https://www.darafriedman.com/words daily 0.75 2025-02-07 https://www.darafriedman.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-12 https://www.darafriedman.com/home daily 1.0 2021-09-16 https://www.darafriedman.com/play daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/ce38a517-a026-4b4d-aa3c-807812ca026e/Jacob%26Chelsey.jpg Play PLAY (Parts 1 & 2) hd color video and black-and-white and color widescreen super 8 mm film transferred to hd video with sound, 29 min. 59 sec.; 15 min. 45 sec., 2013 In Dara Friedman’s PLAY, 17 couples, some real-life couples, others paired by the artist, all of them actors, develop and play out scenes of intimacy. The poetic, intense, and humorous situations grow intuitively from a process of improvisational theater games created for the purpose. With this work Friedman engages with actors and their ability to receive and transmit projected desires while at the same time laying bare theatrical and cinematic devices with Brechtian pleasure. Created during Friedman’s residency at the Hammer, PLAY was filmed at the museum’s Billy Wilder Theater, in a hippie shack in Topanga Canyon, and on the streets of Los Angeles. Together with: Amanda Washko, Dakota Lupo, Fernando Belo, Nana Levitan, Jacob Loeb, Chelsey Holland, Juan Riedinger, Agam Darshi, Sara Hertweck, Read MacGuirtose, Constance Strickland, Megan Rippey, Gabriela Garcia Medina, Paget Kagy, Julian Silver, Smaranda Luna, Gabriel Luna, Joseph Thomas, Cameron Oro, Ashish Dha, Kymberly Harris, Hadley Gallen, Ajala Bandele, Paula Rebelo, Michael Aurelio, Kestrel Burley, Nick Fontaine, Dierdre Lyons, Stephen Butchko, Ciera Adams, Kelsey Milano, and Sandy Simona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/8225ba0f-fc8b-447f-a5e0-ebcb04b7f6b2/AMANDA+%26+DAKOTA7.jpg Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/1623181634098-L9Y6K1GG370PDGMSS7UT/Constance+S8.jpg Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/d584b8aa-5759-4079-8b3b-e1883e509672/SANDY1.jpg Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/d8bcf8a5-5166-4a62-8cd6-0ff362e31915/Fernando%26Nana2.jpg Play https://www.darafriedman.com/dancer daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/1623101394611-6KJ6JGQ1BURMR8TO75E3/Rivkins+correct+TIFF.jpg Dancer DANCER HD BLACK-AND-WHITE VIDEO TRANSFERRED FROM SUPER 16 MM FILM WITH SOUND, 25 MIN., 2011 To think with the body, to dance. Dancer is a film about movement. Inspired partly by the late Pina Bausch (1940-1990) creator of the dance theater movement Tanztheater, Friedman - like Bausch is not necessarily interested in how people moved, but rather, what moves them. To this end, the film observes the dancers' internal monologues, made manifest through self-scripted movement. People dance in the streets of Miami. Outdoors under the sun and moon. The camera moves along with them. Tethered, it orbits each dancer, like another half. Dancer uses street corners as a stage, street lamps as spotlights and storefronts as backdrops. We see ourselves and how we move. The reason to move is what is filmed here. Not on stage but on a patch of street. A patch of stage shared with the flaneur, the tourist and the worker on lunch break. Friedman records the body thinking. Its blood pumping, its breath syncopating and its molecules vibrating. In a world where every thing moves, Friedman and her camera embrace those things that are filled with will and agency. Those things that think with steps and choreography. Together with: Eric Boyd, Chelsea Reyes, Sandra Cenecharl, Afua Hall, Jean-Aurel Maurice, Loren Livick, Munier Zavala, Jeremy Martin, Kristofer Powell, Dwayne Green, Yali Romagosa, Rivkins Christopher, Jillian Mayer, Luis Neira, Nevien Mohamed, Josuée Germain, Lisa Miranda, Michelin Janvier, Vanessa Nicholson, Isis Masoud, Michelle Soto, Michael Joseph, Barbara Alfonzo, Angelina Battle, Equilo Porto, Wayne Krassner, Portia Lange, Nilas Granados, Belaxis Buil, Patrick Fleming, Oscar Caballero, Shannon Taylor, Celia Fonta, Sandra Portal, Ilana Reynolds, José Dominguez, Lucia Aratanha, Priscilla Marrero, Eugeniu Pereu, Kimberly Roberts, Allisen Learnard, Ivonne Batanero, Andy Hermann, Amber Caddington, Samara Rolle, Wesley Wray, Trina Soumare, Sheena Martin, Bill Spring, Katherine Alvarado, Aliro Zapata, Krystle Aguilera, Lina Ferrera, Angeles Cardenas, Jessie Gold, Elizabeth Hart, Lydia Bittner-Baird, Heather Maloney, Nikki Rollason, Annilie Hartley, Carlota Pradera, Jennifer Fain, Effy Polizogopoulos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/ab2daf19-b77f-402e-b647-224cb1ea58c4/Spiderman.png