FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn
April 8 to May 13, 2006
Elizabeth Dee is pleased to present the debut solo show by
Los Angeles based video collaborative Harry Dodge and Stanya
Kahn. The exhibition will open on Saturday April 8th with
a reception for the artists from 6-8PM.
For the past five years, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn have
been working collaboratively making performances and videos
which defy easy classification. Giving a nod to comedy and
farce, their work reroutes expectations of spectacle and
storytelling by subverting the devices of television and
film. Influenced as much by Richard Pryor as by Artaud, the
humor in their work is rooted in pathos. Their performative
impulse toward camaraderie is awkwardly borne out through
alienation and a dry wit situated dangerously close to fury.
In the face of what appears to be national catatonia and
depression, Dodge/Kahn respond by driving us away from literal
representation while bringing us uncomfortably close to their
subjects.
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