//Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.//
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//Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.// |
Still Present PastsApril 14 – June 2, 2007 |
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Anne Jin Soo PrestonVideo Installation
"Memory" by Anne Jin Soo Preston
"When I began creating art it was about the simple steps of using pencils, paint, and objects to create something that modeled a real life object. As an adult, I have also experimented with elements of fine art, poetry, and spoken word. However, digital technology has been integral to my current direction artistically, equipping me with a medium that appeals to my desires for innovation, structure, and process. It has also uncovered an approach that continually challenges the construction of my methodology. "As a child, I spent most of my life feeling slightly outside of the majority. Within those parameters, I found myself growing up and accepting the difference by creating a space where I can live comfortably. Reflecting on my own personal life journey has shaped the development and themes of the art I construct in that space.” Memory is part of a larger five-part video installation work in progress entitled Five Stages. It is a video/sound installation focusing on five words: Loss, Communication, Journey, Memory, and Resolution. Often when Korean adoptees talk about their adoption experience, the conversation usually floats through one or all of these key words. Memory is four and a half minutes long and combines still and moving images conjoined together with manipulated traditional Korean drumming which sets the temporality of the piece. Anne Jin Soo Preston is a Korean American Adoptee multimedia artist who resides in Minneapolis, MN. Anne’s art explores identity, memory, communication and the participation of others. Who we are and how we convey our thoughts and ideas with one another while reflecting on the environment that surrounds us - simple sounds and compositions of how we move from place to place and how we fit into society, in terms of context and time.
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