)
ID : 15840
Description: 4 of a series of 5.
Des mesures : 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1990
Matériaux : colour photograph
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Embrace
ID : 15845
Description: 3 of a series of 4.
Des mesures : 50.8 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : gelatin silver print
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Embrace
ID : 15842
Description: Series of 4.
Des mesures : each: 50.8 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : gelatin silver prints
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Embrace
ID : 15846
Description: 4 of a series of 4.
Des mesures : 50.8 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : gelatin silver print
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Embrace
ID : 15844
Description: 2 of a series of 4.
Des mesures : 50.8 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : gelatin silver print
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Embrace
ID : 15843
Description: 1 of a series of 4.
Des mesures : 50.8 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : gelatin silver print
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Submerged (for Alice Austen)
ID : 15847
Des mesures : 3: 76.2 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991-1992
Matériaux : colour photographs mounted on masonite, pine shelf
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Calamity
ID : 15852
Des mesures : 5.08 framed panels, each: 104.14 x 63.5 cm; 264.16 x 161.29 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991-1992
Matériaux : colour photographs with exposed photographic paper
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Submerged (for Alice Austen), detail 2 of 4
ID : 15849
Des mesures : 76.2 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991-1992
Matériaux : colour photograph mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Submerged (for Alice Austen), detail 4 of 4
ID : 15851
Des mesures : 76.2 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991-1992
Matériaux : colour photograph mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Submerged (for Alice Austen), detail 1 of 4
ID : 15848
Des mesures : 76.2 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991-1992
Matériaux : colour photograph mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Submerged (for Alice Austen), detail 3 of 4
ID : 15850
Des mesures : 76.2 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1991-1992
Matériaux : colour photograph mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Monde interdit, detail 2 of 6
ID : 15860
Des mesures : colour photograph: 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photograph, framed b&w silver print, engraved brass plaque
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Untitled ( from the Notman Archives), detail 2 of 4
ID : 15855
Des mesures : each: 45.72 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photographs mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Monde interdit, installation view
ID : 15858
Des mesures : 13 framed b&w silver prints
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : 5 colour photographs; 13 framed b&w silver prints; 13 engraved brass plaques
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Untitled ( from the Notman Archives), detail 4 of 4
ID : 15857
Des mesures : each: 45.72 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photographs mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Monde interdit, detail 5 of 6
ID : 15863
Des mesures : colour photograph: 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photograph, framed b&w silver print, engraved brass plaque
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Untitled ( from the Notman Archives), detail 1 of 4
ID : 15854
Des mesures : each: 45.72 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photographs mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : 90s-Toronto, Original CCCA
Monde interdit, detail 1 of 6
ID : 15859
Des mesures : colour photograph: 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photograph, framed b&w silver print, engraved brass plaque
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Monde interdit, detail 6 of 6
ID : 15864
Des mesures : colour photograph: 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photograph, framed b&w silver print, engraved brass plaque
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Untitled ( from the Notman Archives), detail 3 of 4
ID : 15856
Des mesures : each: 45.72 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photographs mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Monde interdit, detail 4 of 6
ID : 15862
Des mesures : colour photograph: 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photograph, framed b&w silver print, engraved brass plaque
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Untitled ( from the Notman Archives)
ID : 15853
Des mesures : each: 45.72 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : 11 colour photographs mounted on masonite
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Monde interdit, detail 3 of 6
ID : 15861
Des mesures : colour photograph: 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : colour photograph, framed b&w silver print, engraved brass plaque
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Harbour, detail of Part I, monitor
ID : 15866
Description: A two-part video installation. No Audio.
Part I: Black & white slow motion video sequence played on a monitor depicts the interaction between two young women who are looking at a photograph of a man posing at the beach. Taken from Maëdchen in Uniform, 1931 (Director: Leontine Sagan) a German film about the doomed lesbian love affair between a young schoolgirl and her teacher.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Harbour, detail of Part II, film still
ID : 15868
Description: A two-part video installation. No Audio.
