Thursday October 8, 6-9pm

Open Studio with Project Space Resident Sabine Gruffat

In conjunction with Monster in Me: Films by Cecelia Condit

Free

Sabine Gruffat (FR) works in digital art, media installation, and cinema. During her residency, Sabine will be working on an ongoing series of videos that challenge emerging technologies and their effect on a viewer’s body and perception. Sabine will be using VSW’s film and video archive as research material and her work will include a conversation with a practitioner of healing touch.

Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist born in Bangkok, Thailand. She co-founded and co-programs the Cosmic Rays Film Festival in Chapel Hill, NC with filmmaker Bill Brown. Currently she lives in Marseille, France. Sabine Gruffat works on experimental and essay forms and exhibits her work as installations, performances, and single-channel screenings. By actively engaging with both current and outmoded technology, Gruffat ’s work questions our standardized and mediated world.

Sabine Gruffat’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Migrating Forms, the Viennale, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Chicago Underground, Cinéma du Réel, 25FPS, Transmediale in Berlin, and The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.  She has produced digital media works for public spaces as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General, Devotion Gallery, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, and Hudson Franklin in New York. Her recent video works are distributed by the Video Data Bank in Chicago, IL.