ZeroPointTwo, 2005 - 18:00 (video, color, silent)
Thea Farhadian & Heike Liss
ZeroPointTwo, a video collaboration between Armenian-American sound artist Thea Farhadian and German visual artist Heike Liss presents a poetic and simultaneously disturbing account of a woman having her head shaved. The reading of the work moves between states of ordinary consciousness and the collective unconsciousness. Metaphoric, cultural, political, historical, aesthetic and religious connotations of head shavings trigger images of monks, skinheads, soldiers, cancer patients, witches and the victims of concentration camps in the viewer’s mind. Filmed in real time, ZeroPointTwo invites the audience to enter an intimate and complex ontological space.
Heike Liss was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. She studied Ethnology, and Social Anthropology at the University of Tübingen. In 2002 she received her Master of Fine Arts from Mills College. Her work has been shown in Europe and Canada, as well as in North and South America and she is the recipient of a 2001 Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship (San Francisco), as well as a 2002 Fellowship at The Photography Institute (New York City). She currently works in video, photography and site-specific installation and public intervention projects. She also acts as a curator, most recently for the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg and The Lab, San Francisco. Heike Liss lives in California and Germany with her husband and their children.Previous Screenings:
- Shoah Film Collection, Cologne, Germany, 2010
- Meridian Gallery, San Francisco 2006
- Armenian Film Festival, Delancey Theater, San Francisco, 2006
- New Media Arts Festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia, 2005
