seize/duplicate\repeat, single channel digital video, duration: 11:06 min., 2010.
The brain and body react in unmediated ways to trauma. In the project, seize/duplicate\repeat, Wood and Bisbee-Durlam perform repetitive movement and laborious action against external parameters and challenges to examine, mimic, and poetically reinterpret the ways that the human brain and body react to extreme events and damage, whether psychological or physical. Planned and unplanned movement is taken to exhaustive degrees as metaphor for the various hang-ups, stunted psychological growth, and trauma that individuals possess.
Jody Wood
Jody Wood received her MFA in Expanded Media from the University of Kansas in 2009. She has exhibited in Seattle, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and New York City at venues including Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art, The Spencer Museum of Art, and D’adamo/Woltz Gallery, and her work has been awarded funding grants from the Spencer Museum of Art and the Multidisciplinary Research Building in Lawrence, KS. Wood was a PONCHO recipient of a one-year artist-in-residency scholarship in Sculpture at Pratt Fine Art Center in 2004 and has been selected for an upcoming Culture Push artist residency in Brooklyn, NY summer of 2011.
Mike Bisbee-Durlam
Mikel Bisbee-Durlam received his MFA from the University of South Florida in 2006 and previously he attended the University of Northern Iowa and Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Mikel has shown and performed at The Weddings Presents in Tokyo, Musee d’Art Contemporain in Marseille, Locust Projects in Miami, and New General Catalog in Brooklyn. He was an artist in residence at Vector Gallery in Romania, and has had solo exhibitions in Chicago, Anchorage, AK and in Iowa. Since 2000, Mikel has been part of the art collaborative duo The Fluff Construct with artist Ethan Kruszka of MN.
