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Wednesday, Mar 5, 1997
Unruly Fan, Unruly Artist: Recent Videoworks by Sherry Millner
Artist in Person In her many caustically humorous videoworks, Sherry Millner inventively critiques the conflation of public and private space. The private terrain of family, romance, and sex is revealed to be infiltrated by public ideology-colonial policy suffuses a child's language acquisition, the nuclear family is configured as a military squad. The Art Of Protective Coloration (1992, 16 mins) looks at the origins of military camouflage, citing its inspiration in the early Cubist movement. But Millner goes beyond these avant-garde roots to discover sexual kinks camouflaged as a weapons fetish. Wet Palms (1997, 20 mins) uses the metaphor of turbulence to track the consequences of disorder in everyday life. Following an automobile accident, a young working-class woman is jarred loose from her world of media-induced fantasy. In Unruly Fan, Unruly Star (1996, 16 mins), Millner casts herself as a fan whose life has an uncanny similarity to that of Roseanne Barr's televised replica. When Millner visits the set of Roseanne, the "excess" of fan and star meets in a comic finale that threatens life as we know it. Also shown: Throwaway (Sherry Millner, Ernest Larsen, 1996, 5 mins)-Steve Seid
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