Vivienne Dick's films privilege women's bodies. Across her 1970s Super-8 works, women's movements, postures, words, and goals rise to the fore. All this is enacted in a vibrant visual and aural New York City landscape. The streets, as in She Had Her Gun All Ready, are inhabited, and imbued with the excitement of colors, sounds and rhythms of a lived place. In Dick's recent video work, the digital image now elicits a sense of alternate place, full of color and sensuality. The women, often older, or in transition, address a new world of truth, and of the imagination. In films like Augenblick, the tactile, the mundane, and the super-real co-exist. And it is in the presence of the women that we engage with our changing world.
- Vera Dika
In person: Vivienne Dick and Vera Dika
"One of the most important film-makers Ireland has produced."
- The Irish Times
"From her beginnings in the late 1970s New York No Wave scene to more recent explorations of emerging protest movements in Cairo and Dublin, the Irish artist's films capture these charged circumstances without ever becoming merely records of her surroundings: instead, they are laden with dashes of drama, poetry, critical theory and historical reflection. It is never enough to just be there." - Chris Clarke,Art Monthly
Funded in part by the Ostrovsky Family Fund. Curated by Vera Dika, Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud, as part of the Jack H. Skirball Series.