Susan Giles
Panzoomtilt

Panzoomtilt is a six-channel video installation that was previously exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago in association with Universal Experience curated by Francesco Bonami. The installation categorizes more than fifty hours of travel video footage into sequences of motion. Collected from travelers ranging from package tourists to long-term backpackers, they have been edited into sequences of pans, zooms, and tilts. The disparate travel sites thus become unified sequences of motion that deemphasize the individual locations and undermine the personal narrative, disassociating the images from context and memory.

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Susan Giles lives and works in Chicago, IL. Giles has exhibited solo exhibitions at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY, and the South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Indiana. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Cheekwood Museum , Tennessee , Renaissance Society, Chicago , Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Kunsthalle Goppingen, Germany . Her most recent solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, a life size recreation of a portion of the Eiffel Tower , was reviewed in the May 2005 issue of Art Forum.

Susan Giles
Here and There
Exhibition Dates: Oct. 25 - Dec. 7, 2002

Here and There,
2002 double DVD projection
TRT: 8:00

Vedanta Gallery is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of Chicago based artist Susan Giles. Giles has been creating video work for the past two years that centers around the shortcomings and complexities of language. This body of work was initially spurred by the artist's struggle to communicate in the Indonesian language while studying in Bali. Her subsequent videos involved dissecting and manipulating monologues that explored the many aspects of conversation including the pauses and verbal markers that enhance meaning in everyday speech.

Susan Giles' latest exhibition consists of two main video projects exploring the notion of foreignness. A double video projection titled Here and There juxtaposes video footage taken from two different tourist destinations. Images of a volcano in Bali play concurrently with images of downtown Chicago. The two distant locations often appear formally identical, as shapes and patterns in the environment correspond, and both places' identities gradually overlap. The second installaton consists of four monitors depicting several individuals reciting all of the foreign words they could recall. The result is a hodgepodge of disassociated words spoken without inflection or emotion, humorously addressing one's inability to communicate through the barriers of disparate languages.

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Susan Giles lives and works in Chicago. She is currently participating in a two person exhibition with Jeff Carter titled Wavespace at Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri-St.Louis curated by Barry Blinderman. Recently she has exhibited in Chicago! Chicago! Video Art >From the Windy City at The Cheekwood Museum in Nashville, TN; Detourism at The Renaissance Society in Chicago; Art in Motion II at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and Video Ergo Sum at the Kunsthalle Goppingen, Germany.