Serena Lin Bush
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Houston Texas USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Serena Lin Bush has been working with video installation and animation media since 1995. Her work, influenced by painting and architecture, has been exhibited in both art spaces and film festivals. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, she currently works in Houston, Texas. Bush has recently created video installations at Lawndale Art Center, Women and Their Work Gallery, ArtScan Gallery, DiverseWorks Art Space, Winter Street Art Center, and Maryland Art Place. Screenings include THE TERRITORY (Texas PBS), Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Drexel University/DUTV Cable 54, Independent Eye (Maryland Public Television), image|architettura in movimento (Florence, Italy), and the New York Digital Salon. Bush received a BFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland. Filmography/Awards Info: This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
Microcinema Interview/Article:
Interviewed by Patrick Kwiatkowski, April 2003 1. Why did you select this style of filmmaking when you set out to make your art? What are the boundaries between multi and single channel video presentations? [Serena Lin Bush] My filmmaking has been largely influenced by my background in painting, and has been driven by the fact that I work primarily in an installation format rather than a screening one. In my work, I am motivated to present the video image in unusual or unique viewing positions, compelling the viewer to experience the moving image in an unfamiliar way. Multi-channel presentations are an interesting format because they allow an artist to present experiences as they occur in actuality -- they are multisensory, multi-directional, and a viewer must choose what to focus on and what to filter into peripheral experience. Separate channels can exist as independent entities, sometimes having an overt dialogue with each other, but other times only having an association with each other, with the viewer providing the bridge. 2. Try to help us understand why or how you feel your work is unique from other moving image artists? [Serena Lin Bush] I don't try to be unique, simply honest and personal. 3. How important is telling a story in your works? Please explain as much as possible. [Serena Lin Bush] The films I make are experiential and associational, but not necessarily narrative. The subject matter is typically the space of a small, brief moment that is expanded and explored. For the reason, narrative isn't of primary importance in the works themselves, though an implied narrative may provide context for the particular moment examined in the film. 5. How do your installations relate to your own life and experiences? [Serena Lin Bush] All my installations are rooted in personal experience, though recontextualized, abstracted, and in some ways genericized. Both the installations and the films within them explore themes of "experience" -- physical/mental reflexes, heightened emotions, or hampered senses. 6. Who would you want to see your films at a special screening if you had the choice of all living and dead? Why? [Serena Lin Bush] Good question - though I don't think I have a good answer. Off the top of my head, I'd like to have some of my influences there: Ann Hamilton, Jose Saramgo, Oliver Sacks. 7. Do you use a special process to make your art? [Serena Lin Bush] Since my films develop in tandem with a physical installation, they often spring out of sculptural and sometimes architectural ruminations. I am always thinking of the presence of the finished moving image within space, within objects. 8. Is there anything else that you would like to tell us? THANKS |
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