Lauren Kalman Portfolio

Quick Description: Images from 3 installations: Hard Wear 2006 Corpus, Figure, Skate 2008 Projection 2008
Detailed Description:


Hard Wear (Tongue Gilding)
Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location.
Dimensions: 23x34"; Medium: Digital print, laminated on acrylic


Hard Wear (Aural, Oral, Digital Gems)
Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location.
Dimensions: each 23x32"; Medium: Digital prints, laminated on acrylic usi


Hard Wear (Canal Cap)
Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location.
Dimensions: 23x30"; Medium: Digital print, laminated on acrylic


Hard Wear (Oral Rims)
Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location.
Dimensions: each 23x30"; Medium: Digital print, laminated on acrylic


Hard Wear (Oral Rims)
Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location.
Dimensions: loop, 8x12x4"; Medium: Digital video loop, LCD screen, DVD play


Hard Wear (main space and detail: Oral Rims)
Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location.
Dimensions: variable, 4x4x4"; Medium: Shown: images, mirror, surveillance came


Hard Wear (video corridor and detail of Tongue Gilding)
Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location.
Dimensions: variable, loop, 7x11x4?; Medium: Digital video loop, portable DVD player


Hard Wear
Hard Wear is an installation and performance. The installation consists of three sections. One is a main gallery space that houses images, objects and is the live performance space. The second is a dark video corridor leading to the open, light gallery space. The third section is an exterior space with an LCD screen connected to a surveillance camera next to a mirror in the main space. From this screen the performance can be viewed from a remote, detached location.
Dimensions: 10 min; Medium: Performance projected through a surveill


Corpus, Figure, Skate
Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality.
Dimensions: Varaible. As imaged: 18x6" and 18x22" sp; Medium: LCD screens, DVD players, lead covered s


Corpus, Figure, Skate (stills from HD video Figure)
This video is mounted on the ceiling above the viewer. The figure slowly rotates though her legs and the skates do not move. As the figure spins the material of her dress fades between white cotton, lead, and meat. The video is overexposed causing the white dress to blend with the background erasing the torso. Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality
Dimensions: loop, 12x19x4"; Medium: 3 stills from HD digital video mounted o


Corpus, Figure, Skate (stills from HD video Skate)
In this video the figure rotates slowly her body and facial expression aside from blinking remains unchanging. The movement is slightly off from the movement expected from a roller-skating pirouette. The video is overexposed causing the white dress to blend with the background erasing the torso. Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality
Dimensions: loop, 8x12x4"; Medium: 3 stills from HD digital video, portable


Corpus, Figure, Skate
The lead on these objects is pleated to mimic the pleats in the dresses in the videos. Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality
Dimensions: Bed ~36x48x16" chair ~24x20x24"; Medium: Pleated and laminated lead sheet over wo


Corpus, Figure, Skate
This image shows the third video of the installation embedded into the padded walls of the space as well as the pleated fabric that mimics the pleated dresses in the videos. Corpus, Figure, Skate is an installation of videos and sculptural objects that investigates the subconscious desire to reunite physicality with the body despite attempts to repress it. The videos in the installation simultaneously illustrate and deny corporeality.
Dimensions: Varaible. As imaged: 18x6" and 18x22" sp; Medium: LCD screens, DVD players, lead covered s


Projection (Ring)
Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body.
Dimensions: 30x40"; Medium: Digital print, laminated on PVC, gold-pl


Projection (Necklace)
Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body.
Dimensions: 30x40?; Medium: Digital print, laminated on PVC. gold-pl


Projection (Earring)
Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body.
Dimensions: 30x40"; Medium: Digital print, laminated on PVC. gold-pl


Projection (Bracelet)
Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body.
Dimensions: 30x40?; Medium: Digital print, laminated on PVC. gold-pl


Projection (with detail of furniture)
The furniture is coated in a rubber skin and presents growths that are similar to the gold object that each displays. Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body.
Dimensions: variable; Medium: Gold-plated electroformed copper, pearls


Projection (Bracelet)
In the videos the figure rotates slowly as she displays her jewels. Her body moves in and out of perception ans she fades into the underexposed background. Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body.
Dimensions: loop; Medium: 2 stills from HD digital video, portable


Projection (Earring)
In the videos the figure rotates slowly as she displays her jewels. Her body moves in and out of perception ans she fades into the underexposed background. Projection is an installation of images, sculptural objects, and video that blur the boundaries between adornment and disease. The jewelry objects take the form of tumors or cysts. These works investigate the often-corrosive relationship between jewelry, commodity objects, the imaged body, and the physical body. In Projection the format of the images draws from methods employed in medical and advertising imagery. The videos draw from historical medical etchings and lithographs that are allegorical in their approach to describing disease and the body.
Dimensions: loop; Medium: 2 stills from HD digital video, portable