Sadie Benning was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1973, and grew up in Milwaukee, WI. She received her M.F.A. from Bard College in 1997.
Her videos have been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, universities and film festivals since 1990 with select solo screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, among other venues.
Her work is in many permanent collections--including those of the Museum of Modern Art, The Fogg Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center--and has been included in the following group exhibitions: Whitney Biennial (2000 and 1993); Building Identities, Tate Modern (2004); Remembrance and the Moving Image, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (2003); Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art (2002); American Century, Whitney Museum of Modern Art (2000); Love’s Body, Tokyo Museum of Photography (1999); Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art, Museum of Modern Art Oxford (1996-7); and Venice Biennale (1993). Her two-channel video installation Play Pause (2006) premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2007 as part of a solo exhibition of video, paintings, and wall sculptures, Suspended Animation. Play Pause has also been exhibited at Dia: Chelsea (2007). Benning has shown her drawings and paintings in group exhibitions at Threadwaxing Space (1996), Orchard Gallery (2004?), and the White Columns Annual (2007). In 2007, Orchard Gallery presented Form of…A Waterfall, a solo exhibition of Benning’s abstract drawings, sculpture, video installation, and “play/pause” records.
(En este link se encuentra la discografía del grupo así como links para bajarlos: http://www.vagos.fm/showthread.php?t=74373)
Benning is a former member and cofounder, with Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman, of the music group Le Tigre. She has received grants and fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, Andrea Frank Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and Rockefeller Foundation. Awards include Wexner Center Residency Award in Media Arts, National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture Merit Award, Grande Video Kunst Award, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Award. She currently lives in Chicago.
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El diario de una chica.
Un cortometraje a modo de confesionario. Una chica revela que es lesbiana. Es complicado "salir del closet" y aún más hacerlo frente a miles de personas. Me gustó mucho el montaje. La manera en la que sustituyó los típicos y aburridos intertítulos por objetos alusivos mucho más interesantes, como los kisses y las barbies. Pero no es una chica cualquiera, es una adolescente y esta información es básica y funciona como hilo conductor del cortometraje. Una adolescente, confundida, asustada, rebelde, perdida, soñadora. Una adolescente que busca ser aceptada y pertencer a un grupo. Ella va aún más lejos, porque no sólo quiere pertencer sino que quiere liderear al grupo. Demuestra con su trabajo que es capaz de mostrarse tal como es en escencia sin miedo a ser rechazada y eso ha debido ser un gran ejemplo para otras chicas adolescentes y no tan adolescentes que sentían miedo de aceptarse tal como son. Ella promueve la pluralidad, la diversidad y eso, a principios de los noventas sigue siendo bastante admirable.
“Descubrí que podría ser tan rara (queer) como quería serlo.” - Sadie Benning
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