* HOMOMORPHY *
> rebecca baron & adele horne >
Vladimir Nabokov describes mimicry in butterflies as a phenomenon displaying an “artistic perfection usually associated with man-wrought things.” Camouflage and mimicry upset the dichotomies of nature / artifice, true nature / outward semblance, truth / deception, natural / false. We will create a cluster of video and mixed media works that reflect on instances of camouflage and mimicry found in the environment in and around Los Angeles. Orchids that smell like other things will be paired with their olfactory doubles: cinnamon, Necco wafers, naugahyde. A video about Catalina Island’s bald eagle sanctuary will show the birds nesting on plastic eggs while their real, DDT-damaged eggs are incubated in a San Francisco laboratory. In a two-channel video installation, the video images of two actors will face one another as they mimic one another’s facial expressions and vocalizations. In the spirit of the science fair (or butterfly collection), a collection of photographs documenting other instances of human- and nature-wrought camouflage and mimicry will be pinned on a board, and added to throughout the gardenLAb experiment. Visitors are invited to contribute photos of sightings of their own.
> bios >
Rebecca is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. Her award-winning experimental and documentary films have been screened extensively in the US and abroad (including Rotterdam, Whitney Biennial, New York Film Festival, CinÈmathËque FranÁaise, Oberhausen, Viennale). She is on the faculty at CalArts School of Film/Video and is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Adele Horne is a film and video artist living in Los Angeles.