2nd person and me.
Tirtza Even will talk about conversation as a tool for crafting an ongoing personal story. Over the last twenty years Even has been developing a language for communicating social/political realities in visual media, through almost imperceptible digital manipulation of slow and extended recorded moments. Using a complex network of fractured depictions, and subtle digital interventions, and ranging from a two-channel installation about juveniles incarcerated for life without parole, to an experimental documentary on Even’s childhood apartment-building in Jerusalem as it exposes the repressive manifestations of Israel’s psychological/national concept of Defense, Even’s work aims to disturb, bend, split and ultimately undermine the structures which protect a presumed uniformity of self.
An experimental documentary maker and video artist, Tirtza Even has produced both linear and interactive video work that has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Israel and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight, Rotterdam Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center. Even is currently an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department.