Legna Rodríguez Iglesias interviewed Tana Oshima.

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Text is published in Rialta.

Tana Oshima offers interesting responses to Legna Rodríguez Iglesias‘s questions.

A veces me gusta ir a lugares inhóspitos, sí. Con el objetivo de narrarlos, pero la narración que viene después de visitar esos lugares es sólo una vía para canalizar una exploración que es más emocional que intelectual. Me atraen los márgenes, los lugares marginales habitados por personas marginales. Hablo de los márgenes en un sentido social. Me atraen porque me muevo con cierta facilidad entre esas personas y me gusta comunicarme con ellas. Me atraen los márgenes porque una vez estuve ahí, por motivos distintos a la mayoría de los que están ahí, y siento mucha empatía por esas personas.

Elizabeth Withstandley’s Searching for the Miraculous

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A trilogy of video-installation works by Withstandley that uses Bas Jan Ader‘s final work, “In Search of the Miraculous”, as an entry point for a new experiential journey. The exhibition opens tonight at AC Institute.

Searching for the Miraculous is a trilogy of video/installation works that uses Bas Jan Aders final work, “In Search of the Miraculous”,  as an entry point for a new experiential journey. The works explore identity, time, transcended experiences, and the romantic vision of a quest for something better.  The project uses video, audio, music and sculptural elements to create a contemporary version of the trilogy. It starts with  a cinematic short, then a connected journey between two people and finally concludes with a journey of a pair of glass jars floating across the sea.

Elizabeth Withstandley is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She is one of the co-founders of Locust Projects, a not-for-profit art exhibition space, in Miami, FL. 

Her work is routed in conceptual art taking the form of video installations and photographic series. Artifacts, individuality, and music are all central themes in her work. In addition to exhibiting her own work she has organized a number of exhibitions including Smoke & Mirrors at the Torrance Art Museum, 20/20 at Locust Projects and a the 2019 residency project, work from artists at The Curfew Tower.