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Introduction
''Hi! I'm making this page for my GWS410 final project.''

My Artist
The artist I chose to study is Stanya Kahn. When researching the UW Madison library database, I was able to find a few books and academic journals referencing Stanya Kahn.

Exhibitions[edit]
Select solo exhibitions include shows at Institute for Contemporary Art/Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for the Arts, MoMA/PS1, New Museum/NY, British Film Institute/London Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Marlborough Chelsea/NY, Weiss Berlin, The Pit/LA, Cornerhouse/Manchester, UK.

Select group exhibitions include Wesleyan Art Gallery, the Walker Art Center, CAM/St. Louis, the Gwangju Biennial (’18), Hammer Museum, New Museum, MOCA/SD, Astrup Fearnely /Norway, Transmediale, The California Biennial (’10). Her collaborative work with Harry Dodge has shown at Elizabeth Dee Gallery/NY, the Whitney Biennial (08), Sundance Film Festival, MOCA/LA, MoMA/NY, ZKM/Karlsrüh, among others. Kahn was a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. She was a contributing writer and actor in the feature film By Hook or By Crook.

Films and videos[edit]
Kahn has made two feature films and multiple shorts and animations, including:


 * 2020 No Go Backs (33 min short, 16mm transferred to 2K)
 * 2011-2017 Stand in the Stream (60 min feature, HD video)
 * 2014 Don’t Go Back to Sleep (74 min feature, HD video)
 * 2012 Happy Song for You (5 min short, HD video)
 * 2010 It’s Cool, I’m Good (35 min short, SD video)

Early work[edit]
From 1988 to 1999 Kahn made multidisciplinary performance works, both solo and collaborative, in San Francisco, New York, and touring nationally and internationally.

Collaborations with Harry Dodge[edit]
In the early 1990s, Kahn met Harry Dodge, a video artist. The two began collaborating in the late 1990's on performance and on the film By Hook or By Crook and continued making short videos until 2008, co-writing, directing and editing. Kahn improvised most of the language in the videos while Dodge often operated the camera. '''Both Dodge and Kahn have backgrounds in performance, utilizing their improvisation skills in front of live audiences. These skills perpetuated their careers in video and film creation, preparing them for the vulnerability that comes along with being in front of the camera.'''

Their 2008 pieces called All Together Now, Nature Demo, and See You Man combine Doge and Kahn's curiosity about what family and culture can look like "posthistory, postcommunication, postperformance, postgender, postself, postother".

'The All Together Now'' piece specifically plays off this theme of a reconstructed social order, depicting the Los Angeles River in a destitute state. It is meant to highlight a "crumbling metropolis" that has been stripped of modern and technological advancements. The slightly disturbing imagery of dead animals lining the roads as Kahn and poets Eileen Myles and Amy Gerstler work together to siphon water, collect batteries, soil, dead fish, and more while their extremely sun damaged faces emphasize the devastation and dehydration. This unsettling image contributes to Dodge and Kahn's alternative interpretations of the LA urban geography, repurposing the Los Angeles River into an "arts laboratory" that offers viewers differing realities within spaces of nature, community and solitude. The original premier of this showing was held in Kahn's personal studio, which was an old garage behind her home.'''

Their comedic videos satirize the awkwardness of art making, video, and gender. Beyond their humor, Kahn and Dodge's videos touch upon the darker seriousness of trauma, privilege, and politics.

'''In their earlier collaborations together, Kahn and Dodge placed a lot of emphasis on the "motivated camera". They wanted to clearly acknowledge the agency and gaze that the camera possesses, providing purpose to both the person who stands or performs in front of the camera while simultaneously giving a voice to the person behind the camera .'''

