Sadie Benning

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Sadie Benning (2011)

Sadie Benning (born April 11, 1973 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is of American nationality and works in the visual arts with video , painting and music . Benning mainly deals with the topics of surveillance , gender transgressions, ambiguities and identities .

life and work

Sadie Benning grew up in Milwaukee and was already well known at the age of 15 for documentary video works that have received various awards in the field of experimental film and are counted among the current of New Queer Cinema . The video camera used at the time was a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera, a gift from Benning's father, the avant-garde filmmaker and documentary filmmaker James Benning . The pixelated images in black and white shaped Benning's style and the videos gave unusually intimate insights into the self-exploration of a homosexual teenager in the American provinces. "I got started partly because I needed different images and I never wanted to wait for someone to do them for me." Benning exhibited at the Whitney Biennale in 1993 at the age of 19 as the youngest person ever invited.

From 1998 to 2001 Benning played in the feminist electropunk band Le Tigre with Kathleen Hannah ( Bikini Kill ) and Johanna Fateman .

Benning graduated from Bard College in 1997 and is today co-chair of its MFA program in the field of film / video.

Benning is known for experimental video and narratives that explore aspects of identity, memory and loss. Since 2007, Benning's work has been increasingly producing colorful, sculptural-looking paintings. The current works of art are difficult to assign to a medium, as they combine abstract painting, sculpture, drawing and photography and at the same time demonstrate musical and cinematic properties such as rhythm and editing. The works each have a distinctive, craftsmanship quality.

A constant companion of Benning's extensive artistic production is the socially critical preoccupation with identity concepts, especially with a view to gender-theoretical approaches.

In January 2017, a review mentioned that Benning sees himself as neither male nor female (compare non-binary gender identity ) and claims the gender-neutral pronoun "they" .

Awards

  • 2005 Guggenheim scholarship
  • 2003-4 Wexner Center for the Arts Visiting Artist Residency Award
  • 2000 National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture Merit Award
  • 1999 Andrea Frank Foundation Fellowship
  • 1994 Grande Videokunst Prize, Karlsruhe
  • 1993 Film / Video grant, Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts
  • 1993 Midwest Regional Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts
  • 1992 Los Angeles Critics Award, Best Independent / Experimental

Filmography

  • Aerobicide (1998) video clip for Julie Ruin, 4 min.
  • Flat is Beautiful (1998) 50 min.
  • German Song (1995) 5 min.
  • The Judy Spots (1995) 11 min.
  • Girlpower (1992) 15 min.
  • It Wasn't Love (1992) 20 min.
  • A Place Called Lovely (1991) 14 min.
  • If Every Girl Had A Diary (1990) 6 min.
  • Jollies (1990) 11 min.
  • Me and Rubyfruit (1990) 6 min.
  • Living Inside (1989) 6 min.
  • A New Year (1989) 6 min.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johanna Burton: Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon . New Museum, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-915557-16-5 , pp. 336 (English).
  2. ↑ Rosanna McLaughlin: Sadie Benning: Reconstructing the World. In: Elephant.art. May 11, 2018, accessed June 20, 2020 .
  3. ^ Philipp Brunner: New Queer Cinema. In: Lexicon of film terms . Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  4. ^ Roberta Smith: Up and Coming: Sadie Benning; A Video Artist Who Talks Through a Keyhole . In: The New York Times . March 28, 1993, ISSN  0362-4331 ( online [accessed March 11, 2017]).
  5. ^ Roberta Smith: At the Whitney, a Biennial with a Social Conscience . In: The New York Times . March 5, 1993, ISSN  0362-4331 ( online [accessed August 27, 2016]).
  6. ^ Bard College. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Caterina Riva: Sadie Benning. In: Frieze.com. January 11, 2017, accessed May 20, 2020 (English; London art magazine); Quote: "Benning, who has been transitioning for a number of years, has rejected gender specific pronouns in favor of the more indeterminate 'them' or 'they'."
  8. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Sadie Benning. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
  9. ↑ A creative laboratory. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Benning, Sadie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video artist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee or Madison