Charisse Baker http://charissebaker.com/home Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:57:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en STICKS: IN COLLABORATION WITH NATASHA SOLOMONS / 2009- 15 MINS / THE ARENA – OXFORD BROOKES In a dimly lit room, two initiators place their fingers on either end of a thin stick and apply pressure in order to hold it off the ground. They walk onto a clay circle in the centre of the room, introducing movement while balancing and exploring the weight of

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]]> http://charissebaker.com/home/rd/sticks-in-collaboration-with-natasha-solomons-2009-15-mins-the-arena-oxford-brookes/ CLAY: AN INSTRUMENT / 2010 / THE ARENA – OXFORD BROOKES A plastic window in one side of a cardboard box allows viewers to look inside at a centrally placed mound of terra cotta covering a lit torch. Two cutout corners on opposite sides of the box make it possible to reach inside. Self-elected participants reach into the box and begin

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]]> http://charissebaker.com/home/rd/clay-an-instrument-2010/ MIRRORING: A PROCESS IN PERCEPTION / 2010 / MA STUDIO – OXFORD BROOKES The underpinnings of how we view ourselves and others, and ourselves in relation to others are made visible in an intimate and sometimes challenging process of seeing. A circle configuration with chairs facing one another is arranged with mirrors set up behind the chairs. Participants are told that they

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]]> http://charissebaker.com/home/rd/mirroring/ HARVESTING TIME: A COLLECTIVE  /  05.2010-09.2010 / IN & AROUND THE CITY OF OXFORD I imagined: an organism, without a director. A way to push personal boundaries, multiply potentialities. An alliance based neither on politics nor ego. Non-hierarchical creation and engagement with others resulting in new thought, new action, mobilization.

Aims: individual, collective and project sustain and enhance one another. Projects realized by

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]]> http://charissebaker.com/home/harvesting/harvesting-time-a-collective%c2%a0-%c2%a0-05-2010-09-2010-in-around-the-city-of-oxford/ LOST JOURNEYS: AN ON-GOING COLLABORATION / INTERNATIONAL   The Lost Journeys Travel Agency is a collaborative project of five Oxford and London based artists—Clare, Charisse, Jo, Nimmi and Richard—that asks the questions: Is there a journey you didn’t take, but always wish you had? And what if you found something on a journey you never had planned?

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]]> http://charissebaker.com/home/work-lost-journeys/lost-journeys-an-on-going-collaboration-international-%c2%a0/ MOVING IMAGE: FINDING CONNECTIVE PRACTICE IN VIDEO / 2010 / INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS
ranging from the anticipated—transforming city landscapes at night—to the unexpected: a revealing discussion and impromptu reversal of the roles of filmmaker and audience in an underpass.

PALMS
It began in a dark alley. Outside the Portabello Film Festival in London, with a tiny projector that clipped onto my

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]]> http://charissebaker.com/home/moving-image/moving-image-finding-connective-practice-in-video-2010-international/ MICRODOCS / DOCUMENTATION / MOVING IMAGE *Video coming soon.

These video enquiries as a whole reflect an effort to make films in a democratic, non-hierarchical way that diverges from traditional filmmaking practices. A move away from clearly defined roles is implemented in order to give a sense of ownership to the individuals involved in each film’s creation,

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]]> http://charissebaker.com/home/micro/microdocs-documentation-moving-image/ QUESTIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT In June, 2010, first nations municipalities in Haida Gwaii, an ecologically unique group of islands located off the northwest coast of British Columbia, made an unanimous statement in opposition to the coastal tanker traffic that will result if Enbridge’s proposed 1,170 km ‘Northern Gateway’ pipeline is realized. The proposed pipeline will flow more than half a million barrels…

]]> http://charissebaker.com/home/appendix/questions-of-sustainability-statement/ PASSING: A 12 MONTH RESPONSE / 09.2009-09.2010 / INTERNATIONAL 2009 DEC 5 / EXPERIMENTAL MOVING IMAGE AND AUDIO INSTALLATION / THE ARENA-OXFORD BROOKES / 07:05 MINS

+ 2010 / ENCOUNTERS / INTERVENTION / WITH LOST JOURNEYS / PALMS / FRIEZE ART FAIR

Can memories of the deceased captured by technologies like text messaging and Facebook trap us

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