May 1 – 31, 2005 / Penny Lane, “The Waiting Room”
Fifth exhibition in the Performing Video series.

Presented at the Corner Brook Women’s Centre, 2 Carmen Ave., Corner Brook, NL. (709) 639-8522.

A woman is trapped in an ever-changing narrative about expectation and motherhood. She continually waits: for someone to call her, for the doctor, for the results of a pregnancy test, for a baby to cry, and so on. Lane focuses on the clichés of femininity and motherhood in a manner that suggests the domesticity of 1960s-era Good Housekeeping.

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In 312 Online:
Rheim Alkadhi, “Demonstration: Strangulation of the linguistic impulse / Performability of the resistant character”.

An exotic chicken is being strangled by some golden arches, but a performer approaches with some shears…

“This short experimental work integrates sculpture and performance in a digital framework to affect a visual critique of cultural imperialism. An exotic chicken—its chest bearing the embroidered words No thank you, I've had enough—is strangled by the workings of some golden arches. A performer—herself thus consigned—severs the strangehold using a pair of shears, then reappears with a picket bearing linguistic characters.”— Rheim Alkadhi

Rheim Alkadhi is the unlikely product of an Iraqi father and an American mother. In a practice that includes new media as well as manual disciplines, she conveys desires and dangers of intercultural identity within the expanding, potentially explosive terrain of visual and political culture. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.