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More Real Than Reality Itself

A. L. Steiner

2014 00:53:55 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

A.L. Steiner’s video More Real Than Reality Itself expands the structures of documentary works while challenging its conventional reliance on linear narratives. This critique takes shape through Steiner’s reconsideration of the history of political activism and its representations — configuring a story that emphasizes the embodied, romantic aspects of activism rather than a singular, dominant history. Moving outward from Steiner’s family histories, the project traces the biographies of other individuals involved in social justice and the environmental and labor movements to offer a complex document of the long, continuing trajectory of activism.

Featuring Rita 'Bo' Brown, Carla Cloer, Ericka Huggins, Miya Masaoka and Laurie Weeks. Music by Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, Narcissister + Earth Masters, Mamalama, planningtorock, The Julie Ruin and Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ. Appearances by Rachel Berks, Leidy Churchman, Zackary Drucker, Nicole Eisenman, Anna Sew Hoy, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Melissa Logan, Lee Maida, MPA, Elizabeth Orr, taisha paggett and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. Animation by Aimee Goguen. Sound engineering by Bo Boddie + Craig Wedren.

About A. L. Steiner

A.L. Steiner utilizes constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, performance, writing and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a skeptical queer ecofeminist androgyne. Steiner is co-curator of Ridykeulous, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), a collective member of Chicks on Speed, and collaborates with numerous writers, performers, designers, activists and artists. She is MFA Faculty in Visual Arts at Bard College, Yale University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Steiner is based in Los Angeles and New York, and is featured in permanent collections such as The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Marieluise Hessel Collection of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum and The Museum of Modern Art. She is represented by Deborah Schamoni Gallerie in Munich and Koenig & Clinton in New York, and is the recipient of the 2015 Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, The 2015-2016 Berlin Prize and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2017 Grants to Artists award.