Making God Happy
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“Making God Happy” is part of an 8-piece body of work entitled “This Creature, I Am.” Inspired by Elvis’ rendition of the old time spiritual “Peace in the Valley,” the videos explore the dual nature of a convicted heart, longing for transcendence and clarity amid the desires of the flesh. Elvis sings that he will be “changed from this creature, that I am.” Miner’s work is a contemporary portrait of the age-old conflict of the regenerated soul in the body of mortal man.
Named “Christopher” by his mother, because it means “Christ-bearer”, the artist uses his own religious life-history to confront the presence of faith in a heart prone to wander.
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Christopher Miner (their other films)
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Genre: Experimental |
| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2003 |
| Original Format: Video |
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Length: 00:04:30 |
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Aspect Magazine
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Bill Arning is according to Boston Magazine's 2002 “Best of” issue, the best Curator in greater Boston! He is internationally known as a spirited curator, critic, essayist and educator in contemporary art and culture. Since joining the List Visual Arts Center in 2000 he has organized such critically acclaimed exhibitions as "Inside Space – Experiments in Redefining Rooms", February 2001, and "AA Bronson's Mirror Mirror", 2002, an artistic response to AIDS today, encompassing issues of post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor guilt. "Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude" opening in May, 2003 explores the concept and role of influence in the construction of art history and in the production of new culture. Arning was the chief curator at White Columns Alternative Arts Space, New York, from 1985-1996, where he organized the first New York exhibitions for many significant American and international artists of the period.
As a writer on art and culture, Arning's essays have been published in Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Art in America, World Art, Trans, Polliester, Bomb, and Honcho magazines and various catalogues for museums, alternative spaces and commercial galleries around the world. Recent essays include “Brief Encounter on the Piers” in Tony Feher, Bard College Museum and “The Sleazy Allure of Chris Burden” for Henrik Olesen – Sexuelle Zwischenstadien, Fabricious Projects, Copenhagen. His article Elaine Reichek's Rewoven Histories, was included in the Phaidon Book anthology Art and Feminism, in 2001. His essay “Everybody's Gay, (If Kurt Cobain said it, it must be true)” was published in Semiotexte anthology Imported: a Reading Seminar, ed. Rainer Gahnal. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, N.Y.U. Graduate School of the Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design. Since arriving in Boston Arning is a frequent invited visitor to both The School of the Museum of fine Arts and The Massachusetts College of Art, as well as many other area schools. |
This film has never been screened
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