PAinting With the Man
part of the MAE- Motion Aftereffect series
Video | Motion Capture | Performance:
Freya Björg Olafson
Music: Mister Wallace https://soundcloud.com/wallacewallacewallace
HD video | 3m37s
Installation or screening
2017
‘Painting with the Man’ was developed through the use of a camera-less motion capture suit worn by Freya Olafson. The work references Yves Klien’s Anthropométries 1960 series; wherein Klein engaged nude women as 'human paint brushes'. Dressed in bow-tie and suit Klein would conduct the women as they covered themselves (in his patented color ‘International Klein Blue’) and made imprints of their bodies on canvas. In ‘Painting with the Man’ Olafson uses a digital readymade generic male 3D body to imprint the canvas / screen.
Contact Freya for the password to view the work online
Distributed by: VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
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Freya acknowledges the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council, Thomas Wester and the AR/VR Artist Research Residency Pilot organized by Oregon Story Board, Eyebeam and Upfor Gallery in the creation of this work.
Screening History
2020 Boreal Festival - Akureyri, Iceland
2019 27th Quinzena de Dança de Almada - International Dance Festival exhibition Sept 21 to Oct 13 - Portugal
2019 Physical Cinema Festival - Reykjavík, Iceland
2019 Seyr Festival - International Festival of Screen-Movement and Media Arts - Tehran, Iran (date TBD)
2018 7. International Dancefilmfestival Brussels - Belgium
2018 21st Annual Antimatter [Media Art] Festival - Victoria, British Colombia
2018 Videomedeja Festival Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina screening - Novi Sad, Serbia
2018 LINOLUEM Contemporary Animation and Media Arts Festival screening - Kiev, Ukraine
2018 GIV - Groupe Intervention Vidéo ‘27e Vidéos De Femmes Dans Le Parc’ screening - Montréal, Qc
2018 Dunlop Art Gallery ‘URL:IRL’ curated by Blair Fornwald, Jennifer Matotek, and Wendy Peart - exhibition Regina
2018 Mile Zero Dance 'Reeling: Dance On Screen' - Edmonton
2017 Moving Bodies Festival ‘Painting With The Man’ screening - Varna, Bulgaria
2017 WUFF - Winnipeg Underground Film Festival ‘ Painting With The Man’ - exhibition at Poolside Gallery - Wpg, Mb
2017 ForthWith Festival for Experimental Art & Technology ‘Painting With The Man’ - exhibition Winnipeg, Manitoba