With great insight, L.A.-based artist Tran T. Kim-Trang has been completing her ambitious Blindness Series, a sextet of video tapes examining sight and its metaphors. This has led Tran to such metaphorical thickets as blepharoplasty, the surgery used to "correct" Asian eyes, and the gender-specific nature of "sighted" sexuality. Tran's works combine multiple styles of address (journalistic, fictive, anecdotal, and theoretical) to offer an open field of perspectives. ocularis: Eye Surrogates (1997, 21 mins) begins by collecting messages of fear and fantasy about video surveillance via an 800 phone number. These statements are then woven into a narrative that concerns the way surveillance technology penetrates the everyday. Tran's interest here is not specifically privacy, but the construction of our "insatiable voyeurism." ekleipsis (Premiere, 1998, 22:28 mins), Tran's newest addition to the Blindness Series, is centered around a group of Cambodian women who are hysterically blind. The tape traces the history of hysteria, paralleled by the Cambodian Civil War. How we choose to see or not see cultural upheaval is at the heart of this unusual video work. Tran will also screen excerpts from aletheia (1992), operculum (1993), and kore (1994).-Steve Seid