I LOVE THIS GUY: Jacolby Satterwhite Using video, 3-D animation, electronic devices and elaborate handmade costumes, Jacolby Satterwhite uses his body to confront issues related to gender politics, imagined worlds and digital life. While in his performances and videos Satterwhite references a variety of art practices—including Surrealism, “outsider” art and postmodern dance—his influences are as familial as they are artistic. He culls from hundreds of drawings created by his mother, Patricia Satterwhite, and uses them as catalysts to imagine his alternate digital universe. To create his videos, he digitally traces her drawings and then transforms them into 3-D animations. Next he dances in front of a green screen, drawing on movement vocabularies from both staged dance and vogueing. Satterwhite’s live performances—marathon sessions that span six to ten hours—are also influenced by these drawings, which alternate between popular dance and a shared secret visual language.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:21:45 +0000
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