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'''Sadie Benning''' is a [[video]] maker, [[visual artist]], and [[musician]].
'''Sadie Benning''' is a [[video]] maker, [[visual artist]], and [[musician]].


She first made her name in the early [[1990s]] as a teenage video maker from [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]. Her earliest works, made from the time she was 15, were shot with the Fisher-Price [[Pixelvision]] camera, which recorded pixellated, black and white video images onto standard audio cassettes. The majority of her shorts combined performance, experimental narrative, handwriting, and cut-up music to explore, among other subjects, gender and sexuality. Her work was twice included in the [[Whitney Museum|Whitney]] [[Biennial]].
She first made her name in the early [[1990s]] as a teenage video maker from [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]].{{fact|date= April 2008}} Her earliest works, made from the time she was 15, were shot with the Fisher-Price [[Pixelvision]] camera, which recorded pixellated, black and white video images onto standard audio cassettes. The majority of her shorts combined performance, experimental narrative, handwriting, and cut-up music to explore, among other subjects, gender and sexuality. Her work was twice included in the [[Whitney Museum|Whitney]] [[Biennial]].


Later in the decade, she co-founded [[Le Tigre]], the feminist post-punk band whose members include ex-[[Bikini Kill]] singer/guitarist [[Kathleen Hanna]] and [[zinester]] [[Johanna Fateman]]. She has since left the band.
Later in the decade, she co-founded [[Le Tigre]], the feminist post-punk band whose members include ex-[[Bikini Kill]] singer/guitarist [[Kathleen Hanna]] and [[zinester]] [[Johanna Fateman]]. She has since left the band.

Revision as of 13:16, 4 April 2008

Sadie Benning is a video maker, visual artist, and musician.

She first made her name in the early 1990s as a teenage video maker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[citation needed] Her earliest works, made from the time she was 15, were shot with the Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera, which recorded pixellated, black and white video images onto standard audio cassettes. The majority of her shorts combined performance, experimental narrative, handwriting, and cut-up music to explore, among other subjects, gender and sexuality. Her work was twice included in the Whitney Biennial.

Later in the decade, she co-founded Le Tigre, the feminist post-punk band whose members include ex-Bikini Kill singer/guitarist Kathleen Hanna and zinester Johanna Fateman. She has since left the band.

Her father is experimental filmmaker James Benning.

In 2004 Bill Horrigan curated a retrospective of her works on video. In 2006, in collaboration with Solveig Nelson, she created Play Pause - a two-screen projected video installation. It was debuted at the Wexner in 2007 as part of the exhibition, "Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation." In September 2007 "Play Pause" was exhibited at the Dia Center in NYC. [1] Concurrent with the Dia installation, the collaboratively run Orchard Gallery exhibited her abstract drawings, video installation, wall sculptures, and "play/pause" records in the solo show, "Form of...a waterfall."[2] Two works from this exhibition were included in the 2007 White Columns Annual. [3]

Works

Play Pause (2006)

Aerobicide (1998) video clip for Julie Ruin, 4 min.

Flat is Beautiful (1998) 50 min. (costarring Mark Ewert)

German Song (1995) 5 min.

The Judy Spots (1995) 11 min.

Girlpower (1992) 15 min.

It Wasn't Love (1992) 20 min.

A Place Called Lovely (1991) 14 min.

If Every Girl Had A Diary (1990) 6 min.

Jollies (1990) 11 min.

Me and Rubyfruit (1990) 6 min.

Living Inside (1989) 6 min.

A New Year (1989) 6 min.


References

  1. ^ "Sadie Benning: Play Pause, 2006". Dia Art Foundation. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
  2. ^ "Form of a waterfall. Sadie Benning". Orchard47. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
  3. ^ "Looking Back: The White Columns Annual". White Columns. Retrieved 2007-12-19.