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Alter Space
March 28 - April 11, 2015Info
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http://alterspace.co/
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(415) 735-1158
Reception
March 28, 2015 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Demons in the Dungeon is a new installation by Artist-In-Residence, Sietske Tjallingii.
Tjallingii has been working in Alter Space’s Jail Cell studio for the past month and a half to create a new exhibition that is an improvisational sketch for film. Taking a cue from the space’s history as a BDSM location, Tjallingii plays with notions of master and slave in her elaborate and darkly comical performance, sets, and costumes. Influenced by German expressionist cinema, the black and white staging includes a video projection that depicts a series of impressions. Tjallingii acts as the main character, a jogger who is perpetually bound to a treadmill and haunted by demons in the form of a horse-whip-lady, a giant spider, and a bat. The jogger’s deliverance from these hauntings is bleak as her actions come shrouded by a muted bravery.
Sietske Tjallingii is an award-winning Dutch experimental filmmaker and performance artist born in 1973 and raised in the Netherlands. Tjallingii attended the acclaimed Rietveld Art Academy. Since 2010, she lives in San Francisco with artist husband Eric Staller and their daughter. She is currently producing an interactive series of playfully provocative short films about roadside Americana, for which she was awarded a grant from the Dutch Art Fund. Tjallingii has been featured in the Outstanding Films from International Festivals program at NYC MoMA and shows at numerous venues worldwide, including the Berlinale and Rotterdam International Film Festivals (which commissioned her to create a 2008 homage to the Coen Brothers). The Dutch Film Museum distributes a compilation DVD of Tjallingii’s work, and she is featured in a key profile in a book about Dutch experimental filmmakers.
