Frances Stark-Research for Archival Perspective


Frances Stark is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, whose work centers on the use and meaning of language, and the translation of this process into the creative act She often works with carbon paper to hand-trace letters, words, and sentences from classic works by Emily Dickinson, Goethe, Hnery Miller, Samuel Beckett, and others to explore the voices and interior states of writers. She uses these hand-traced words, often in repetition, as visual motifs in drawings and mixed media works that reference a subject, mood, or another discipline such as music, architecture, or philosophy.
The feature-length video work My Best Thing, stems from an anonymous chat site Stark encountered online. The dialogues between Stark and her chat partners are represented by generalized, cartoon avatars that speak the chat transcripts. The subject matter of these chats range from art and the creative process, to sex and anonymity.The video’s form and content show how the new modes of online communication allow for both greater intimacy and anonymity, giving rise to new kinds of behaviors and relationships.

My Best Thing


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