Dancer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/ee7aaa74-0583-4630-9bc8-4fe1af7bfa0a/Loren.jpg Dancer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/ccbf0f58-90cc-46ce-9dc9-3340c55e0ff6/Barbie.jpg Dancer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/5a939bd0-3fa7-47d5-9ba2-4ce99c7a710f/Afua+tiff.jpg Dancer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/7a99fd18-0c40-496e-8c5b-4ae504d9bd01/sandra+.jpg Dancer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/3008f3ee-655e-4917-86ba-8dff01463368/Effy.jpg Dancer https://www.darafriedman.com/government-cut-freestyle daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/1623182354150-HAJ1F8JDK43X627B09BY/Government+Cut+freestyle.00_01_14_02.Still014.jpg Government Cut Freestyle GOVERNMENT CUT FREESTYLE Digital color video transferred from 16 mm film silent, 9 min. 20 sec., 1998 Young people take turns jumping off a pier in South Pointe Park in Miami Beach into Government Cut, the artificial waterway that connects Biscayne Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. The artist shot most of the footage so the divers’ bodies remain tightly constricted within the frame, with the result that the camera bobs and sways gently as they plummet through the air, each time arching over the horizon line. Combined with the film’s slow-motion pacing and the steady, undulating rhythm with which the scenes unfold, Friedman’s camerawork elicits a hypnotic, swooning effect. As in a dream, the viewer experiences a quasi-kinesthetic sensation even as one’s body remains more or less fixed in place. https://www.darafriedman.com/musical daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/c52c53f7-039d-4ea9-b87d-66d5f4979c7b/6MusicalJPEG.JPEG Musical Musical HD color video with sound, 48 min., 2008 Midtown Manhattan is the stage for Musical, a series of spontaneous actions orchestrated by artist and filmmaker Dara Friedman. From dawn to dusk, and occasionally even in the middle of the night, office workers, mothers, schoolchildren, taxi drivers, doormen, tourists, divas, and grandparents break into song, creating unexpected musical events and serendipitous urban moments for all who encounter them. Throughout the course of the project, nearly one hundred individual actions will take place throughout the day and night, weekdays only, in the blocks between Grand Central Station and Central Park South, and between Broadway and Park Avenue. In Musical—her first live, performance-based work—Friedman continues her exploration of universal human experience, focusing on the emotional power of sound and, in particular, its capacity to instantly transform one’s mood or sense of reality. The project plays upon the vitality of city life, especially on the crowded streets of midtown Manhattan, where unexpected and memorable encounters can be a daily occurrence. Friedman, who notes that she wants to “turn the volume up on the song that’s going on in your head as you’re walking down the street,” is interested in blurring the traditional separation between art and life, and between artist and audience. She envisions the project like a series of pebbles thrown into a glassy lake—each performance will cause a ripple effect that lasts for a while, and then the city will return to business as usual. Over the course of several weeks, the nearly one hundred performances that constitute Musical tap into and add to the spirit of the streetscape, entering into the city’s collective consciousness. The locations and times of the performances are unannounced, and each one appears to be unplanned; most passersby do not know that what they are seeing is part of something larger. Public Art Fund and Gavin Brown’s enterprise co-presented the first outdoor screening of Musical in Riverside Park South, as part of Summer on the Hudson, a program of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Musical was premiered in April 2008 by Public Art Fund and presented later that month in the Grand Concourse at Grand Central Terminal, one of the film’s locations. The film was also shown during the month of June at Gavin Brown’s enterprise. Together with: Linnette Harrigan, Jenn Jade Ledesna, Alia Maria Smith, Charlene Lite, Yo Smith Kwon, Ula Einstein, Ashley Fisher, Steven Shear, Anna Baryshnikov, Lara Allen, Natasha Bunzl, Francie Scanlon, Saskia Blaha, Jessica Barr, Yuliya Lanina, Robert Rios, Meleni Smith, Malave Brothaz, Cassandra Kassell, Ben Jurney, Hannah Lindroth, Charlene Chan, Zoey Zucker, Golly