Video

Subtle Structures (2008)

Subtle Structures combines performative, relational exchanges and performance before the camera to produce this documentary influenced video. Having compiled ten audio interviews with Concordia video students and dept. staff on the subject of family, the resulting aural montage accompanies this visual landscape: a repeated struggle to build a house of cards. Attempting to depict the challenges of sustaining a "subtle structure" through the overlapping of myriad stories and the patient struggle to build, the video creates a palpable, almost savoury tension, while proposing a state of refined patience and (self) compassion in the listening and in the doing - one that simultaneously fills the viewer with anticipation, curiosity, trepidation, and hope.

Oilers (2007)

Using Vince Tinguely's text Oilers as a point of departure, this 8 minute videopoem combines a series of small, intimate, awkward interactions (between Stanton and a toy Hummer) along with an incisive, lively, politically charged poetic piece about our addiction to oil, written and recorded by Tinguely.

I Am Not Afraid of Big Words (2007)

And what about our relationship to language? A disjointed treatise based on a long-standing phobia. Using inter-textual narrative, and mostly static sequences this short "poetic" text tests memory and seeks an hypothesis in order to make sense of an "irrational fear."

Moving Fruit (2007)

And what about recurring obsessions? A runaway still life doesn't get too far on the moving sidewalk of life.

Watch Moving Fruit (1:11)

Home Bathroom Hotel (2007)

And what about inadvertent product placement? A chance to relax at home in the dog bowl wash basin.

Watch Home Bathroom Hotel (1:18)  

SPLIT: the second half (2000, parts 1, 2 and 3)

And what about the daily contradictions? SPLIT: the second half is a trilogy of short performance videos based on texts that were initially written for the one-woman stage show, SPLIT.

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Part 1: Golden List
Golden List questions the politics of jobs, 'work' and the notion of constant production by situating perpetual motion at the forefront, while the voice-over pontificates on the role that artistic practice plays within the rubrics of 'work'.

Part 2: Je Mens
Je Mens explores the nature of storytelling, the inherent fictionalization in the telling of the story and the story as a means to bind or bury oneself in one's self-perceived idea of the 'truth'.

Part 3: Salt in the Wound
Disclosure, flow and transformation are the major pre-occupations of Salt in the Wound. The main figure, seen to slowly unravel her exterior self, sets herself adrift, moving alone in an unknown direction (away from her past?), then leading others along with her, to join her on her uncharted journey.

From SPLIT: The Second Half, (Part 3, Salt in the Wound)

Watch an excerpt from SPLIT: the second half at Saatchi Online (8:45)