Erika SUDERBURG is a filmmaker and writer. She is co-editor with Michael Renov of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, editor of Space Site Intervention: Situating Installation Art, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video co-edited with Ming-Yuen S. Ma was published in 2013.
Suderburg's work has been exhibited in festivals, museums, on television, on the sides of big walls, on a hot air balloon and in galleries including: Pacific Film Archives-Berkeley, Millennium Film Workshop (NY); Capp Street Projects (San Francisco); MoMA (NY); American Film Institute (Los Angeles); MoCA (Los Angeles); Kunstlerhaus (Stuttgart); Grazer Kunstverein (Austria); Collective for Living Cinema (NY); Fukai International Video Biennale (Japan); New Langton Arts (San Francisco); International Video Festival (Bonn); Long Beach Museum of Art; American Academy in Rome; Simon Watson Gallery (New York); Trial Balloon Gallery (NY); Mix Mexico (Mexico DF); FilmForum (Los Angeles); Cohan & Leslie Gallery (NY); Getty Museum (Los Angeles); Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard (Paris).
Her freshly finished film Wunderkammern: The Private Life of Objects examines acquisition, objects and what a contemporary Wunderkammern might reveal about desire, knowledge, materiality and memory. Fabricated out of objects contained in an existent fifty-year-old Cabinet of Wonders, Wunderkammern: The Private Life of Objects leaves no object untouched, no dust mite comfortable and no item microscopically unexamined. Organized alphabetically for sanity's sake the film activates a series of associations, arcane, eccentric, playful and expansive. Ever unfolding, yet carefully constructed to facilitate your perusal, Wunderkammern: The Private Life of Objects takes you on tangents yet to be imagined, springs coils tightly wound, unnerves the inanimate and vitalizes cultural detritus. You will look at the objects that surround you with a newfound appreciation, animist suspicion, perspectival acumen and a regained sense of wonder. We invite you to get lost with us.
She began making experimental film and video in 1978 and has made eight feature length films and myriad short films and videos that have been exhibited in Korea, Japan, Greece, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, France, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, Qatar, China, Holland, Egypt, Sweden, the Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, and the UK. Her work is distributed and published by System Yellow in Los Angeles and V-Tape in Toronto.
She has been on the faculties of the California Institute of the Arts, Art Center (Pasadena); the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (NY) and the Otis-Parsons School of Art & Design (Los Angeles).
She is currently a faculty member at the University of California, Riverside in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.
Erika Suderburg lives and works in Los Angeles (USA).
Suderburg's work has been exhibited in festivals, museums, on television, on the sides of big walls, on a hot air balloon and in galleries including: Pacific Film Archives-Berkeley, Millennium Film Workshop (NY); Capp Street Projects (San Francisco); MoMA (NY); American Film Institute (Los Angeles); MoCA (Los Angeles); Kunstlerhaus (Stuttgart); Grazer Kunstverein (Austria); Collective for Living Cinema (NY); Fukai International Video Biennale (Japan); New Langton Arts (San Francisco); International Video Festival (Bonn); Long Beach Museum of Art; American Academy in Rome; Simon Watson Gallery (New York); Trial Balloon Gallery (NY); Mix Mexico (Mexico DF); FilmForum (Los Angeles); Cohan & Leslie Gallery (NY); Getty Museum (Los Angeles); Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard (Paris).
Her freshly finished film Wunderkammern: The Private Life of Objects examines acquisition, objects and what a contemporary Wunderkammern might reveal about desire, knowledge, materiality and memory. Fabricated out of objects contained in an existent fifty-year-old Cabinet of Wonders, Wunderkammern: The Private Life of Objects leaves no object untouched, no dust mite comfortable and no item microscopically unexamined. Organized alphabetically for sanity's sake the film activates a series of associations, arcane, eccentric, playful and expansive. Ever unfolding, yet carefully constructed to facilitate your perusal, Wunderkammern: The Private Life of Objects takes you on tangents yet to be imagined, springs coils tightly wound, unnerves the inanimate and vitalizes cultural detritus. You will look at the objects that surround you with a newfound appreciation, animist suspicion, perspectival acumen and a regained sense of wonder. We invite you to get lost with us.
She began making experimental film and video in 1978 and has made eight feature length films and myriad short films and videos that have been exhibited in Korea, Japan, Greece, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, France, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, Qatar, China, Holland, Egypt, Sweden, the Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, and the UK. Her work is distributed and published by System Yellow in Los Angeles and V-Tape in Toronto.
She has been on the faculties of the California Institute of the Arts, Art Center (Pasadena); the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (NY) and the Otis-Parsons School of Art & Design (Los Angeles).
She is currently a faculty member at the University of California, Riverside in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.
Erika Suderburg lives and works in Los Angeles (USA).