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JoJo Whilden

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Cars, planes, driving and travelling are persistent themes in my work. In practice I primarily use cameras, time based media and sometimes myself in my work. The work attempts to recognize or locate memories or perceptions or feelings in the space between here and there, in the everyday and the banal. In an imaginary place called circadia, which is a place based on ourbodies rhthyms in time. There is also a diaristic quality in a lot of the work, as it relates personally to me. Much of my work is also in color. I am currently completing a 30 second video composed of 900 still photographs.
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Image 1 - STILL FROM BLACK & WHITE SUPER 8 VIDEO 'TIRING'2003 - 90 SEC, NO SOUND. - A chocolate donut masquerading as a rubber tire rolls along, falls over, gets up and rolls along again. Through reptition of the donut rolling and falling over and over again, the artist addresses the cycle of living. The title is a play on the actual tire and the tiring yet essentially optimistic quality of life.
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Image 2, 4 , 5 and 6 - PHOTOGRAPHS FROM BLACK & WHITE SERIES CALLED 'SKID MARKS'. THESE PHOTOS AND MORE WERE SHOT OVER TWO YEAR PERIOD 2001 - 2003. THEY ARE PRINTED IN TWO SIZES (39 X 39 INCHES AND 19 X 19 INCHES). - 'Skid Marks' is an homage to drawing and driving. The photographs formallyand aesthetically depict ubiquitous tire tracks left on pavement. The framing and formality of the compositions, as well as the richness of the medium of black-and-white photography, suggest images of beauty, and at the same time the marks on the road represent something potentially more fearful. The skid marks are temporary shadow-like traces on the ground, similar to photographic images, which are merely silver tracks left on celluloid. Both reference moments in time, trigger memory, and offer access to the trauma and desire of events past. The aesthetic structure of this series looks back to the great Modernist photographers of the last century(Weston, Adams, etc.), who found images of beauty in nature�s forms. These forms are found in the fleeting qualities of the new century: today one simply whips past nature in a speeding car. Inspiration for this project also derived from contemporary literature and cinema (most
directly J.G. Ballard�s novel, Crash, which was later translated to film by David Cronenburg) and from many hours spent driving the car on the highway.
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Image 3 - STILL FROM BLACK & WHITE SUPER 8 VIDEO CALLED 'JUMPING FOR JOY', 1999, - 2 1/2 MINUTES WITH SOUND. - A naked woman jumps up and down on a bed for two and a half minutes before she collapses from auto-erotic exhaustion and ecstasy. Originally created for NoLiveGIrls peep show held at the Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle (2001). The length of the video is equated to the average length of a masturbation experience in a peep show booth.
JOJO WHILDEN
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