Nationality American Music director Terminal USA | Education Bard College Movies Irma Vep, The Last Breath | |
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada People also search for Brian Burman, Flawless Sabrina, Zackary Drucker, Jon Moritsugu | ||
Michelle Handelman (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an American video installation artist, filmmaker, photographer, performer, writer and professor.
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Awards and honors
She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow.
Education
She received her MFA from Bard College and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an associate professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Works
Handelman's recent four-channel video installation "Dorian, a cinematic perfume" is based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. It features the bio-fem drag queen Sequinette as Dorian, Armen Ra as Lord Henry, K8 Hardy as Sybl, Quin Charity as Basil and Mother Flawless Sabrina as Dead Dorian. It features music by Lustmord, Armen Ra, Nadia Sirota, Vincent Baker, and Stefan Tcherepnin. "Dorian, a cinematic perfume" has been exhibited at Participant, Inc., NYC; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin; Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, China; Dirty Looks Screening Series and Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia. Handelman created the live multimedia performance "The Laughing Lounge" for PERFORMA 05 the first biennial of visual art performance. BloodSisters (1995) her feature documentary on the San Francisco leather dyke scene is distributed by the Tribeca Film Institute's Reframe Collection
Handelman's fiction can be found in Coming Up, the world's best erotica (Richard Kasak books, New York) Herotica 3 edited by Susie Bright (Down There Press, San Francisco) and her article, The "Media Conspiracy Against the Developing Mind", co-written with Monte Cazazza is published in Apocalypse Culture 2 (Feral House Press, Los Angeles)