Among several other museums and events, Kahn and Dodge's work has been shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including:


 * The 2008 Whitney Biennial
 * The 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art
 * Getty Center, Los Angeles
 * Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
 * The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
 * The Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * Sundance Film Festival, Utah

Achievements[edit]

 * 2012 – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
 * 2012 – Jury Prize: Best Short, Narrative Fiction, Migrating Forms Film Festival
 * 2013 – Artadia Award, Los Angeles
 * 2014 CCI Investing in Artists Grant
 * 2015 – San Francisco Art Institute Artist-in-Residence
 * 2017 Acts of Life Residency, Singapore and Manila, NTU CCA & Goethe Institute
 * 2017 Herb Alpert Award nomination (two categories: visual art and film/video)
 * 2018 Herb Alpert Award nomination (film/video)
 * 2018 MacDowell Residency
 * 2020 Anonymous Was a Woman nomination
 * 2020 Herb Alpert nomination (film/video)

References[edit]

 * 1) Jennings, G. (2015). Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art. Berkeley: University of California Press.  doi:10.1525/9780520958135. ISBN  978-0-520-95813-5 .
 * 2) "Stanya Kahn | Artists". VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
 * 3) https://stanyakahn.com/index.php/image/performance-1995-2003/
 * 4) Calif.), J. Paul Getty museum (Los Angeles; Gonzalez, Rita; Seid, Steve; Yonemoto, Bruce (2008). California Video: Artists and Histories. Getty Publications. ISBN  978-0-89236-922-5.
 * 5) Smith, M., Dodge, H., & Kahn, S. (2009). Harry Dodge / Stanya Kahn. BOMB, 108, 22–29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40428260 
 * 6) Richard, Frances (2008-10-01). "Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn". Artforum. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
 * 7) Kushner, Rachel (2008-01-01). "1000 WORDS: HARRY DODGE AND STANYA KAHN". Artforum. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
 * 8) Gregg, A. E. (2010). Artistic intervention in the Los Angeles urban geography: The art practices of Charles Long, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn (Order No. 1476150). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (366106947). url= https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/artistic-intervention-los-angeles-urban-geography/docview/366106947/se-2 
 * 9) Finkel, J. (2008, March 2). Unsettling, in a Funny Sort of Way. New York Times, 13(L). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A175781177/AONE?u=milwaukee&sid=googleScholar&xid=1bb07852 
 * 10) Volk, Gregory (2008). "Spring in Dystopia". Art in America. 5: 158 – via EBSCO.
 * 11) Jennings, Gabrielle, ed. (2015-09-15). Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art. University of California Press. doi:10.1525/9780520958135. ISBN  978-0-520-95813-5 .
 * 12) "Electronic Arts Intermix : Stanya Kahn : Biography". Eai.org. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
 * 13) "Stanya Kahn – 2012 – US & Canada Competition Creative Arts – Film - Video". Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
 * 14) ^ "Stanya Kahn". Artadia. Retrieved 2020-12-16
 * 15) ^  "2015 Artist-in-Residence: Stanya Kahn2015 Faculty Head, Low-Residency MFA Program: Laura Richard - Announcements - Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net. Retrieved 2020-12-16.

External links[edit]

 * Stanya Kahn’s website
 * Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn's Ubuweb video page
 * Vielmetter Los Angeles' page
 * All Together Now Vimeo

Further reading[edit]

 * Beckhurst, Gabriella, Against Inheritance: Stanya Kahn’s No Go Backs, Another Gaze Journal
 * Simmons, William J., Portfolio: Stanya Kahn, Bomb Magazine
 * Bell, Natalie & Burton, Johanna (2017). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. New York, NY: New Museum. ISBN 978-0-915557-16-5.
 * Kahn and Dodge's interview with Michael Smith in Bomb Magazine
 * Phillips, Glenn (2008). California Video: Artists and Histories. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute. ISBN 978-0-89236-922-5.
 * Kushner, Rachel.  ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL; ARTFORUM Vol. 46, Iss. 5, (Jan 2008): 240-243.
 * Rosenthal, Tracy Jeanne. Stanya Kahn. Art in America (1939), 2015, Vol.103 (6), p.130
 * Greg, A. E. (2010). Artistic intervention in the Los Angeles urban geography: The art practices of Charles Long, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn. ProQuest Dissertation Publishing.
 * Tumlir, J. (2021), "Stanya Kahn's Communication Breakdown", Frieze: Contemporary Art and Culture, vol. 216, p. 125, ISSN 0962-0672
 * Jennings, G. (Ed.). (2015). Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art (1st ed.). University of California Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1963294

Categories:


 * Living people
 * American video artists
 * 1968 births