Part II: A looped video image projected onto a black & white photograph suspended from the ceiling, about 5 feet away from a wall. The video consistes of a staged colour sequence of my mouth saying the word "harbour", montaged with a clip from Maëdchen. The video image projected onto the suspended photograph spills over onto the back wall of the gallery, creating a spatial rupture in the visual field. An essential aspect of Part II is that the viewer exaggerates or bridges the ruptured image by moving at different angles to the projection.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Harbour, Part II, detail
ID : 15867
Description: A two-part video installation. No Audio.
Part II: A looped video image projected onto a black & white photograph suspended from the ceiling, about 5 feet away from a wall. The video consistes of a staged colour sequence of my mouth saying the word "harbour", montaged with a clip from Maëdchen. The video image projected onto the suspended photograph spills over onto the back wall of the gallery, creating a spatial rupture in the visual field. An essential aspect of Part II is that the viewer exaggerates or bridges the ruptured image by moving at different angles to the projection.
Des mesures : video projection: approx. 4' x 5'
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : film still, Sony CPJ-100 mini video projector, VHS deck
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Harbour, installation view
ID : 15865
Description: Right - Part I; left - Part II.
A two-part video installation. No Audio.
Part I: Black & white slow motion video sequence played on a monitor depicts the interaction between two young women who are looking at a photograph of a man posing at the beach. Taken form Maëdchen in Uniform, 1931 (Director: Leontine Sagan) a German film about the doomed lesbian love affair between a young schoolgirl and her teacher.
Part II: A looped video image projected onto a black & white photograph suspended from the ceiling, about 5 feet away from a wall. The video consistes of a staged colour sequence of my mouth saying the word "harbour", montaged with a clip from Maëdchen. The video image projected onto the suspended photograph spills over onto the back wall of the gallery, creating a spatial rupture in the visual field. An essential aspect of Part II is that the viewer exaggerates or bridges the ruptured image by moving at different angles to the projection.
Des mesures : photograph: 35.56 x 27.94 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : 24" monitor, VHS deck, photograph, Sony CPJ-100 mini video projector, tripod
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Gravity, detail
ID : 15872
Description: Video projection of a sequence of women divers spinning, in slow motion, over a sparkling blue swiming pool. Projected onto white vinyl on the floor. Source: Television coverage of 1996 Summer Olympic Games, Women's Diving Competition.
Des mesures : video projection: 55.88 x 66.04 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997-1998
Matériaux : video projection, mini video projector, tripod, VCR, vinyl floor covering
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Gravity, detail
ID : 15870
Description: Dancers at The Gateways lesbian bar, London. Video loop comprised of two slow motion sequences: a long shot of a crowd of women dancing; cut to a close-up of a young couple dancing cheek to cheek. Source: The Killing of Sister George, 1974, Director: Robert Aldrich.
Des mesures : video wall projection: 0.2784 x 0.348 m
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997-1998
Matériaux : video wall projection, LCD video projector, VCR
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Gravity, detail
ID : 15874
Description: Looped video projection of the First Woman in Space, Valentina Terechkova, waving and smiling from her Russian space capsule. Projected onto an opaque Plexiglas screen suspended from the ceiling. Viewers can watch the flickering black & white image from both sides. Source: Dateline: 1961/62 Into Orbit, produced by ABC News, New Atlantic Productions, 1982.
Des mesures : plexiglass: 33.02 x 22.86 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997-1998
Matériaux : mini video projector, tripod, VCR, plexiglass suspended from ceiling
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Gravity, installation view of “Spin”
ID : 15871
Description: Video projection of a sequence of women divers spinning, in slow motion, over a sparkling blue swiming pool. Projected onto white vinyl on the floor. Source: Television coverage of 1996 Summer Olympic Games, Women's Diving Competition.
