Visiting with Nada Gordon- Feminism, Poetry Film, Sleepwalkers

This post is happening much later than our actual meeting, so sorry for the belatedness! Nada is a lovely and illuminating figure. Her videos takes us on trips through histories of gender and hypnosis in cinema, as well as create a space which is still haunting in itself. We met on a hot summer afternoon at Pratt Institute, and had a lovely chat and screening of works. One thing I learned-is that as a video artist, I need to get out a lot more to keep up with all the amazing shows and information that Nada shared with me. The cross-section of archival material, language play and genre in film came up as themes that we both shared an interest in. Also, when oftentimes I feel quieted as the silent feminist in the the room-I felt comfortable and encouraged to explore and share ideas about female subjectivity and gender in our work. Nada grew up in the shadow of hypnotherapy, while I had an analyst’s couch and psychopharmacology in in my backyard, which points to our separate obsessions with hypnosis and the ethereal (in Nada’s videos) and psychoanalysis and the body in my own work. Nada comes out of a poetry and literary background, which keeps the conversation lively and the potential for experimentation across mediums open. Looking forward to seeing Nada’s work in the Projection series in the Fall!

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