Diana Heise
Duration is a single channel digital video and an experiment in database structure that explores the effects of militarism. The piece uses moving images that were photographed on gun missions during the Vietnam War. With inspiration from structuralist film, the images in the video are organized by the length of time that the camera was recording, the moments between on and off. As I was interviewing members of the military, I found that there is a language of nomenclature and equipment terms that were commonly used. To further explore this system, the sound design is a repeated alphabetical list of helicopter names.
Duration, 8mm film transferred to DVD, single channel digital video, color, sound, 6.5 minutes, 2009
Diana Heise’s artistic practice investigates violence, fear and peace through the use of video, photography, performance, installation, film, writing, sculpture, public intervention and sound. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, the Film Anthology Archives, Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, the George Eastman House, Des Moines Art Center and Cinemazzurro, Ancona Italy. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, a Performance Art Fund Grant from the Franklin Furnace Inc. as well as a Presidential Fellowship at the American University in Cairo. Diana is currently a resident artist at The Studios, Inc. in Kansas City, MO. She holds an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY and a BA in Art History from Vassar College. http://www.dianaheise.com/