Community producer James Gero visits the Skin Ego exhibit at the Burlington City Arts Firehouse Gallery.
From the BCA exhibit description:
Skin Ego
Rebecca Weisman uses many mediums/media in site-specific installations and films, often self-producing shows in unlikely venues and locations: the Oregon desert, vacant urban buildings, a Vermont mountaintop, her home. She has shown work nationally and internationally, most recently Tap Lessons, Garner Arts Center NY; An Order, a site-specific group installation at the defunct Saint Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington VT; Glitch, a multi-media video installation at University of Cincinnati; Misbookings, an intervention performed at the Deleuze, Guattari, and the Arts conference at King’s College, Ontario; Excavations, a site-specific sound and architectural projection at the Design Center, Goddard College; and Ethan Allen Nights, a film and sculptural installation at McCarthy Art Center.
She has published articles in Namarupa magazine, C Magazine, and the International Journal of Zizek Studies and in 2014 presented a paper on “Dark Ecology and the Abject” at the International Zizek Studies conference, Cincinnati. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Reed College and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. Weisman has taught courses in video art, installation, and conceptual art and art history at Saint Michael’s College, Burlington College, University of Vermont, and the Global Center for Advanced Studies.
Robopoems
Tina Escaja (b. 1965, Zamora, Spain) (aka Alma Perez) is a Spanish-American digital artist, poet, activist, and feminist scholar based in Burlington, VT. Escaja received a B.A. in Spanish Philology at Universitat de Barcelona in Spain, as well as a Ph.D. in Latin American and Spanish Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. In 2003, Escaja won the Hispano-American Poetry Award “Dulce María Loynaz,” and received a special mention in the Literary International Competition “Jirones de Azul” in 2006.
Using the pseudonym Alm@ Pérez, Escaja’s poetry and digital works have been exhibited internationally including the Museum Wolf Vostell Malpartida de Cáceres and Matadero Madrid—both in Spain—as well as locally at venues including the Flynndog Gallery in Burlington, VT. In 2015, she served as Maker-in-Residence at the Generator, Burlington, VT, where she designed many of the robots included in her Robopoem series. Currently, she is Professor of Spanish and Director of the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Vermont.
