my name is niknaz

Urban Liminal

Urban Liminal invite

Installation view

Installation view with someone watching

Installation view with Caitlyn Jean’s toilets in the background

Still from Liminal, The Life of Josie H.

Still from Lorem Ipsum Dolor

Still from TheCityEscapesNothing

Still from Journey, a collaborative video with Zachary Wager Scholl

Caitlyn Jean and Niknaz Tavakolian both create work that operates outside of social boundaries defining personal identity. Tavakolian’s split-screen vignettes focus on the tensions that arise within the politics of gender and nationality and the way our experiences of such tensions are mediated through technology and urban living. Caitlyn Jean’s stop-motion video and charcoal drawing installations challenge the boundaries of artistic medium as a metaphor for the fluidity of postmodern urban identity. Urban Liminal brings together five new video works that meditate on the site of social structure that is the urban landscape.
Tabitha Minns, Curator

Work includes, Liminal, The Life of Josie H., Journey, TheCityEscapesNothing, and Lorem Ipsum Dolor.

Installation images courtesy of Caitlyn Jean