Gee, Lauren White, Cassie Newman, Brian Thomas Wilson, Andrew Osarchuk, Grace McLean, Karen Siegel, Sean Paul Gallegos, Andrea Monteiro, Ashley Jones, Jessica Tate, Nick Cordero, Mark Stringham, Jordan Stovall, Emily DeMarinis, Boguslava Dimitrova, Ricardo Suarez, Russell Brown, Sonya Cooke, Francis Anaman, Mellissa Offoha, Zachary Gilman, Velvet Piini, Leslie McDonel, and Julie Troost. press “Turning All of Manhattan Into a Broadway Stage,” The New York Times, September 2007 “Dara Friedman,” Artforum, December 2007 “Reality Show,” The Art Review, January 2008 “Dara Friedman: Musical,” The New York Times, June 2008 “Dara Friedman: Musical,” artcritical, June 2008 https://www.darafriedman.com/the-empress daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/1608140644849-G257EHT9PPWG8GWXM28A/DJI_0022.jpeg The Empress The Empress WITH Gundula Thormaehlen Friedman, concrete, shells, gemstones, oolitic boulders, native plants, 140’ x 90’ 2020 “The labyrinth is a sort of "mind map", a tool, a container for anything that you need it to contain. Possibly a map of the orbital path of Mercury. A structure that quite literally helps with navigating the twists and turns of life. I think it was used as a tool to explain the path to God to the illiterate in the middle ages, although it is much older than that. A prayer that you walk, move through. It's a "living form,” meaning that it is mutable and can change to fit whatever it needs to deal with, in all senses. In the middle of the labyrinth is Nothing-- which is also the ever-expanding Heart. When you follow the path, at the point you feel you are closest to the center, is also the point where you are suddenly the furthest away from it. Not to worry, the path turns again...You don't quite know where you are going ever, and yet you are also not lost. "The Empress" has emeralds buried beneath her, literally.” - DF Together with: Jean Sarmiento of SunKeeper Solutions native plantings,Violet Handforth animations, Cherry Handforth additional cinematography, Patricia Romeu, Amanda Sanfilippo, Stefania Barigelli, Alex Peraza, Bianca Gonzalez, Houston Cypress, Mark Handforth, Michael Jackson, Hagen Rottke of Miami Aerial, Lynn Tisza crystals https://www.darafriedman.com/fight-temple-door daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/5a4b8c32-042c-4914-a188-52f51fd5e04e/headerDSC_7760.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) FIGHT (Temple Door) WORKSHOP, 2019 “It may seem obvious, but in our lives we structure everything as a competition, and we believe that if we want to win, the other party must lose. This is dangerous, and I think it’s completely wrong.” - DF Fight. Retreat. Do nothing. Aiki. "Temple Door" was filmed during a 7-day Artissima Experimental Academy workshop in May of 2019, together with the artist and biologist Daniela Marcozzi and the Aikido master Massimiliano Furlanetto. Artists and art students from Hamburg, Bremen, London, Frankfurt, Milan, and Los Angeles travelled to Venice and were key to the workshop. Participants themselves decided which conflict solutions would be developed and practiced, thus creating a psychodramatic setting in which personal conflicts were acted out – and ultimately allowing the participants to learn how the intensely personal is also supra-individual. INVITATION TO AN ENCOUNTER A meeting of two: eye to eye, face to face. And when you are near, I will tear your eyes out and place them instead of mine, and you will tear my eyes out and will place them instead of yours, then I will look at you with your eyes And you will look at me with mine. (J.L. Moreno, 1914) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/57bfd683-0a68-4de7-8e7d-82c25fe8f2f3/KVHBf_2019_DaraFriedman_TempleDoor_InstallationView_closeup1_Foto-MichaelPfisterer.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/3a70267e-1074-499c-bb7f-377d634e4c5b/2DSC_6692.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/f00fbebe-ee5e-4fb1-8ce9-24414d8fa24f/3KVHBf_2019_DaraFriedman_TempleDoor_InstallationView2_Foto-MichaelPfisterer.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/779bde2f-e1c2-4f21-bb0c-b5c3c4c5df86/4DSC_7238.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/187ab0a8-ff5d-45bb-810a-08fac702d0c9/5Ian_%26_Benjamin_Movement_DaraF_IMG_8901.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/7166d184-37f1-4c46-8099-a3ca7c3d056a/6Ami_Movement_Workshop_DaraF_IMG_8453.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/548ae403-7773-4d9f-911a-66fc1cf2ac02/7Breath_Workshop_DaraF_IMG_9157.