THE CRESSIDA
PROJECT
The Cressida Project will
include an approximately 25-minute video and related prints or paintings
and sculptures.
The
Cressida Project video will involve two main story lines
influenced by Shakespeare, Homer, and other sources. Scenes or images
involving confinement, power, control and sadism, interpretation,
transmission of knowledge, reproduction, and escape, will implicate
questions about identity, trauma, safety, and transformation—if
not within a single lifetime, sometimes through succeeding generations.
This experimental art video will employ vivid imagery, special effects,
and original sound art and music.
This
site will be updated as additional pieces are completed; please check
back.
HELEN'S STORY
In
approximately the year 2056, a young woman is abducted and finds herself
in a low cell
in a remote Islamic nation. Her only window is barred with
sharpened
musical instruments;
her ceiling is laminated with pages from great literature.
One
day, the
pages fall open and
objects drop out.
Works:
Helen's
Currency
6-15/16
x 3”, inkjet print with ready-made hologram
The
President
Portrait
of the President of the Assembly of Emirs, ca.
2054
Helen's Ceiling
(Waking)
4
x 8' panel laminated with pages from Shakespeare facsimile First Folio,
Gary
Panter's Jimbo in Purgatory, and other literature
Helen's
Ceiling (Dreaming)
Similar
to Waking, but with more pages, some printed on acetate,
and
with
holes and assorted objects
Helen's
Door
3
x 3' door with hardware and wood-burned designs.
Helen's
Find
Helen's
Stash
Helen's
Window
3
x 3' window barred with mutilated, sharpened, and engraved oboes,
flutes,
etc.
ANGELA'S
STORY
A
middle-aged woman lawyer, single and childless, is immersed in the
largest transaction
of her career. She's alone working late in her office one night, when
the
lights go out. She
walks through the blackness and encounters a bright, devastating
vision.
Works:
Angela's
Transaction
Large painting based on a 17-page flow chart of a legal
transaction
Claudia's
Babies
Installation with 24,000 plastic "king cake"
babies
CRESSIDA'S
STORY
A
young woman walks off a cliff.
WORKING
DOCUMENTS & OTHER INFORMATION
Drawings:
Helen's
Cell
Helen's
House
Drawings
for Helen's Window and Door
Cell
Set Design
Materials:
Instruments
for Helen's Window
MAP
OF THE U.D.I. E.
Personnel
Video
Credits
Stills
from The Cressida Project
Installation
Photos
Production
Photos
Exhibition
History
Artist's Statement
The Cressida Project website is part of the C-Cyte website
(www.c-cyte.com). All artistic,
literary, and other works and design within the Cressida Project website were created by Carolyn Sortor, © 2004-05, except as
otherwise noted; all other works within the C-Cyte website were created
by Carolyn Sortor, © 2003 or thereabouts, except as otherwise
noted. Once you have reached this page, by clicking anywhere on this website
other than to view the Terms of Use, you agree to such terms.
Please e-mail any questions or comments relating to The Cressida
Project to carolyn at c-cyte dot com.