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What Is My Name, Sister?
(includes Roghieh in the opening scene)
A video by Alysse Stepanian
2011. 24:57 min. color. stereo. HDV. 16:9. 1 or 2 channel projection.
This video presents a series of scenes culled from a dream journal that I kept shortly after leaving post-revolutionary Iran in 1979.
T=2.7K (Time = 2,700 seconds = 45 minutes). Live performance: October 2008. Center For Contemporary Arts. Santa Fe. New Mexico. USA. Video by Alysse Stepanian for a multimedia performance with computer, live trumpet and flugelhorn, and computer-interactive devices.
72 Hours: Acrobat’s Little Leap. I deprived myself of sleep for 70 hours and documented a set of activities in random intervals. The title of the piece was inspired by an experiment conducted by the US military, under the code name “Acrobat’s Leap”…