Judith Price
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mentor
instructor
Judith Price has worked as an interdisciplinary artist for 20 years. Her body of work includes performance pieces, performative videos, video installations and site-specific installations. She has also brought electronic technology into her performance works, exploring the interface between the human body and computers. She merges her parallel backgrounds in visual arts and modern dance to expand her interest in embodiment and body intelligence as a means of communication in art. Her works have been shown in Vancouver, Victoria, Montreal and on the Internet.
Judith has been an instructor in the Visual Arts Program at Camosun College in Victoria, B.C. since 1988. The courses she teaches include interart (performance and video), sculpture, painting and film.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Elements of interactivity and collaboration are common in much of my work over the past 20 years, especially in the structure of the work, whether performance, video, or installation.
Interactivity, for me, has its source in my desire for viewers to have an embodied experience with artwork; to actively contribute to the outcome of a performance, to actively experience the way in which their presence alters the relationships of objects to one another and to space.
Much of my work in performance and video has involved collaboration, often with people who are not visual artists. I work with them in advance, and they contribute ideas to the form and content of the piece, resulting in a richness and depth of shared experience that inhabits the finished work.
My interest in video as an art form originates in its ability to simultaneously seduce and distance. My video pieces are non-narrative, functioning more as visual poetry; focusing more on non-verbal communication and on video’s ability, integrally, to create environments as elusive and illusory as those of painting.
The content of my work varies over time and arises from my interests, both internal and external. Some pieces raise social or political issues. Some evolve from personal experience or raise questions of identity. Some have literary sources and some have primarily formal concerns.
Two elements are strongly present in my work: a sense of playfulness and the use of sites outside the gallery space. I am very drawn to create work that is site-specific.
My recent use of electronic technology in performances, coupled with my ongoing exploration of the body in motion and gesture has initiated an interest in current issues of embodiment and disembodiment in visual art.
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