Des mesures : video projection: 55.88 x 66.04 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997-1998
Matériaux : video projection, mini video projector, tripod, VCR, vinyl floor covering
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Gravity, installation view of “Wave”
ID : 15873
Description: Looped video projection of the First Woman in Space, Valentina Terechkova, waving and smiling from her Russian space capsule. Projected onto an opaque Plexiglas screen suspended from the ceiling. Viewers can watch the flickering black & white image from both sides. Source: Dateline: 1961/62 Into Orbit, produced by ABC News, New Atlantic Productions, 1982.
Des mesures : plexiglass: 33.02 x 22.86 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997-1998
Matériaux : mini video projector, tripod, VCR, plexiglass suspended from ceiling
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Gravity, installation view of “Nostalgia”
ID : 15869
Description: Dancers at The Gateways lesbian bar, London. Video loop comprised of two slow motion sequences: a long shot of a crowd of women dancing; cut to a close-up of a young couple dancing cheek to cheek. Source: The Killing of Sister George, 1974, Director: Robert Aldrich.
Des mesures : video wall projection: 0.2784 x 0.348 m
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997-1998
Matériaux : video wall projection, LCD video projector, VCR
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Duet video still
ID : 15875
Description: A large video image of a figure unbuttoning and buttoning a white shirt is projected into the corner of a gallery space. With headphones, viewers can hear six brief accounts of passing women told by two overlapping voices.
Des mesures : projection, approx.: 0.2088 x 0.2784 m; 0.06264 x 0.08352 m
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997-1999
Matériaux : video projection, sound track on headphones
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Duet
ID : 27313
Description: 1997-1999 [installation documentation, length: 2min 20sec.]
Technical description
A large video image of a figure intermittently unbuttoning and buttoning a white shirt is projected into the corner of a gallery. Fifteen feet away are two unhoused audio speakers playing a sound track of overlapping voices telling brief accounts of passing women. Although there is repetition both in the video image and the audio track, there are subtle changes that occur in the piece as the audio shifts in relation to the image.
[Video Projection] Continuous video loop projected into a corner of a gallery approx. 8' x 6' / LCD Video Projector, VHS deck
[Audio] Continuous audio loop / 6 unhoused full-range speakers or headphones, CD playback deck
Artist's statement
This is a memorial piece about women who, for various social and/or economic reasons, lived their lives disguised as men. Those who assume the clothing, gestures, environments and privileges of men are known as 'passing' women. Although many passing women succeed in living and dying with their biological sex undetected, the stories recounted in Duet are of women whose passing was discovered upon death.
Although passing is often described as a choice women made in order to disguise their gender and/or their sexual preference - a survival strategy rooted in pre-gay liberation times - the women honored in Duet lived from the turn-of-the-century to the mid 1990's. While some artists have recently been interested in celebrating drag as a performative form of queer identity, I am interested in revealing the personal and physical 'costs' of this identity for women and, in particular, lesbians.
This and other video installations by Nina Levitt are distributed by V/Tape, Toronto.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997-1999
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Lexicon, detail of video
ID : 15918
Description: Detail of video (button and rotating text).
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Lexicon, installation view 2 (detail)
ID : 15916
Description: Reference Section, Robarts Library, University of Toronto, April 2000.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : 3
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Lexicon, detail of video
ID : 15917
Description: Detail of video showing someone leafing through Geschlechtskunde (Sexual Knowledge) by Magnus Hirschfield, 1926.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Lexicon, installation view 1
ID : 15915
Description: Reference Section, Robarts Library, University of Toronto, April 2000.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : 3
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Little Breeze
ID : 42688
Description: 2002 [installation documentation, length 3min. 16sec.]
[In collaboration with Nicholas Stedman]
A co-production with The Banff Centre, Banff Alberta
An examination of the ephemeral presence of women spies during World War II. This complex interactive project was shaped from stories of British women's resistance and assumed identities. Viewers become active participants in the gathering of (audio) information and the 'decoding' of video images. Through an intimate and tactile relationship with the technology, the viewer's experience and imagination ultimately shaped the layers of imagery, language and metaphor in Little Breeze.
