Then I begin to run. I run toward the back and come to the edge of the porch and stop. Then I begin to cry. I can feel where the fish was in the dust. It is cut into pieces of not-fish now, not-blood on my hands and overalls. Then it wasn't so. It hadn't happened then. And now she is getting so far ahead I cannot catch her.
Ann Steuernagel is an experimental video and sound artist. Her visual work accentuates the gestures and quotidian rhythms of her subjects and is accompanied by unique sound designs that blend field recordings, found sound, music, and noise. Steuernagel’s work has been shown at festivals, galleries, and micro-cinemas throughout the United States including Boston, New York, and San Francisco as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Europe. In 1994, Ann established boy running productions and in1999, she won the grand prize at the XX VideoArt Festival in Locarno, Switzerland for her video of the same name. She is the recipient of a Somerville Arts Lottery grant, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Media Fellowship, a LEF grant, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Ann is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University
I work almost exclusively with found footage (educational and industrial films, and home movies). Once I have appropriated the footage I practice the art of montage with great pleasure by colliding disparate images, looping clips and manipulating time. Such techniques accentuate the gestures and quotidian rhythms of my subjects distilling the essence of a time, place or idea. Although a narrative is never explicit one may be implied.
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