ERICA SCHREINER // VIDEO + PERFORMANCE

 
 

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Artist Statement

I make experimental, feminist video art. Filming on VHS, while performing before the camera, I invent worlds that are ethereal, sensual and ritualistic. I combine video and performance to tell stories using symbols and allegory. 

My visual language is constructed from carefully studied symbols like butterflies, fruit, flowers, eggs and personal objects, which experience a metamorphosis. 

Investigating the complexity of femininity through the female gaze, I urge the viewer to consider alternate realities from the current cultural paradigm and to locate peace within a technologically inundated and capitalistic/patriarchal culture.

Themes in my work involve healing from trauma, concepts of god, the need to return to nature, and love. Overarching artistic goals are to connect to the viewer through personal vulnerability and thus to aid in healing.

Influenced by Andy Warhol, Ani Difranco, the Riot Grrrl music movement and Czechoslovak New Wave cinema, I found my personal aesthetic through shooting on a VHS camera in my bedroom alone. I explore performance as a medium when a live audience is not present, but treated cinematically, through the process of editing and playback.

Beginning in 2005 with MySpace mini-series The Skye Project, I have since completed 106 works of performance-based VHS video art.

 

 
 

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Select interviews/Press:

In conversation with Matthew Silver, 2024

Whitehot Magazine review, 2024

Blowpop! with Miles Pflanz on XPizza Radio, 2023

CTG with Aria, 2022

Talking to Ghosts podcast interview, 2021 

Interviewed by Lloyd Daylight, 2021

with Sergio Satélite at Bowery Poetry Club, 2019 

In conversation with Matthew Silver, 2019

Radio Free Brooklyn, 2019

Fixe Magazine, 2012