Featured Artist: Candice Breitz

So, I had an assignment to pick an artist from our book IceCream and teach the class about this artist for an hour. This seemed pretty daunting at first but as I got to researching, I realized that I could do this. I chose Candice Breitz, who is a really well educated, impressive artist. She has had a ton of shows displaying her video installations, which are based on pop culture/hollywood. Her website is amazing and simple. You can see all of her work and watch the videos directly from the webiste! Her installations are funny and entertaining, but if you look and read further into her work, you will see that there is a deeper meaning.

"In making these works, the artist invited a series of fans of the respective icons to each re-perform an entire album by Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley or John Lennon. In each of the final installations, the filmed performers re-sing the relevant album in synchronization with each other, their performances merging into a kaleidoscope of voices, facial expressions and body language, to constitute a diverse collective interaction with a pop icon"



"I’m effectively surveying a community of consumers who are in dialogue with the music of a particular pop star, and testing the range of identifications that one pop star can generate. The diversity is extraordinary”

-Candice Bretiz