Reinventing the Wheel
2014, HD video, stereo, 3:15
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Reinventing the Wheel is a stop motion animation in which a poem plays out on a gameboard such as seen on TV’s Wheel of Fortune. As the contestants guess at phrases (and prizes), the doll-like hostess who turns their guessed letters becomes a medium for her own message to the host and all you viewers at home.
Reinventing the Wheel is part of a suite of works plotting and re-staging the finite gestural vocabulary of hostesses across a range of genres, periods and cultures. "The body is a powerful tool … to test and accentuate the unknown’s extreme qualities. Political and social turmoils activate … surprising reversals: Elena Knox’s inventive animation ‘Reinventing the Wheel’ sees a Barbie doll enacting a feminist awakening on the set of a game show." |
Screenings/Exhibitions
Gravitational Lensing, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, California 2024 Best of Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Goethe Institut Montréal, Canada 2021 International Video Poetry Festival, Athens 2018 Dublin Feminist Film Festival, Ireland 2017 Off the Wall, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin 2016 FemFlix: Contemporary Art and Feminism, SCA Galleries, Sydney 2016 Screenspace, Melbourne 2015 Runway: Australian Experimental Art, Issue 28 Movement 2015 Beyond Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, UNSW Galleries, Sydney 2015 Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin 2014 Credits Animation: Campbell Drummond Music: Lindsay Webb Links Watch video |