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/7f7c97b3-4181-4ea9-93bb-25155746fad3/8DSC_7123.jpg FIGHT (Temple Door) https://www.darafriedman.com/work-1 daily 0.75 2025-11-28 https://www.darafriedman.com/lover daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/1614636710557-TSY7QGQR9N09T57614OQ/IMG_0339.jpg Lover L☿ver High-definition digital video, 2018 L☿ver creates a synesthesia, an experience of a dream to access the vision of a Phallic Woman, an ur-mensch. This work meditates on the opening flute notes of Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, traveling into the flute to reveal it as a shamanic tool, embodying both the feminine and masculine: a wand to be taken in hand and blown that also contains a hollow conduit, a physical passage for vibrational, transformational wind. An experiential poem, L☿ver employs non-objective color fields to dissolve the physical images -the striding woman, the goats bearing witness, a dancer in the kitchen, the flute, the red rocky tunnels- to create a sense of interiority and exteriority, the of waking consciousness of a dream. Exhibited at Galleria Franco Noero. Together with: Izzy Adams & Alberto Hernandez https://www.darafriedman.com/mother-drum daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/ed10c94c-d403-4f88-87f7-bb031a774b29/final+composite.00_05_43_04.Still005.jpg Mother Drum mOTHER DRUM Three-channel synchronized HD color video (HD color video and Super 16 mm film transferred to hd color video) with sound, 14 min. 31 sec., 2019 Mother Drum was filmed throughout the summer of 2015 on the Swinomish Reservation in Washington, Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Idaho, and Crow Agency Reservation in Montana. The genus of this project was a 2014 archaeological dig in downtown Miami, where Friedman is based, which uncovered the remnants of the ancient, aboriginal city of Tequesta. The contemporary city, dense with high-rise developments, had for the most part ignored the history of its native inhabitants. But this sacred ground lies directly beneath the condos that populate its skyline, surrounding this site, encasing it in steel and glass. The following summer, Friedman placed an advertisement on PowWows.com, asking Native American Fancy Dancers and drummers to take part in her project, and traveled to pow wows in the West to meet with those who replied. The film, Mother Drum, is a result of those meetings. The people in the film participated explicitly for Friedman's camera, separate from the larger events taking place at the pow wows. The power of the drum is the central, healing character throughout Friedman’s work. In the artist's words, “the dusty and undeniable metaphysics of the drum embody the Earth’s heartbeat; the beats vibrate a person's bones until they are both with and beyond themselves.” Together with: Cynthia Jim, Jordyn Nomee, Dahyiitihi White, RJ Teveter Jr., Wade Broken Nose, Maxine Broken Nose, Maxx Broken Nose, Maurice Broken Nose, Marques Broken Nose, Ohitika Gibbon, and Delino Cook press “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: DARA FRIEDMAN,” The New York Times, April 2017 “Goings On About Town: Dara Friedman,” The New Yorker, April 2017 “Review: Dara Friedman,” ArtForum, May 2017 “Dara Friedman,” Art in America, June 2017 “Filming Native American Performance Through a Decolonized Lens,” Hyperallergic, May 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/a3661689-fe84-4c77-850b-065b19759402/cindy14.jpg Mother Drum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/062bfeec-9098-4361-8986-0f70d3af3d6e/RIGHT.00_12_25_18.Still032.tif_.jpg Mother Drum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/77924feb-6423-4d0b-9cc1-d7b3f37b5d32/RIGHT.00_09_34_15.Still029.tif_.jpg Mother Drum https://www.darafriedman.com/bim-bam daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/518db7b8-66e1-4c89-8002-0479d20c2408/bim+bam+edit+extended.jpg BIM BAM Bim Bam 16 mm color film installation with two slot-loading projectors, metal armature, cd player, and speakers, 1 min. 1 sec.; 1 min. 12 sec., 1999 In two separate 16 mm film loops, one stacked atop the other, a pair of silhouetted female figures (both the artist) repeatedly step through a threshold, slamming the door in front of or behind them over and over with all their might. When the doors are open, they fill the frame with either yellow or blue light; when they are closed, the frame goes black. The footage was filmed with the camera turned on its side such that the figures appear at a 90-degree