Second Skin: Performing Identities

This series of exhibitions and performances examines how social, gender, and racial identity is reflected and constructed through the use of costumes, ritual objects, and performances. How does assuming a character, creating a persona, or putting on a mask, costume, or uniform conceal or reveal an identity?

Vladmaster Presents

Performance:  Friday May 2, 4:30 & 5:30pm
Cossitt Amphitheater, 906 N. Cascade Avenue (map)

Free and open to the public

Vladmasters are handmade View-Master™ reels designed, photographed, and hand-assembled by artist Vladimir. For a Vladmaster performance, every attendee is given a viewer and set of disks and then led through the story by a soundtrack featuring music, narration, sound effects, and ding noises to cue the change from image to image.

Visit the artist's website:  www.vladmaster.com

About the Artist:

Vladimir lives in Portland, Oregon where she projects movies at the Northwest Film Center. She is a Scorpio. She has been hand-making and selling her own Vladmaster disks since May of 2003. In April of 2004 she debuted her first performance of the Lucifugia Thigmotaxis Vladmaster set at the Portland Documentary and Experimental (PDX) Film Festival. Since then she has travelled across the US and the UK with her performances, including shows at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Flaherty Film Seminar in New York, the Flat Pack Film Festival in Birmingham Uk, the MadCat Film Festival in San Francisco and the Olympia Film Festival.

Vladimir also makes and shows Super8 films with the Portland Super8 collective the Tiny Picture Club. She occasionally mass produces form letters and has created her own line of scratch-it Vladland lottery tickets. She enjoys riding her bicycle, building electronic circuits, and the very early films of Rene Clair.
(From the artist's website)