Technical Description
Components:
Upon entering the gallery, visitors see a large video projection of a sequence of portraits of women made of ASCII (ask-ee) code. Eight suitcases of various sizes and colours are huddled nearby. Signs encourage visitors to pick up the suitcases. Suitcases were left in the gallery wherever visitors were finished using them.
How it works:
Each suitcase is equipped with a microcontroller (Basic Stamp 2) that monitors and responds to a user's interaction:
This and other video installations by Nina Levitt are distributed by V/Tape, Toronto.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2002
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Service Records HS 9/1437 and WO 208/3401
ID : 70884
Description: Source: reproduced with permission from The National Archives of the UK
Des mesures : 4.4196 cm x 0.7690104 m (20 cm x 2.563368 m)
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : 2 ink jet prints
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
view of Parachute (for Hannah Senesh) and Service Records
ID : 70881
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Quonset Hut (for Vera Atkins), suitcase detail
ID : 70873
Description: Sources: audio interviews with Vera Atkins from the Imperial War Museum, London. Selected video sequences from Now It Can Be Told, RAF Film Production, 1946.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : vintage suitcases with custom-built electronics
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Parachute (for Hannah Senesh)
ID : 70880
Des mesures : 7.2 m diameter x 2.4 m height (when inflated)
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : White nylon, vinyl, fans, motion sensor
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Parachute (for Hannah Senesh)
ID : 70876
Des mesures : 7.2 m diameter x 2.4 m height (when inflated)
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : White nylon, vinyl, fans, motion sensor
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Parachute (for Hannah Senesh)
ID : 70877
Des mesures : 7.2 m diameter x 2.4 m height (when inflated)
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : White nylon, vinyl, fans, motion sensor
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Parachute (for Hannah Senesh)
ID : 70878
Des mesures : 7.2 m diameter x 2.4 m height (when inflated)
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : White nylon, vinyl, fans, motion sensor
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Telegrams of Departure
ID : 70882
Description: Source: diary excerpts from Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. (New York: Schocken Books, 1966).
Des mesures : 317.5 x 241.3 cm (50 x 96.52 cm) projection
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : Video loop, 5 minutes
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Telegrams of Departure, video still
ID : 70883
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Parachute (for Hannah Senesh)
ID : 70879
Des mesures : 7.2 m diameter x 2.4 m height (when inflated)
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : White nylon, vinyl, fans, motion sensor
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Quonset Hut (for Vera Atkins), suitcase detail
ID : 70872
Description: Sources: audio interviews with Vera Atkins from the Imperial War Museum, London. Selected video sequences from Now It Can Be Told, RAF Film Production, 1946.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : vintage suitcases with custom-built electronics
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Service Records HS 9/1437 and WO 208/3401
ID : 70886
Description: Source: reproduced with permission from The National Archives of the UK
Des mesures : 4.4196 cm x 0.7690104 m (20 cm x 2.563368 m)
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : 2 ink jet prints
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Service Records HS 9/1437 and WO 208/3401
ID : 70885
Description: Source: reproduced with permission from The National Archives of the UK
Des mesures : 4.4196 cm x 0.7690104 m (20 cm x 2.563368 m)
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : 2 ink jet prints
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Quonset Hut (for Vera Atkins), view inside hut
ID : 70874
Description: Sources: audio interviews with Vera Atkins from the Imperial War Museum, London. Selected video sequences from Now It Can Be Told, RAF Film Production, 1946.
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : Galvanized aluminum, white Plexiglas door
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Full Moon
ID : 70875
Des mesures : 266.7 x 196.85 cm (42 x 78.74 cm) projection
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Matériaux : Video still, full moon dates during WWII, 17 minutes
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Quonset Hut (for Vera Atkins)
ID : 70870
Description: Sources: audio interviews with Vera Atkins from the Imperial War Museum, London. Selected video sequences from Now It Can Be Told, RAF Film Production, 1946.
