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In a multimedia installation and web site project
"new baby?", Marta Deskur questions the significance
of family today and the conflicting issues this question addresses. As
a socio-economic and political investigation, family has always been central
to her work. For "new baby? (family in New York)", Deskur initially
placed an advertisement in the Voice to interview "people who live
alone, couples with no children, couples of different race and religion,
gay and lesbian couples and singles, pregnant women, women who have terminated
their pregnancies, people who have chosen not to have children".
She selected 14 individuals, submitted them to a questionnaire of identical
questions dealing with this subject and then photographed them in her
studio. The web site that she has created sums up all of this research
and invites the viewer to pursue these discussions. Projected on the wall
of an enclosed space, viewers are invited to enter one by one a confessional-like-space
and interact directly over the web site. Location One gratefully acknowledges The Trust for Mutual Understanding for their invaluable support of the International Residency Program. For interview with Marta Deskur about her project, "newbaby?", click here To email Marta Deskur: demarta@wp.pl
Website created by Marta Deskur & Ashley Hunt
Special thanks to: LOCATION ONE: Especially to; Claire Montgomery, Executive Director & Drazen Pantic Co-Director/Internet Hank Stahler Architect of space, light and time Nathalie Angles, Taisha Pagget, Maggie Suisman, Heather Wagner, Jocelyn Ruggiero and Francois Bucher. POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE in NY: Pawel Potoroczyn, Director & Monika Fabijanska, Deputy Director and... Jan Palarczyk (for the use of his head) And the all of the participants in the project new baby? The project is dedicated to my grandfather, my mother and my son. Chodzic po linie tak wysoko nad ziemia to oczywiscie rzecz niezwykla…a jednak sztuki chodzenia po linie nigdy nie traktowano zbyt powaznie Paul Auster linoskoczek …idee wspolczesnej podrozy jako szczytu komfortu I bezpieczenstwa dawno juz pogrzebal czas, zajecie zas miejsca w odrzutowcu - po przejsciu rozmaitych elektronicznych kontroli I rewizji, majacych zapobiec porwaniom — powoduje, ze odradza sie co do joty dawne poczucie niepewnosci zwiastujacej przygody, a w przyszlosci zapewne bedzie ono rosnac…….Niepewnosc to kluczowe slowo: pojecie to trzebawlaczyc w ogolne ramy obaw millenarystycznych: w krotkim czasie nastapi koniec swiata, a ostateczna katastrofa polozy koniec tysiacleciu. Umberto Eco Semiologia zycia codziennego
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