angle from the floor. The sound of doors slamming plays on an independent track and is left unsynchronized with the projections, either anticipating or lagging behind the action. The overall impression of the work is of a single, unitary jolt of experience that repeats endlessly. Bim Bam was inspired by a similarly circular rhyme that Friedman’s grandmother used to recite to her at bedtime: There once was a man his name was Bim Bam he had seven sons the seven sons said, “Father tell us a story!” then the man began. There once was a man his name was Bim Bam… Exhibited in the Whitney Biennial 2000. https://www.darafriedman.com/total daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/4160d5f9-abf9-4ee8-98a5-0e03ba4148cf/Sequence+0117-300dpi.jpg Total Total Super 8 mm color film optically reprinted to 16 mm film with optical sound, 12 min., 1997 The artist methodically destroys a domestic interior until all of its contents lie in a pile at the center of the room. The film and the sound play in reverse, so that the room appears to put itself back in order. With a simple technical adjustment, Friedman transforms an expression of rage into a cleansing, restorative act. https://www.darafriedman.com/rite daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/1c7f7794-18b2-406a-904c-6a6505ec0807/rite+composite+edit.jpg Rite rite hd color video with sound, 4 min. 10 sec., 2014 Two women dance to a truncated score of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The storyline of this classic modernist ballet centers on the sacrifice of a young woman who is killed by a group of elder men as part of a ritual commemorating the rebirth of the seasons. The dancers enact this role with vigorous intensity, subverting its implications of passivity and victimization. Together with: Ana Mendez and Constance Strickland https://www.darafriedman.com/video-rite daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-total daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-bim-bam daily 0.75 2021-08-26 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-mother-drum daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-lover daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-the-empress daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-musical daily 0.75 2023-10-15 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-government-cut-freestyle daily 0.75 2021-08-26 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-play daily 0.75 2021-03-02 https://www.darafriedman.com/dichter daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/c8c4ad14-f249-4d1b-b071-4a1288384583/MARIA.mov.00_00_01_19.Still002.jpg Dichter Dichter Four-channel HD color video transferred from 16 film, with sound, 32 min. 13 sec.; 24 min. 10 sec.; 22 min. 51 sec.; 24 min. 46 sec., 2017 In October 2016 the artist Dara Friedman held an open audition in Berlin and actors were asked to bring a poem that was personally meaningful to them. These poems express feelings of frustration, confusion, and anger, but also passion, wonder, and vitality. Sixteen of these poems were recorded later that month in a photography studio in Kreuzber. The artist adapted Jerzy Grotowski’s voice training techniques to fill the speaker’s body with his or her own sound waves. Through this method the entire body speaks, not only the mouth, and there is a clear understanding of the poem. This is a further exploration of “thinking with the body” which the artist has explored through previous works such as “Dancer”, “Musical” and “Play”. Four large vertical projections consisting of four 16mm film tracks transferred to video, run as an endless loop. These four stacks consist of four, short poems each— for a total of 16 poems and are balanced on top of one another as frames of uneven size. These poems appear in a sloppy, checkerboard pattern and each poem “speaks” for the same amount of time that it is silent. Occasionally this results in all 16 actors speaking simultaneously and the effect is a chaotic assault. However, at other times their words and phrases can be heard distinctly and separate from the dim, creating glinting, suspended moments of silver clarity. The artist also presents a series of 16 unique rings, displayed in a vitrine in the small room of the gallery. The simple design of the ring is made to bring the subterranean geological phenomena of the precious metals and gemstones to the wearer’s hand. Together with: Helena Abay, Esther Hafner, Steff Jungen, Daniela Marcozzi, Maria Raisch, Norbert Rost, Roman Schomburg, Katja