Des mesures : 5.1 x 3 x 2.4 m
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Quonset Hut (for Vera Atkins)
ID : 70871
Description: Sources: audio interviews with Vera Atkins from the Imperial War Museum, London. Selected video sequences from Now It Can Be Told, RAF Film Production, 1946.
Des mesures : 5.1 x 3 x 2.4 m
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2008
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Gravity
ID : 49325
Description: 1997-1999 [installation documentation, length 3min. 10 sec.]
A meditation on transgression, subjectivity, risk and loss comprised of five elements (3 video projections and 2 audio systems) installed as distinct stations in a darkened room.
Sonar
The sound of a sonar echo permeates the space emitted from a gray metal public address speaker mounted near the ceiling.
Source: digitally created for Gravity.
ceiling mounted PA speaker, amplifier, CD player
Nostalgia
Dancers at The Gateways lesbian bar, London. Video loop comprised of two slow motion sequences: a long shot of a crowd of women dancing; cuts to a close-up of a young couple dancing cheek to cheek.
Source: The Killing of Sister George, 1974, Director: Robert Aldrich.
10' x 8' video wall-projection, LCD video projector, VCR
Spin
Video projection of a sequence of women divers spinning, in slow motion, over a sparkling blue swimming pool. Projected onto a white surface on the floor.
Source: Television coverage of 1996 Summer Olympic Games, Women's Diving Competition.
22' x 26' image, mini video projector, tripod, VCR, vinyl sheet
Wave
Video projection loop of 'the First Woman in Space', Valentina Terechkova, waving and smiling for the camera from her Russian space capsule. Projected onto an opaque Plexiglas screen suspended from the ceiling. Viewers can watch the flickering black & white image from both sides.
Source: Dateline: 1961/62 Into Orbit, produced by ABC News, New Atlantic Productions, 1982.
mini video projector, tripod, VCR, 9' x 13' Plexiglas suspended from ceiling
Aria
Two unhoused audio speakers form a listening station on the wall. The aria Ebben n'andro lontana plays every 2 minutes at low volume (duration = 4:49).
Source: Golden Opera, Decca Record Co., London, 1993, (from the opera La Wally by Alfredo Catalani, sung by Renata Tebaldi).
2, 8' audio speakers, amplifier, CD player
Spatial variations:
This work has been installed in various gallery spaces in both group and solo exhibitions:
This and other video installations by Nina Levitt are distributed by V/Tape, Toronto.
Collection:
Date de réalisation :
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Lexicon
ID : 47754
Des mesures : 1 min 53s
Collection:
Date de réalisation :
Matériaux : vidéo
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Harbour
ID : 49326
Description: 1996 [installation documentation, length 2min. 22sec.]
[A two-part video installation which explores oppositional relations pertaining to lesbian identity.]
Part I consists of a black & white slow motion video sequence played on a monitor. This looped video depicts the interaction between two young women who are looking at a photograph of a man posing at the beach. The potential for reading against a heterosexual construct is available within the particular kind and quality of gestures; a knowing glance...a bond of complicity...a secret contract expressed in the wink of an eye. The clip is taken from Maëdchen in Uniform, 1931 (Director: Leontine Sagan) a German film about the doomed lesbian love affair between a young schoolgirl and her teacher.
Part II consists of a looped video image projected onto a black & white photograph suspended from the ceiling, about 5 feet away from a wall. The video consists of a staged colour sequence montaged with another clip from Maëdchen. The slow motion cycle begins with an extreme close up of a mouth saying the word ?harbor? (there is no audio). Fade to white which dissolves into a film clip from Maëdchen. The film still, also taken from Maëdchen, depicts the protagonist who is the embodiment of transgression and desire in the film. The video image projected onto the suspended photograph spills over onto the rear wall, creating a spatial rupture in the visual field. An essential aspect of Part II is that the viewer exaggerates or bridges the ruptured image by moving at different angles to the projection.
There is no audio in this installation.
This and other video installations by Nina Levitt are distributed by V/Tape, Toronto.
Collection:
Date de réalisation :
Matériaux :
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
