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Penumbra Blind
Bird of Paradise (part 3) with scenes from Four Walls (John Cage, 1944)
Wunderkabinet- excerpt / Pamela Z with Matt Brubeck and Christina McPhee
Press
bioglyphs bocas del toro /research proposal
BIOGLYPHS BOCAS DEL TORO: a film and photography project for the Boca del Toro Research Station, Panama
“queer relational” on -empyre- july 2009 / conversation / part 1
From christina at christinamcphee.net Fri Jul 3 07:28:52 2009
From: christina at christinamcphee.net (Christina McPhee)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:28:52 -0700
Subject: [-empyre-] New on -empyre- July 2009: “Queer Relational”
Please join us in July 2009 on -empyre- soft-skinned space….
“Queer Relational”
with -empyre-’s special guests Micha Cardenas (US), Marc Leger (CA), Virginia Solomon (US/
CA), Tara Mateik (US),… Read on »
christina mcphee at open space art cologne 2011 : interview
Vernissage.tv review
Teorema Ritournelle, HZ Journal, Stockholm
HZ Journal, #15, September 2010
edited by Sachiko Hayashi
La Conchita mon amour (monograph)
La Conchita mon amour is a site study of memorial shrine-building in the aftermath of a deadly debris that occurred in 2005 in the town of La Conchita, California, north of Los Angeles. Photomontage images reach through obsessive layers of visual data towards an integration beyond the material facts of the site. The large-scale images that result from this process are topologies of absence and recovery.
bare life and the traumatic landscape: interview Christina McPhee with Amy Wiley
interview HTML http://christinamcphee.net/la_conchita/texts/barelife-traumaticlandscape.html
interview PDF
Spectacle of Seismicity : Leonardo April 2010
Ella Mudie, “The Spectacle of Seismicity,” Leonardo (MIT Press Journals), volume 43, issue 2, April 2010.
Representations of earthquakes in visual art have the potential to function as spectacles (defined as striking or dramatic public displays); this in turn provokes consideration of how viewers construct meaning from such representations. The author examines the work of a number of artists arguably concerned with going beyond spectacular representations in their portrayals of earthquake… Read on »
‘iraqi-eye’ : blog review @ Lipsticktracez Los Angeles
Christina McPhee// Iraqi Eye// an artists view on War
Check out San Francisco based artist Christina McPhee. Her seductive photomontages make us forgot the horror and tragedy of a world at war.
I started the image bank for “iraqi eye” in late 2003 and the beginning of 2004, at the… Read on »
BOMBblog: Christina McPhee interview with Mel Potter
Art
Christina McPhee
By Melissa Potter Oct 26, 2009
Throughout the ’80s, Christina McPhee used drawing and painting to investigate landscape and its relationship to time through work at archaeological and geological sites. By the mid-’90s, she began new media explorations of human technology and the environment by mining traumatic memory patterns and what they might uncover about geomorphologies in sites such… Read on »
La Conchita mon amour: Sharon Lin Tay, Undisclosed Recipients (Studies in Documentary Film, 2008)
undisclosed-recipients-sharonlintay Dr Tay (Middlesex University, London) advances discussion of documentary beyond claims to realism and documentary truth towards what Trinh T. Minh-ha calls ‘boundary events.’ Tay argues that digital video, editing and compositing expose the limitations of visual evidence to represent trauma.
video still, La Conchita N=amour, 2008