Tannert, Anna Villinger, Katharina von Harsdorf, Martina Ysker, Anni Sutany, Michael Lämmermann, and Laura Sophia Becker. Poems by: Anna Achmatova, Ingeborg Bachmann, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Charles Bukowski, Erich Fried, Goethe, Mascha Kaléko, Karl Levy, Alda Merini, Christian Morgenstern, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joachim Ringelhatz, W. Wallroth. https://www.darafriedman.com/the-crowning daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/d060f641-156f-4583-a5ae-d674922c73dd/crowning+edit.jpg The Crowning The Crowning HIGH-DEFINITION DIGITAL VIDEO, 2021 Filmed on 35 mm film and transferred to video, the spiral, as both movement and shape, is engaged through the imagery depicted—the elliptical trajectory of the sun as it rises out of and sets back into the ocean; the merging of the human eye and astral bodies—but also formally, as images seamlessly transition across split frames and in subtle shifts of color and sound. With this work, Friedman foregrounds local history and alludes to how, for the Calusa, an Indigenous population of southwest Florida, the pupil was a portal to the soul. In this work, the meanings of the spiral are manifold, speaking to complex notions of nonlinear time, foldings of the past and future into the present. https://www.darafriedman.com/video-dichter daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-whip-whipping-the-wall daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://www.darafriedman.com/whip-whipping-the-wall daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/ae42ccb9-7f53-44dc-ba69-7d79d2e82246/whip+whipping+the+wall+edit.jpg Whip Whipping the Wall Whip Whipping the Wall digital color video, transferred from super 8 mm film, with sound, 15 min., 1998-2002 “When I was maybe 8 I remember playing in the abandoned apartment at the back of my grandmother’s garden in Bad Kreuznach. My cousins and I had found bullwhips in the shed and some shoe polish and we went into the empty apartment and vandalized. The interior walls were covered with wallpaper from the 50s which I smeared as far as I could reach with the black shoe polish. And then lay into the walls with the bullwhip; the wallpaper coming off in big dry flakes. An early act of stepping into the studio.” - DF The artist repeatedly lashes a wall with a bullwhip. Over time, the action begins to shred the wallpaper, revealing the raw plaster lying beneath. Eventually the plater too begins to fall away, exposing bricks. The activity is deliberate, controlled, and contrasted with the sounds of whipping, breathing, and tearing. https://www.darafriedman.com/sunday daily 0.75 2022-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/223057b1-e8ad-473e-8ccd-20a038846b84/_SUNDAY+by+Dara+Friedman+Photo+by+Robin+Hill+%28c%29+HI+RES+%2838%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/84a9c93e-584f-44e9-b9da-164eeb813898/SUNDAY+by+Dara+Friedman+Photo+by+Robin+Hill+%28c%29+HI+RES+%2829%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/5c09e812-ebb4-40a3-a6c0-ee55ace890fc/SUNDAY+by+Dara+Friedman+Photo+by+Robin+Hill+%28c%29+HI+RES+%2819%29.jpg Sunday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/c15b7538-6897-4b3d-9924-49ab4dcb9e62/_SUNDAY+by+Dara+Friedman+Photo+by+Robin+Hill+%28c%29+HI+RES+%287%29.jpg Sunday https://www.darafriedman.com/video-sunday daily 0.75 2022-11-30 https://www.darafriedman.com/video-dancer daily 0.75 2021-08-26 https://www.darafriedman.com/celluloid-cave daily 0.75 2021-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/1629327580916-P1C2R3318R1ZYZK0M3CF/31bHxkkezBL.jpeg Celluloid Cave https://www.darafriedman.com/video-the-crowning daily 0.75 2021-08-19 https://www.darafriedman.com/ashleytestpage daily 0.75 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f89e6611ccfe2239ab9c0eb/5a4b8c32-042c-4914-a188-52f51fd5e04e/headerDSC_7760.jpg Ashleytestpage THE CROWNING HIGH-DEFINITION DIGITAL VIDEO, 2021 Filmed on 35 mm film and transferred to video, the spiral, as both movement and shape, is engaged through the imagery depicted—the elliptical trajectory of the sun as it rises out of and sets back into the ocean; the merging of the human eye and astral bodies—but also formally, as images seamlessly transition across split frames and in subtle shifts of color and sound. With this work, Friedman foregrounds local history and alludes to how, for the Calusa, an Indigenous population of southwest Florida, the pupil was a portal to the soul. 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